EPL Week 1: ☹️Me 49 - 54 ChatGPT🙂
A frustrating loss as I forgot to change my captain and had I done so, would have picked up another 13 points.
On to week two.
The first prompt is:
Using the team listed would you suggest transferring one player out. If so which player, and who should replace them. Use teams and players that are in the 2025/2026 English Premier League. Use the game rules found here: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/help/rules. Use the squads and player prices found here: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/squad-selection. Ensure the total squad cost does not exceed 100 million. Ensure there are no more than three players from any single team. Ensure players are selected from only teams playing in the 2025/2026 English Premier League.
Obviously the team listed is the team from last week.
That gave me an initial suggestion to transfer out Morgan Gibbs-White and bring in Granit Xhaka.
The issue with the suggestion is Xhaka is already in the squad! It also ignores the fact that Isak is in the squad, but will not be playing anytime soon. However that is a by point.
Next prompt:
as Granit Xhaka is already in the squad, the suggestion is invalid
The new suggestion was to bring in Baleba. That fitted within the game criteria so I made the transfer and the team now looks like:
£5.5m Everton Pickford £4.5m Leeds Perri
£5.0m Crystal Palace Mitchell £6.0m Man City Aït-Nouri £5.5m Arsenal Mosquera £4.5m Everton Aznou £5.0m Chelsea Hato
£5.0m Brighton Baleba £8.5m Liverpool Wirtz £5.0m Leeds Stach £5.5m Wolves J.Arias £5.0m Sunderland Xhaka
£14.0m Man City Haaland £10.5m Newcastle Isak £6.0m West Ham Wilson
Next to set the formation for the week. The prompt is:
Using the list of players above suggest a line-up for Game Week Two of the English Premier League as found at https://www.premierleague.com/en/matches?competition=8&season=2025&matchweek=2&month=08
That gave this formation:
Starting XI
Pickford (Everton) vs Brighton (H) — Playing
Mitchell (Crystal Palace) vs Nottingham Forest (H) — Playing
Mosquera (Arsenal) vs Leeds (H) — Playing
Aït-Nouri (Man City) vs Tottenham (H) — Playing
J. Arias (Wolves) vs Bournemouth (A) — Playing
Wirtz (Liverpool) vs Newcastle (A) — Playing
Xhaka (Sunderland) vs Burnley (A) — Playing
Baleba (Brighton) vs Everton (A) — Playing
Isak (Newcastle) vs Liverpool (H) — Playing
Wilson (West Ham) vs Chelsea (H) — Playing
Haaland (Man City) vs Tottenham (H) — Playing
Bench
Perri (Leeds) vs Arsenal (A) — Playing
Aznou (Everton) vs Brighton (H) — Playing
Stach (Leeds) vs Arsenal (A) — Playing
Hato (Chelsea) vs West Ham (A) — Playing
Captain: Haaland, due to his clinical form and a favourable Man City fixture.
Vice-Captain: Wirtz, in case of captaincy switch.
So, that's this week set. Now I'm away to do my team.