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'Team TSZ' is a collective FPL team where tough decisions are made during uncompromising board room meetings. Team TSZ finished a lofty 1390 in its debut year, and followed that up with a respectable 88178 in its second season. How will the third season go? Stay tuned!
‘Team TSZ’ consists of:
Back by popular demand (we had an email this week expressing mild interest), the Team TSZ review returns with I, Adam, now an excellent FPL manager. I was second only behind Trystan in our staff league for most of this season until a desperate Rob utilised his Triple Captain and Free Hit chips in back-to-back weeks to, admittedly, rampant success. However, I am now a wholly paid-up, stressed-out member of the world’s top 300,000.
No longer will I pay scorn to the decisions of Team TSZ’s backroom staff whilst languishing in last place of the ‘TSZ Cup sponsored by Booths’ (RIP). Who knew not making three 3am transfers on a night bus was a good thing? Now I shall pay scorn to the decisions of just Trystan and Alex, with Rob and Tim stepping down from the board citing personal disinterest, as they desperately chase me down. How will the conflicting styles of Trystan (safe, sound, smug) and bottom-of-the-league Alex (FPL’s own Icarus, still has Reece James) play out for the remainder of the season?
HOW DID WE GET ON IN GAMEWEEK 19?
GW points: 102
GW average: 74
GW rank: 791,408
Overall rank: 373,005 (▲)
Team TSZ enters Gameweek 20 at 373,005th in the world with 1142 points after a decent, chip-less DGW19 score of 102. They are still in the cup, for now, where they face Anne’s Tigers in GW20. Alex is particularly keen to defeat a potential Hull City fan (judging by their kit).
GAMEWEEK 20 TEAM
Formation: 3-4-3
Captain: Bruno Fernandes
Vice-captain: Kane
Transfers made: 1 (Kilman > Dunne)
Point deductions: 0
In our first post-apocalyptic Team TSZ, Trystan pulled myself and Alex up to speed. He admitted that the once 1390th best FPL team had essentially fallen into disrepair; that he had not “been paying attention” to it. Of course, this is just a ploy by the scheming mind behind “Mastermind FC” to create a feeder club below him in the league. Team TSZ had become his throwaway account, his experimental side, Mastermind FC Reserves. It is up to Alex now to help bring the side back into repute with the kind of FPL knowledge that saw him finish 7664th last season, albeit 2,331,470th now.
I asked Alex what had happened to him this season but he declined to comment. It is difficult to discern minute emotions over Skype (what me and your Grandmother used to call Zoom) but there was a loss in his expression that will stay with me for some time.
Also, now we have just two staff members on the decisions board I have been assigned a new all-powerful role as the tiebreaker. It sounded enthralling at first, the opportunity to be the difference maker in key, season-defining decisions. Indeed, it was exciting for about seven minutes until Trystan and Alex made their first executive call of this new era: Max Kilman (£4.0m) to Jimmy Dunne (£3.8m). “Probably the most boring transfer you could do” said Trystan.
Still, after much deliberation over starting Vladimir Coufal (Trystan) or Tyrick Mitchell (Alex) I was allowed my first tiebreak pick and chose the West Ham wing-back for his potentially higher ceiling. Elsewhere, Team TSZ had plenty of captaincy options: Salah at Spurs after scoring two goals midweek, Kane at home to Liverpool in his excellent form, perhaps Sterling away to West Brom. In the end there was only one option, said every single FPL manager in the world; Bruno Fernandes at home to bottom-of-the-league Sheffield Utd.
Thanks for reading, and good luck in the gameweek!
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