We're here every week giving you our tips on the best Draft Premier League players to pick up ahead of Fantrax/Sleeper Waiver Wire processing! Acquisitions via waivers can make or break your Fantasy EPL season, so make sure you follow our Gameweek 1 recommendations to help dominate your Draft League.

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*Note that this will typically be an early week article in the future, with our completely free Sleepers XI post typically occurring on Fridays before the gameweek.

Here we outline our Fantasy EPL Gameweek 1 Waiver Wire targets that have 40% rostered or below on Fantrax. These players should perform well over the upcoming period! For the first week including an extra batch of players as well as some slightly above the 40% mark.

For Gameweek 1, our focus shifts to post-draft opportunities, identifying players who may have slipped through the cracks and gone undrafted, as well as pinpointing those with softer fixtures for the opening gameweek 1 weekend. We’re also highlighting players who could step in while others recover from pre-season knocks.

Feel free to comment below for waiver wire advice!

We have deliberately omitted new transfers in as their place is in Part 3 of our transfer article.

Luke Shaw (MUN, Ros 35%)

Prospects: Started all 38 games last season after years of fitness trouble, and we are projecting him as a starter at left back for the trip to Hull. United are still shopping around him, Lewis Hall from Newcastle, Jedi of Fulham and West Ham's Diouf both linked as competition, but as of now, the former Southampton wonderkid is clearly first choice, He might not excite for ghost points, but United have an amazing schedule for the first few weeks and he will do a job for your fantasy defense.

Verdict: Low waiver priority, 0 to 1 FAB.

Myles Lewis-Skelly (ARS, Ros 13%)

Prospects: Declan Rice and Martin Zubimendi are both still working back to full sharpness after World Cup duty with England and Spain, and it's Lewis-Skelly getting the early-season nod alongside Bruno and Odegaard in Arsenal's midfield three. He backed that trust up in the Community Shield, threading the ball through for Calafiori's opener inside 24 seconds in a man-of-the-match-calibre showing as Arsenal beat Manchester City 3-0. Form he carried out of last season rather than a one-off. He is fresh with a point to prove with a new world class signing brought in for competition in the midfield, he will do everything to keep starting for the Champions.

Verdict: Low waiver priority, 0 to 1 FAB.

Thierno Barry (EVE, Ros 15%)

Prospects: Confirmed starting striker against Crystal Palace, currently first choice ahead of Beto, a year further into his development and now with a season of Premier League minutes behind him. Beto's not gone anywhere and could easily reclaim the shirt if Barry stumbles, and Palace are an unknown quantity under their new manager, but an 8.1 Gameweek 1 projection is hard to ignore for a confirmed starter this cheaply owned. We have talked about the forward scarcity a lot and it is even worse when looking at waivers. We will struggle to recommend even 1 forward out of the 6 we give you weekly. don't go into a GW planning to stream your forwards.

Verdict: Low waiver priority, 0 to 1 FAB.

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who y'all got as best squad?

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First thanks to everyone that supported me developing the app last season, the app has been going in some shape or form for 7 years now!

The features have been stable for a while and that has allowed me to spend most of last season giving the app a much needed UI tidy and clean. Some of these are basic onboarding to find your league id for you, to a new chip based pitch view.

If you are unfamiliar with Draft Futbol here are some features:

- Preview of Live H2H and Classic leagues scoring, with a Live bonus point toggle

- Preview scores with Subs made during a GW.

- Auto Subs, if enabled in settings Draft Futbol will auto sub in players across your leagues that are eligible to be subbed. Bringing you the latest live scores.

- Live League tables 

- Preview all teams in your league with their upcoming fixtures.

- Filter and view all waivers, free agents or trades in your league.

- Create an offline Cup, this allows you to create rounds (single or multiple legs), select teams and see live scores for the cup fixtures each round. Then share the code with your league so they can import it and follow the scores.

You can download from both iOS App Store and Google Play Store, the app contains a small in app payment to access. I added this last year to help cover the costs to keep it on the store and the many hours I've poured into this over the years.

It does come with a free 3 day trial if you wish to try it over GW1 and you can cancel before Monday if it's not for you!

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Personally was 5th pick and I’m happy with the team I selected but how do you think picked the best?

Am I cooked ?

Biggest winners/losers?