Which FPL players are nearing a one-match ban?

Just remember it’s only a game. Rank means nothing at this point in the season so don’t dwell on that at all. Long way to go yet

Remember it’s just a game and we’re not even in October yet. Forget it about this week, enjoy the European games and come back on Saturday morning with a clear head.

25 points, 5.9 million rank and it doesn’t bother me at all. Just a game to dip in and out for me. Enjoying not taking any hits and just making my weekly transfer and seeing what happens. It’s all too random to really invest too much time and emotion into.

I'm on 33 + Turner/Pickford. I also got battered on Sky FF this week.

BUT, I had a pretty nice week on FanTeam. So depends what your appetite is. If FPL is enough for you, I would say log off, forget all about it, and come back refreshed next weekend after enjoying the European games purely for the football. Otherwise, I would recommend playing multiple games. Playing 3/4 games means I'm more likely to get that little dopamine hit from at least somewhere!

It's very early days - 340k is still good!

Same as all needless suffering in life. The Buddha dharma has the solution. If you want to suffer less address the craving, clinging, attachments and ignorance

I made an early transfer, set my bus team up and then will try to engage as little as possible with it until Friday - also having a terrible GW but now just looking forward to Brighton's first ever european game!

You're still in a great position at this stage - patience will be rewarded.

Just think of your next move. Don't be rash & spiral into rage hits and transfers though. Keep a cool head & know that ranks are bunched together at this point in the season. Also, I would kill to be ranked 340k right now 😀

I've seen many on 28. It's ranging from 25 to the best case being around 50. So this shouldn't bother you

I'd encourage you to think about how the game changes actually your life once the season is over and then consider whether the weekly stress is worth it.

This week was bad for most and the one who'd good week got something like 10 points, it's boring when gws like this occurs, but it's far better than when you specifically have had a bad week and everyone gets 20 odd points more than you. It feels like a week where nothing really happened. Go on, next.

I look ahead and not back. I've taken this approach to everything and it's done wonders for my mental health. Good or bad, I don't really dwell on the week once the deadline is locked and just look at future transfers.

Helps that I took a 3 year hiatus from FPL so I know there's life beyond it. Taking a 1 or more year break from FPL is really nice tbh. More people should do it if they're realizing they're not enjoying it anymore.

By having a good one.
When that happens, I’ll let you know, currently at 2.8 million.

When something bad happens I try not to dwell on it, get a good night's sleep, and usually feel better the next day.
I'm having a poor Gameweek and a terrible season and am currently at 3.5million, but I've had a look at what I've been doing wrong this season and what I need to do to get back on track.
Having analysed my mistakes, I then try to put the past behind me and to concentrate on the future.
Although I'm not where I would have been if I hadn't made those mistakes, I decided that I only need to change a couple of players for a hit to get a squad that I'm happy with, and am optimistic that I can then start moving up the rankings.
I've also reconciled myself to the fact that I'm never going to win FPL, and may not even get any more top 10k finishes, but I just enjoy playing and trying to make the best decisions I can from the positions that I find myself in.

Relax, it’s not your fault. You’ve put your faith in your picks and they’ve not delivered, it’s their fault not yours

Very relatable, last year after a really bad start it was making me feel very low. Like you mentioned above, definitely became something that carried the deeper struggles in life; at best it was a nice distraction, at worst a trigger for a ton of other real life negative thoughts and feelings. Anyway, I left all my leagues and stopped looking too deeply at stats, bought in players that I liked, and just tried to enjoy PL games regardless of my ff team, and started to feel a lot better about it. It was like a year off without cutting it out completely, worked well for me, and football kind of became a nice escape again rather than a crutch to pin deep seated issues on

I press the WC button mate

Thanks, everyone. Wasn’t expecting so many replies but it’s nice when we can discuss something like this in this way. You’re a good bunch

Taking a break from the game definitely helps.

19 with Awoniyi(c) to go.

So it's possible that I end up with 23 tonight, which I believe would be the worst on the entire forum. Hope not though, it's definitely made a boring Monday more exciting.

I look at it like this. Other than say defensive mids or injured players there are a big pool of FPL options. Nobody - no matter how full of it they are - knows what will happen to these players every week. Son is the perfect example of many.

Once you realise that you have picked a points probable side of 11 and maybe one decent sub then thats it, you can do no more. Whatever happens is out of your control. An injury, an own goal, a sub on 59 mins, a crazy goal:assist, a silly yellow card its all possible. And that can happen a lot if you are on the dark side of probability.

So I say dont fret the bad weeks, enjoy the good weeks when you fall on the right side and do not blame yourself for something with so much out of your control.

Been playing 10 years. Had many bad GWs. Just shake it off. Lot of strong teams on paper this GW will get less than 30 pts. Sometimes the good/highly owned players just don't turn up. Look at current team of the week only one player over 10% ownership.

I don’t pet it bother me. For me the game is all about the decision making process. I think particularly people on here and my fans on X, etc. assume that I’m so good at the game I must be heavily invested in the outcomes but I’m not.

26 points with gw rank of 9.3 million 😆

"I LOVE THIS GAME!"

I've been playing FPL since 2009 & you can see from my history I'm not very good!

https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/2962209/history

I used to be similar & feel bad after horrible GW & let it get me down...but as I've grown older when in bad mood I find other things to bring me joy & escapism like going for a walk, listening to my favourite music, watching my favourite comedy series/films.
When I've had a bad week I don't even login to the website to look at my rank!
Still don't know red arrow this week.
I'm someone who does transfers as last minute as possibly can

You quit if you not in any cash league especially if you still ranked above a million lol. Especially not the worth the hassle if you have seen epl matches live in good seating already