The key to any good Fantasy Premier League team are your differential players – ones that make a difference that not everybody has.
Anyone can predict that Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland will rack up big scores, but it takes real knowledge – and often bravery – to identify those players that will have an amazing season out of nowhere.
Over the years there have been some players racked up unexpectedly monster scores on FPL, helping you to come top of your workplace mini league in the process.
Here are nine Premier League players that earned cult hero status thanks to their fantasy football brilliance.
Charlie Adam – 2010-11
Few people gave Ian Holloway’s Blackpool a snowball’s chance in hell when they unexpectedly made their way out of the Championship in 2010.
But they gave it their all and only narrowly ended up going down. Charlie Adam perfectly encapsulated that scrappy underdog status. He cost just £5.0million in the game at the start of the season and bagged 12 goals, eight assists and 192 FPL points. His price steadily rose and as the season progressed he went from an outsider’s gambit to a must-have.
He wasn’t quite as much of a must-have at Liverpool.
Opponents were always concerned when Charlie Adam stood in front of a free kick at Blackpool 🎯pic.twitter.com/iq6XYaujEq
— GOAL (@goal) February 14, 2021
Michel Vorm – 2011-12
Brendan Rodgers’ newly-promoted Swansea were the archetypal Premier League ‘breath of fresh air’. Not only did they have Danny Graham banging in the goals and play easy-on-the-eye possession football, but they were a solid unit.
Dutch goalkeeper Vorm was priced as a bargain-bin option of just £4million but soon proved to be a steal. He kept 14 clean sheets and produced the season of his career in doing so, making 143 saves, which included a couple of penalty stops.
Clint Dempsey – 2011-12
By the time the 2011-12 season rolled around, Dempsey had already established himself as a strong FPL pick and as such wasn’t especially cheap at £8.5million.
He’d already scored that goal against Juventus in the Europa League and had already crowned himself the Premier League’s all-time highest-scoring American, but the best was yet to come.
The Fulham midfielder produced the season of his career in 2011-12. He registered 17 goals and six assists (209 FPL points) and saw his in-game value skyrocket to £9.8million by the end of the campaign. That form earned him a move to Tottenham come the end…
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