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5 August 2026 · 10 min read
GW1 best squad: our recommended 15 for the 2026/27 kick-off
No Salah, two players above £10.0m, and a World Cup hangover. The strangest GW1 draft in years — here's all 15 players we recommend, bench order included, and the two big names we left out.
3 August 2026 · 7 min read
The elite manager's playbook: transfers, hits, captaincy and chips for 2026/27
The Hall of Fame's disciplines only pay when they become weekly machinery. The transfer checklist the elites run, the test that decides a minus-4, captaincy by rank situation, and how to spend two chip sets. Part two of three.
23 July 2026 · 3 min read
How SmartPlay picks a captain — and why your mini-league changes the answer
Most captain advice hands everyone the same name. The right pick depends on expected points and where you sit in your mini-league. Here's how the model reasons about both.