The 2021/22 season of Fantasy Champions League is now over. It was a fantastic ride with a great finale.
Season recap
- It was a season where balls recovered did not play such a significant role as in two previous seasons.
- Chip strategy was extremely important – it was important to use your chips in the groups stage, where we had a low team value, so especially limitless wildcard was important there
- Premium forwards (Lewandowski, Benzema) was top scoring players, which shows, that we must focus on premium forwards when picking players into our UCL Fantasy team.
- Captaincy = very important as well = you should focus on big players against easy opositions
Best UCL Fantasy Team 2021/22
Let’s look at the best team of UCL Fantasy 2021/22:
- Goalkeeper: Courtois (69 points)
- Defenders: Cancelo (65 points), Militao (60 points), Mandava (60 points)
- Midfielders: Sané (84 points), Salah (78 points), Mahrez (71 points), Danjuma (66 points)
- Forwards: Benzema (102 points), Lewandowski (91 points), Haller (69 points)
Source: UCL Fantasy Stats
Fantasy Football Reports League
Congratulation to justincase, who won our FPL Reports mini-league.
Overall UCL Fantasy 2021/22 winner
Overall UCL Fantasy winner for 2021/22 season is Daniel Turon with amazing 1067 points.
Conclusion
Another great season is behind us. Hope you succeed in your mini-leagues. I am happy with my overall ranking, as I finish the season on 86th place overall, and I won my country (Slovakia) mini-league for the 5th time in the row.
We will see you in September when UCL Fantasy 2022/23 begins.
Cheers,
Matej.
I think it might be because the number of ball recovery is hard to model quantitatively – it seems to have no correlation with the strength of the team. I tried to build a mathematical model initially but gave up after not able to recognize any pattern.
Thanks for the insight! That’s very useful. I would like to learn more about your research. Would you be interested in writing an article about your research regarding balls recovered? I think many other managers would appreciate that 🙂
Sure, would love to, although the article will be more like reflecting on failed attempts than a success story, lol
Thanks! That’s okay, I still think that it is going to be exciting reading for fantasy football managers that rely on stats and statistical modeling 🙂 Feel free to send me the article to sulanmatej(at)gmail.com . Also, you can include your author bio, if you want 🙂
Ok, I’ll let you know once I write it
I just shared the article I wrote in Google Doc with your email. Let me know if you receive and can open it
Thank you very much! I received it. The article will be live soon 🙂