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FPL Fortress
Two FPL fanatics have a chat about the weekend's action and look ahead to future gameweeks, throwing around banter and exchanging insight.
Episodes
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GW 27: Biting the Bullet
Now that this round of the FA Cup has finished, the Gameweek 29 fixtures are finally confirmed—and boy, they do not look particularly exciting. In this…
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GW 26: Like a Knife Through Hot Butter
FPL is a game that’s often characterized by the feeling of disappointment. Cold, hard, and unadulterated disappointment. And yet, before every seemingly juicy…
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GW 25: City-Pool is Back?
In this episode, we focus exclusively on Liverpool, Manchester City, and Arsenal, the three teams that comprise the current top three of the Premier League—as…
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GW 24: A Fresh Approach to Chip Strategy
With GW 25 and GW 28 finally confirmed to be double gameweeks and a clearer picture emerging overall of the remainder of the season, it finally seems like…
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GW 23: A Rusty Robot
Gameweek 22 was full of fun moments, with Haaland completely scuffing his lines (a robot will inevitably be a little rusty after a period of disuse, after…
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GW 22: Animal Jam
The most stretched-out gameweek in recent memory has bored us to the point of making Starting XIs consisting of animals. Yes, that’s right—Jacob and Jiayang…
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GW 21: Olé Olé Ol(is)é
Breaks in the Premier League never come to pass calmly. Our teams just always seem to get derailed—this time, it’s injuries to Bowen, Trent, and of course…
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GW 20: Hope
I can scarcely believe that this is our last episode in 2023, but here we are! Jiayang and Jacob conduct reviews of Chelsea and Man City respectively, with…
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GW 19: Thinking About Thinking
All any FPL manager wants for Christmas is a captaincy haul—obviously. Oh, but will Santa come and realize this dream of ours? In this Christmas Eve episode of…
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GW 17: Fun With Flags
It almost seems like this week’s episode of the FPL Fortress should be an episode of Sheldon Cooper’s “Fun With Flags” instead. Jiayang’s team is filled with…
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GW 14/15: He's a Keeper!
We’ve got a special double episode coming your way today, given that the first midweek gameweek is fast approaching—a sign of the busy holiday season ahead…
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GW 13: Follow the Masses?
With Man City vs. Liverpool looming over us in under 60 hours, it’s time for FPL managers to jump right back into the thick of things, especially after the…
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GW 12: The Way They Do Things in the Southern Hemisphere
How much has to go wrong for you to concede three goals to Nicolas Jackson? The answer: two disallowed goals (albeit rightly so), two red cards (absolutely…
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GW 11: The Ceaseless Choice
It’s a (relatively) peaceful week in the FPL landscape this week. We still do our classic Gameweek Review and Captaincy segments this episode, but instead of…
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GW 10: Negotiating the Non-Negotiables
Considering the dramatic episode title, it may come as a surprise that the nature of the following 70 minutes is actually rather light-hearted. (Don’t…
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GW 8: God Lives in Tyneside
Today, we all witnessed the divinity of Daniel Johnson Burn, the lanky lad who just scored against PSG in the Champions League. To quote Newcastle’s Twitter…
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GW 7: Solving Differential Equations
We’re back on the grind here at the Fortress—as college students now!—and, as always, there’s a ton to talk about this week in FPL. Our Gameweek 6 Review…
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GW 2: To Save or Not to Save?
This is our fourth season, and yet, for some reason or another, we still have yet to produce a Gameweek 1 episode. If we had, it’s obviously safe to say that…
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2022/23 Season Review: Awards, Breakout & Flop XI, Horror Stories, and More
The final episode of the 2022/23 season on FPL Fortress is here! It’s been another wild ride—it always is, whenever FPL is involved, at least—and we want to…
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GW 38: Narratives: Naughty or Nice?
This episode is all about narratives. After all, it's the last gameweek of the season—what better time to indulge ourselves? We deliberated over the best…
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GW 37: Manchester Madness
Sir Callum Eddie Graham Wilson MBE the Great (has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?) has officially crowned himself the King of Tyneside. Just how Howe has been…
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GW 36: A Coronation on Tyneside?
There was a coronation in England recently, but it's not the one you're thinking of, as Erling Haaland set the new single season goalscoring record in the…
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GW 32: The Philosophy and Permutations of the Free Hit
It seems like everybody and their mom is playing their Free Hit this week; but sometimes, you just gotta do what you gotta do. After a compelling Gameweek 31…
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GW 31: Diving Into the Run-In
It's that time of the season again: the run-in. High time for even more blanks and doubles, European knockout games, domestic cup finals, mounting injuries…
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GW 28: Raising the Blue Flag
To keep Haaland or not to keep Haaland? That is the question, and we have the answer (spoiler alert: we think there are other fish in the sea). We also mull…
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GW 27: Click Play to Learn How to Count to 7!
One, two, three, four ... no, that's not how we do it around here at the Fortress. We find that there are much more creative ways to count to 7. On board? Ok…
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GW 26: Parlaying the Wildcard into a Green $treak
Funny, isn't it? Last week, no one in the FPL community had even considered wildcarding in GW 26, but now it seems like everyone's considering it. Perhaps a…
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GW 25: Psychoanalyzing the Free Hit and Unearthing a Secret Vendetta
Liverpool are back! Is what we all thought for 21 minutes. And then they weren’t. We’ll talk about how much we should trust their assets this episode, as well…
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GW 24: What Makes a Perfect Fit?
It’s a bit of a quiet week in FPL, but we here at the Fortress still hope to provide you with some quality insight and banter. We tentatively sing João Félix's…
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GW 23: Oh Baby, A Triple!
Managers who triple-captained Marcus Rashford won. By this time next week, will we be saying the same thing about those who triple-captained Erling Haaland? We…
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GW 22: A Devilish Double
Brighton have just beaten Liverpool 2-1 thanks to a stunner from Kaoru Mitoma. Is anyone surprised? Not us. That's the latest in a thrilling round of FA Cup…
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GW 21: Fraud Watch
With City staging a second-half comeback against Spurs, this past mini double gameweek draws to a close. But unless you owned Solly March, Bruno Fernandes, or…
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GW 20: Rashford's Ravishing Rampage
This feels like deja vu, but we're back (again)! It’s been a month (or two) since our last episode, but with college applications firmly behind us, we are…
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2022/23 Midseason Review: Flop-Fest, a Tale of Two Bad Interviews, and the Human Prediction Machine
For our inaugural midseason review, we nominate our players of the season so far, pay respects to the breakout stars, and laugh at the players who simply…
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GW 16: It's Punting Season
We’ve had to take a bit of a hiatus, but we’re back now and ready to provide all the insight you need for the last gameweek before the World Cup. It’s a bit of…
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GW 9: Winning the Wildcard
It’s felt like an eternity, but we’re back. As a lot of managers are planning to use their wildcard, we’ll cover exactly which players are right for your team…
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GW 7: VAR (a.k.a. Very Aggravating Rulings)
Once again, VAR has dominated the headlines—it seems like there's a new controversy every week. I mean, the Argentine Lionel Messi (none other than Alexis Mac…
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GW 6: Bigger, Faster, Stronger
This past gameweek was defined by one man: Erling Haaland. He’s truly unlike anything we’ve ever seen before; it’s almost hard to put into words how dominant…
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GW 5: Is Salah Still Salah?
Well, we didn’t see that coming, did we? All that talk of Liverpool’s glory days being over and they come out and absolutely hammer Bournemouth. It just goes…
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GW 4: Ten Hag's Devil Awakens
It’s only been three gameweeks, and it seems like everything we thought we knew about this game has been flipped on its head. I mean, Man United? Where did…
FPL Fortress2021/22 Season Review: Awards, Breakout and Flop XI, Lessons Learned, And More
Well, this is it! The end to yet another season. It all feels a bit surreal, but we will give our FPL Fortress awards, detail our Breakout XI and Flop XI…
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GW 38: The Zeroth Hour
The final pre-gameweek episode of the FPL Fortress is upon us. It’s been a great season, but also a tiring one, and we’re finally about to reach its end. All…
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GW 37: Penultimate Ponderings
We’ve got just two more weeks to go, and the finality of all is really setting in now. But not everything is set in stone yet; there are still two big…
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GW 35: The Calm Before the Storm
Although the fate of our gameweeks are still up in the air, there have certainly been some dramatic moments this past weekend. At the same time, this weekend…
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GW 34: The Home Stretch
It’s been a while, but we are back, with perhaps our most important episode of the season. We’re getting into crunch time now, and every decision you will make…
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GW 30: Stagflation of the FPL Market
It’s been a long, hectic, but ultimately rewarding couple of weeks of FPL. 26 more games of the Premier League are now in the books, and with it, we’ve had…
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GW 28: Fixture Swings and Other Things
In this episode, Jacob and Jiayang recap the last two FPL gameweeks, including the disaster that was Wout Weghorst and Leeds' horrific run of form that led to…
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GW 26: Differentials, Dilemmas, and Dichotomies
We’ve got a massively consequential gameweek coming up this weekend, and it’ll be absolutely essential to get it right. We’ll break down everything you need to…
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GW 24: Impact Arrivals
Welcome back to the FPL Fortress! It’s been far too long without the Prem, but that’s set to come to an end soon. Granted, my mental health has largely…
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GW 23: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Transfers
We’ve just witnessed one of the best Premier League weekends in recent history, in which a Champions League Final rematch wasn’t even close to the best game of…
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GW 22: Double or Nothing?
It’s been a while, but it’s good to be back. These last couple gameweeks have been dragging on for what has felt like years, but we’ve got a fun one coming up…
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GW 20/21: Boxing Day Bonkers
We were certainly treated to plenty of goals on Boxing Day, with Man City putting 6 past Leicester and Arsenal putting 5 past Norwich. Spurs saw out a…
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GW 19: Introducing Dilemma Deliberations
We didn’t exactly have the biggest week of Premier League action, but to be honest, the games that were played were pretty good. And these postpones fixtures…
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GW 18: The Covid Conundrum
Welcome back to another episode of the FPL Fortress. Apologies that we were not able to get an episode out last week, but we’re back this week. But the thing…
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GW 16: Deletion is the Best Solution
It’s only been a week since the last episode, but so much has happened since then—midweek gameweeks are absolutely nuts. But it's also been an incredibly rough…
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GW 14/15: Buckle Up for Midweek Madness
We have a special double episode today, where we will be covering Gameweeks 14 and 15. There are a bunch of things to discuss, from the Curious Case of the…
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GW 13: The Unstoppable Force vs. the Immovable Object
We’ve got an exciting episode for you today after the weekend’s stunning events. I mean, who could have imagined United getting thrashed by Watford? 17% of the…
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GW 12: A Team of 11 Cancelos?
Welcome back to a new episode of the FPL Fortress. We’re coming to you right in the middle of what has been a very boring international break. They say that…
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GW 11: United Win "EL Sackico" but Spurs Win the War
Welcome back to another episode of the FPL Fortress. This weekend was a rough one for many FPL managers - that is, unless you had Reece James, who came out of…
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GW 10: Ole Gunna Lose His Job
In this episode, Jacob and Jiayang break down a bizarre FPL gameweek, highlighted by Liverpool's 5-0 demolition of United and Chelsea's striker blanking in a…