Tips for picking the best forwards for your FPL team
1. If you pick a premium forward, make sure he is also a good captaincy option.
- Usually, if you pick 10m+ player, you want him to be a captaincy contender in gameweeks to come
2. Do not overlook talimans
- Also, consider forwards who are talismans for their teams – that are heavily involved in almost every goal of their team (for example, Wood for Nottingham last season)
3. Consider probabilities when picking forwards in FPL.
- Let bookies any time goalscorer odds to help you with that. You can find them here: Premier League Goalscoring Odds.
4. Defensive contributions will not affect forwards, expect that the points shift towards the midfield, and defence
- Forwards will benefit the least from defensive contribution points
- You will rarely see some forward getting DEFCON points.
- For example, Bowen had the most defensive contributions last season among forwards – 211 in 34 games, which is 6.21 DEFCONs on average per match. Now, in order to forward to get extra 2 points for defensive contributions, he would need 12 per game – that is a huge gap
- This is a huge factor when choosing a formation. I think playing on 3 forwards is out of the question (at least for me) for this season, and I am leaning towards playing 4-4-2. If we had 2 playing 4.5m forwards (but we do not), I would play 4-5-1.
5. Forwards are overpriced and have very few routes to points
- Forwards are my least favorite category in FPL
- They tends to be overpriced, and they do not have as many routes to points as MIDs or DEFs.
- There are seasons, when even 5.5m defenders tend to score more points over the season than 7.5m forwards, and with the introduction of defensive contributions, 2025/26 could be that season again.
6. Have realistic expectations from your forwards (and patience)
- Usually, the top-scoring forwards can get around 180-230 points per season (on some occasions even more, but this is the realistic expectation from premium FPL forwards) – that is 4.7 – 6 points per match
- Good mid-priced FPL forwards (usually 6.5m – 9m range) can get approximately 140-180 points per season, so expect around 3.7 – 4.74 points per match on average
- Budget forwards can get around 90 – 120 points per season = 2.4 – 3.15 points per match
- The points of midfielders and forwards usually came in waves or in clusters – so the run of “form” can be followed with a run of blanks.
Reliable FPL forwards with stable points output in the previous 3 seasons
Read more in our article: Best long-term FPL picks for 2024/25 season
hello, I just read your articles about the best players in every position, which says buy hold sell, etc
but now I am confused about something maybe you can help me with it
if you mention a player to BUY, but at the same time to buy that player I’ll have to sell a player that you say HOLD, so in this situation what should I do?
i only sell the players that you suggest to SELL only?
And what about the players you don’t mention at all either buy or sell or hold, that means I shouldn’t have them at all?