Fantasy Football Captain Picks

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 17 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 I’ve been summoned out of my winter slumber to provide this captains article to you all. Some of you may remember that I would write the weekly MLS column here… but since my Portland Timbers won the title, everything has been a bit foggy (could be the scotch or actual Portland fog), and I have to wonder if the events of this last year actually happened. But they assure me that I was indeed a writer here at one point, and that I’m signed on to be a writer for a while into the future. I think we celebrated a wee bit much here, because I may have already forgotten how to blog and craft an article. But they wanted me back anyway, so let’s see how this goes. Now before I give my picks, you may also recall t...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 16 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 We often consider the captain choice to be a personal affair, we don’t know why really, but we often shy from pushing someone in a particular direction when asked directly, either on here or on twitter. It just feels more ‘personal’ and perhaps that’s because the choice is often, and ultimately, the most important decision of the week. It feels like a gut call but what we do here each week is offer up the 4/5/6 (sometimes 10, depends who’s writing!) best possible options and present a reasonable argument in favour of each. After that we leave it up to you. This week we’ve gone a bit different and asked the former members of the FF247 site team panel (you don’t know t...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 15 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 As a few of you are aware, I moved to the States earlier this year (California since you asked), and things are pretty different over here. On the plus side, turning right on a red light is one of the best things ever, there’s actually a better selection of earl grey here than back home, and I can’t remember the last time I needed to wear a jumper. On the other hand, almost-obligatory tipping of 15-20% is ridiculous, seeing a good deal but then remembering you have to add the tax sucks, and the Premier League is mostly played in the middle of the night. It’s a real bummer. Once in a while we’ll get down to a local bar for breakfast and catch the late afternoon games or a Champion̵...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 14 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Captain Picks for Game-week 14! Many of you still find yourself lower in the rankings than you are used to at this point (yours truly included), hence choosing the right captain week in and week out will prove a vital part of whether or not you will be able to resurrect your FPL pride. Luckily for you, we here at FF247 are here to help you with this endeavour! For all of you still struggling, remember that the seasoned veterans have underperformed so far as well while the noobs have enjoyed an unrealistic positive start to their FPL campaign (in fact, my room mate is ranked 23k in his first season while I’m cleaning his boots at 367k!). Also, you could choose the most rati...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 13 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Wake up! It’s already mid-week and there are FPL points to be had this weekend. I remember that we were also coming out of an international break the last time FF247 handed me the reins on this article – however, that was during the first one, back when we were all still feeling relatively fresh and optimistic – now I suspect that many of us feel about as fresh as Alexis and that much of our optimism has disappeared like Hazard at home to Liverpool. We have to re-motivate ourselves and believe that, over the coming weeks, we can strive up the leaderboards to rankings that many of us probably took for granted last season… To help with that, here are 5 of my captaincy recommendations for this weeke...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 12 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Welcome to the world of captains for Game-week 12. I often find myself pondering the little things in life. Why do we scrutinise the insignificant? We have all the time in the world but we always claim to be too busy to clear that room or meet that friend or send that email or pay that bill. More important to all that though, I have devoted most of my Sunday to working out why we complain when there are no decent captain picks and yet having too many seems just as bad. We seem these days, via a combination of fixtures and form, to be met with the latter. There is an abundance of choices and I have whittled it down to 20 for you. OK, five. Flavour of the week: Arouna Kone It seems with each passing week a hat...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 11 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Time. Some things seem to take an interminably long time to come to fruition: the Chilcot inquiry; Rooney’s next goal, or the end of a Manchester derby. Then there are things that happen routinely: Mourinho getting fined; Leeds Utd changing manager, or Artur Boruc scooping the ball into the path of a smirking opponent. Time, whether frozen or in fast-forward, is a precious commod….. Oh sod it. Did you see that FIFA presidential candidate’s name, Gianni Infantino? Hahahahaha. Oh my days. Sorry, couldn’t hold that in any longer. This week’s fixtures, in complete contrast to last week’s famine of choice, provide FPL managers with an embarrassment of riches to plunder. Free-fa...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 10 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Greetings from Australia, home of the most feared species on the planet: the Wallaby. In fact, I could be excused for thinking we were in July, being the time of year when the Southern Hemisphere’s Rugby Championship is played. I thought this was a World Cup? Anyhow, when I last presented to you (Gameweek 3), the earth stood on the precipice. Fantasy Football was in meltdown. FF247 was on its knees. Cookie Monsters and chickens (and other strange species) seemed destined to end up back at Sesame Street. The only remaining sensible approach to Fantasy Football was to delete your team, create a new profile, hit “autocomplete”, and sit back and watch the bargain basement likes of Mahrez, Ighalo, Vardy, Wilson e...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 9 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Well Aguero went and did me a solid by removing himself from the reckoning this GW; at home to injury-ravaged Bournemouth on the back of smashing 5 past McClaren’s sorry bunch, he’d have made this a very short article indeed. All tipping one player. Him. The fantasy Gods had other plans though, and us mere mortals just along for the ride must look elsewhere for our double or triple points, and I get to write a few more paragraphs. Meanwhile normal service has at last returned to FPL Land, with pricey players banging the goals in, managers being replaced, multiple injuries plaguing fantasy managers’ teams, and England both acing a qualifying group and being dumped out of a World Cup in the ro...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 8 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Let’s talk numbers. 12% of managers were happy this week. 1.7% of managers were ecstatic this week. 88% of managers looked at how they could transfer Sanchez in this week. 1.7% of managers laughed at 88% of managers and toasted themselves with a celebratory glass or two on Saturday evening… A captain often makes or breaks a game-week. Nail it and you are usually looking at a 20+ point haul. Fail it and you spend the week staring blankly / maniacally at your team with a 2 point captain trying desperately not to meet your gaze for fear of being axed or worse. Once in a while you not only nail it, you bloody well drill it in, industrial wall plug’s ‘an all. To illustrate the impact it can...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 7 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 After an upsetting start to the season, most experienced fantasy managers had expected things to return to normal by now, but that hope got quickly thrown out the window when West Ham ended City’s winning streak last round. In other news, Mahrez and Wilson are the top scorers of the Premier League with 5 goals each so far, while Aguero and Hazard have only scored once, with Sanchez not scoring at all. Frustrated fantasy managers continue to have low ranks while noobs and newbies ride on the top, hence some of you might be thinking about captaining some of these upstarts rather than relying on big names. Good luck then that I have several captain picks for you, covering both big names as well as some upstarts.