The Elite XI: Team Reveal feature allows Fix Premium Plus members exclusive access to the greatest Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers. The combined Elite XI boasts an extraordinary 36 top 5k finishes and 46 top 10k finishes. Offering real-time tracking data, push notifications and detailed insight into manager’s strategies, the Elite XI is unlike any other team reveal.

This weekly article will take you deep into the mindset of the world’s best FPL managers, allowing you to match your playing style to individual members of the Elite XI and use their incredible insight to help inform your own FPL decisions.

James Cooper

• Top 5k Finishes: 5
• Top 10k Finishes: 6
• Best Overall Rank: 1,000

This week we talked to James Cooper, who has been playing the game since the 2010. Amazingly, he has finished half of his seasons in the top 10k and has never finished outside of the top 100k. In the 2018/19 season, he finished 1,000th in the world and is currently aiming for another strong finish going into the 2022/23 campaign.

Playing Style

James’ says that his playing style is geared almost exclusively around statistics and this is his first port of call when making FPL decisions. When I asked him about the eye test, he said: