Fortunately the world of FI doesn’t stop even when matches are not being played.

I’ve maintained the same work schedule. In normal times, I probably do 75% player scouting and 25% market analysis and strategy. In the last couple of weeks, that has flipped around as I focus on watching the markets and assessing what the optimal strategy might be.

Usually, I work 8am to 6am and try to take Friday and Saturday as my day’s off. I’ll now be more flexible throughout this and if something important happens to react to, I’ll be working anytime 7 day’s a week, taking some breaks when things are quiet instead.

Personally, I work from home as it is so my chances of getting infected are probably lower than most. And as a healthy person in my mid 30’s the odds of me getting sick enough to stop working seem quite low. (I hope I have not just cursed myself!) 

Here’s a breakdown of planned content:

Continued regular State of the Market analysis and Live Blogs

Whenever there is something new to comment on. I’ve been doing this a lot and am half worried this might be a bit spammy – I’ve decided that members at this time probably want too much information rather than too little but let me know if I’m getting that wrong.

Continued background scouting preparation

We want to be ready in the event of positive news that gives confidence that we can go ahead and find some value in the market. This will include further additions to the transfers section in the coming days, as well as some “bargain hunting” articles looking at what value this uncertainty has created in the market. That will be added over the next week.

New Key Strategy

Key Strategy was a good setup but has been overtaken by the latest advice in State of the Market. Once we reach a point where I think there is enough certainty to confidently set out a plan for 1-2 months I’ll provide a new Key Strategy. As things stand, we’re taking it day by day through State of the Market and Live Blog’s.

Longer term Scouting

In the event of resumed matches Scouting will return. We’ll also need to consider any pre-season schedule, all the transfers/tactical changes that happen between seasons etc. Whilst we currently have a good handle on who the “good” players are, this changes quickly between seasons and we’ll need to keep up to date on this.

Dividend increases/performance changes/FI announcements

Between seasons we usually get some big changes to the way FI works which have a huge impact on trading. Last season, the big changes to performance scoring meant I was able to give members a big advantage by knowing who the strong players were before they started racking up big totals in real games. 

We will likely see this again, and we know there is the dividend increase and things like the media changes too. All of this will be broken down and analysed in depth as it happens over the Summer.