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XG, lets step back a bit There are some really clever people who like producing predictive models to improve their fpl performance, or they just enjoy the process that entails. Fpl has no rules,  you can play any way you want and its clear a lot of hard work goes into these things, fair play. Equally you can play fpl simply watching games and looking at not one stat, you can even play it not watching any games, remember last year there was a theoretical squad that could have be been picked gw1 and not touched all season, no transfers chips nothing, which would have won FPL. Incredible but true. These things aren't what I've been tweeting about , albeit a little but cheeky at times. My issue is the rather strange conclusions being drawn from some stats, xg in particular. Some posters  go so far as to suggest xg guarantees success and is proven to work and other such bizarre claims,  it doesn't and hasn't, has a value yes, interesting piece of work yes, but guar