This might seem very obvious - but I think it needs to be said.
A lot of people - maybe just unconsciously, not with any self-aware deliberation - fall into an idea of picking a team that could actually play: a 'balanced' team..... with a mixture of left-sided and right-sided players, centre-backs as well as full-backs, one or two solid central defensive midfielders as well as some free-spirited creatives, and a ruthless single-minded goal-poacher along with a more unselfish support striker up front. Lovely: that might well be the 'best' real team you could draw from the ranks of Premier League players, it could work beautifully on the grass.
But an FPL squad does not require you to follow any of those sensible pricniples, and they are better abandoned. Three centre-forwards, five 'No. 10s', and five left wing-backs would be awful in reality; but it's perfectly OK in Fantasy - in fact, it's probably the right way to go!
Even the No. 10s might not be necessary. There are so many outright strikers generously classified by the game as 'midfielders' that you probably want to go with as many of those as you can afford. So, you might be putting together a squad with 7 or 8 strikers and 5 full-backs. It might feel weird, wrong... but it's absolutely fine: it's the right thing to do.
My big post of tips on that tricky first squad selection will drop sometime tomorrow.
