FPL Fortress18 Jun 2025

2024/25 Season Review: Awards, Breakout/Flop XIs, Lessons Learned, and More

Dear listeners, it’s that time of year again—welcome to the final episode of our 2024/25 season, our illustrious Season Review! We recognize that Gameweek 38 in fact happened over three weeks ago and apologize for keeping you waiting until now—but this also means that we’ve had more time to mull over what’s happened this season, allowing us to refine our reflections to deeper profundities. We start off with the superlatives, and this time, for the thrill of it all, we’ve prepared them without telling the other who/what we’ve picked. Then, we nominate eleven players who have really broken out this season, before highlighting their antitheses in the Flop XI—stunningly, one unfortunate player is a repeat from last year. Finally, in our Lessons Learned, we chew on the challenges of balancing FPL with our busy lives, the value of long-term planning even at the tail end of the season, and the virtues of never buying Diogo Jota or Dominic Calvert-Lewin ever again. And did you REALLY think we weren’t going to sneak in an economics reference? In thought-provoking fashion, Jacob astutely analogizes the debate between taking hits vs. saving transfers to the choice between a stable index fund or an actively managed mutual fund. Wishing everyone a healthy little detox from the world of FPL, before we get right back into things in August!

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Episoder(132)

GW 36: Purging Palmer and Seeking Saka

This past gameweek, big things happened at both the top and bottom of the Premier League table, with Arsenal taking a massive step toward that elusive title and Tottenham pulling themselves out of the...

5 Mai 28min

GW 35: Picking Up the Pieces

If you’re like us, you’ve just used your Wildcard, Bench Boost, and then Free Hit, back-to-back-to-back, thereby exhausting all of your chips for the season (and hopefully having moved significantly c...

1 Mai 31min

GW 34: The Name’s Porro. Pedro Porro.

Double Gameweek 33 was truly one for the ages, with both Jacob and Jiayang finishing on a whopping 124 points. The very teams that served us so well last week, however, have no fixtures this upcoming ...

23 Apr 54min

GW 33: The Tightening of the Template

It’s a bit of a quiet week in FPL, but here at the Fortress, we’re committed to producing insightful content—week in, week out, no matter the circumstance. To that end, after reviewing Gameweek 32 and...

16 Apr 37min

GW 32: Managing (to Survive)

After the longest mid-season break the Premier League has ever experienced (a statement that has not been fact-checked but feels undeniably true), we are finally back to discuss best strategies for th...

9 Apr 39min

GW 31: Fill In the Blank

With both Arsenal and Man City blanking next gameweek, Jiayang’s and Jacob’s teams—both of which are tripled up on each of the two clubs—look a little worse for wear. The good news? We’re both stockpi...

18 Mar 46min

GW 28: Future-Proofing the Blank

One of the good things about the FPL Fortress is that even if Jacob and Jiayang both have rotten gameweeks individually, the rottenness does not necessarily seep into the quality of our episode—in fac...

24 Feb 51min

GW 27: Arsenal Bottle It Live On Air

The second half of the Wolves vs. Arsenal game was being played during the recording of this episode. When Gabriel provided an assist for Hincapié, Jacob and Jiayang—who had both triple-captained him—...

19 Feb 52min