I analysed last week why this FPL season seems to have been even more random than usual. And, although I have a few gripes about tinkering with the scoring system by introducing the maddeningly opaque new 'defensive points', most of the reasons for this lie outside the Fantasy game, in the real world of football: VAR decisions getting even worse (largely because the backroom team are now too timid about questioning their on-pitch colleague's original call), the SAOT system foisting more and more hair's-breadth - and increasingly unconvincing - offside calls on us, new defensive systems stifling a lot of creative attacking play, and the new paramountcy of set-piece scoring opportunities leading to all this unseemly wrestling in the penalty area.
And while these shifts have clearly been to the detriment of the game of football, I would say that they haven't necessarily spoiled the game of Fantasy Premier League.
The game has always been vexing, frustrating because of the huge amount of randomness and unpredictability in it. But we have to base our gameplay on identifying the areas where there is some reliable predictability.
Even though there seems to be even more randomness than usual this year, we can still strive to find the rare shoals of predictability occasionally visible amid this sea of chaos.
That has always been the challenge of Fantasy Football. This season... the game just became even more challenging. We should do our best to enjoy that.
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