Fantasy Football Captain Picks

Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 7 Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 7. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Captain Picks article for Gameweek 7! This GW has several favourable matchups as most of the ‘top’ sides face weaker opposition – the one exception is at White Hart Lane where Spurs and Manchester City, the only two undefeated teams, face each other on Sunday afternoon. Some of the premium options, such as Ibrahimovic and Hazard, have been sold by plenty after failing to deliver in their last few matches, but with favourable matchups this weekend plenty a manager could end up regretting that decision. This is the last GW before another international break, so if you don’t want to spend the break annoyed at capping a player that faile...[Read More]

Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 6 Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 6. I sit penning this article on the morning of my birthday, and the football gods have given me a number on wonderful birthday presents. Jose Mourinho is surely unhappy after his team got whapped by Watford, and that makes me happy. Stoke were down two goals in the first fifteen minutes of their game and that makes me quite happy. Better yet, they look poised for relegation. This would make me infinitely happy. I started thinking about the best birthday presents I ever received, and the ones that stick out the most are from my childhood. So that got me thinking: what would the best birthday present of all time look like for adult me? It would start with a lifetime contract for Jose M...[Read More]

Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 4 Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 4. So, here we are – this is the first game-week since the transfer window slammed shut. Highlights on the final days included Sideshow Bob – sorry David Luiz – surprisingly finding his way back to Chelsea, Loïc Rémy arriving at Crystal Palace, Nacer Chadli moving to the Hawthorns and Jack Wilshere going on loan to Bournemouth (a deal only struck on the proviso that the midfielder would have Cherries-branded crutches for the inevitable injuries). Arsene Wenger also stopped playing his poker face and got Shkodran Mustafi and Lucas Pérez to put pen to paper at the Emirates. The transfer window always leaves a mixture of emotions as people are left baffled, excited, fru...[Read More]

Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 3 Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 3. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another season of Fantasy Premier League! While I’m sure most of you remember the pain and agony from last season’s FPL start, when conventional FPL wisdom was thrown out the window and mere mortals – aka FPL noobs – made impulsive transfers and rash decisions and soared above experienced FPL players early on and throughout most of the season. It seems that the FPL Gods have been kinder to us this time around as the start of the season has been considerably nicer to us, with several of the premium players – Ibrahimovic, Aguero, Hazard – as well as some of the budget picks – Gray, Negredo, Redmond, Lamela – delivering FPL points from the get-go....[Read More]

Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 2 Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 2. Man is it good to have fantasy football back!! Everything just seems slightly better in the world; red lights don’t last as long, my cooking tastes better, the missus’ incessant nagging actually sometimes seems to have a valid point… apart from when it’s about FPL: “Why do you even play that stupid game?” I can’t even… But yeah, we’re back in the saddle again and life is good. The awful new colour scheme is even starting to grow on me. I’d forgotten about the horror of not owning any Monday night players though; you’ve got to love a guaranteed 15k drop in the rankings. Chips have already been played, both accidentall...[Read More]

Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 1 Welcome to Fantasy Premier League Captain Picks Game-week 1 Pre-season friendlies are bizarre affairs. They give Pep, Jose, Jurgen et al the chance to manage their teams like Frank Zappa would probably play Football Manager. Team sheets read akin to the mad ramblings of a deranged coach trolling fans because, “It’s pre-season so if I want Dave from Marketing at left-back, you can’t stop me”. Things escalate further during the game itself, as personnel are rotated in and out like the hokey-cokey shaking it all about on LSD. The 4th official, overworked by a myriad of substitutions, froths uncontrollably at the mouth and falls limply to the turf, incapacitated. Eventually the game stumbles to a shambolic ‘controll...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 37 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 So here we are. The home stretch. The finish line of the fantasy footballing season from hell now well and truly in sight. At least for the small handful of the 3.7 million registered “fantasisers” who are still “active” and still “playing”. Just reach out and “touch” it! Actually, I better stop there, for fear LVG may be “watching”. LVG has proven in recent days that he’s quite the expert on certain non-football matters, especially those where descriptors such as “fantasisers”, “active”, “playing”, “touch” and “watching” are apt. As long I don’t take the opportunity to pull my own hair, hey Louis? I could go on, but I’m beginning to lose track of why I started this piece… Oh yeah, something about Captains. ...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 36 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 No doubles, no blanks, no fun. We’ve all been planning ahead… but not for this one! The captaincy decision still demands our attention though. Using the Triple Captain chip on Sanchez or Aguero for the recent double game-week went down a treat – they, of course, feature here once again – whilst giving the armband to Martial ended in tears: it’s a fine line that must be tread carefully every single time. This late stage of the season is a strange one; even Leeds have more to play for than half of these teams now. There’s a variety players here: those from teams that are still fighting for something, those with a double immediately after, those who’re playing Villa. Buffet. Sit back and relax...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 34 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 When a toddling infant hears the hoover starting in another room, the bell for last orders in the pub rings or whenever ‘pizza’ is brought in to my vicinity, some things in life stop you in your tracks. They may set your heart thumping, offer sobering clarity or fill you with excitement, anticipation or even fear (it could be Hawaiian urgh). For a range of such emotions in the fantasy world we have double game-weeks. If you are new to the game, this is where teams play two matches within the same game-week and offers your players double chance to score points. Imagine that multiplied by ten, add in the fact some can tailor their squad to suit via a wildcard or can utilise the Bench Boost chip meaning all FIF...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 33 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Gameweek 32 saw some unfamiliar faces get the headlines. Chelsea’s Pedro finally rewarded those loyal few who had kept faith in him since… Gameweek 1 with 16 points. Any suggestions to captain Morgan would’ve been considered rather rum, but a storming header and clean sheet combo from Leicester’s skipper gave the Foxes 3 points and FPL owners 15. Alexis Sanchez, being one of the more mainstream picks, boosted many a ranking with his goal, assist and bonus points haul. In fact, last week’s Captain Picks writer Guy Sanchez put in perhaps THE most impressive performance, with all 4 of his choices scoring at least 7 points. No pressure this week, then. Onto this week and Gameweek 33...[Read More]