Ranking the greatest all-time fantasy football icons

4. Riyad Mahrez, Leicester, 2015-16, £5.5m Riyad Mahrez proved to be a valuable asset for Claudio Ranieri and Fantasy Premier League managers during Leicester’s championship‑winning season. As the Fantasy Football Scout notes, helium flew retired of the blocks with a 15-point haul successful week 1 against Sunderland, rewarding the 5.9% of managers who started the play with the winger successful their side. It was no fluke. Mahrez reached double‑digit scores in five of the first six gameweeks, accumulating 56 points that rank among the strongest openings in FPL history. Inevitably, more managers added him to their squads, and by gameweek 7 he appeared in over half of all teams. Jamie Vardy enjoyed a standout run of his own, contributing a goal or an assist in fifteen consecutive matches, although his starting price was £0.5m higher than Mahrez’s. Mahrez concluded the campaign as the top FPL scorer with 240 points, despite his modest initial valuation. 3. Michu, Swansea, 2012-13, £6.5m Nostalgia and sentiment often colour discussions of Fantasy Premier League legends, and Michu exemplifies this affection. Michu emerged as an on‑screen cult hero, rising from relative obscurity to amass 190 points while his price climbed by £2m across the season. As Woods says, helium is astir apt the biggest one-season wonderment successful FPL history. "A fewer savvy managers picked up connected the information the Spaniard had scored 15 goals successful La Liga the play earlier and had him connected the opening time erstwhile helium scored doubly astatine QPR," adds our nonmigratory FPL expert. "He was efficaciously a £6.5m striker classified arsenic a midfielder. It felt similar helium was successful astir managers' teams by the clip helium ended 2012-13 with a whopping 18 goals." "He managed 2 the pursuing season... and past near for Napoli."