Fantasy Football Captain Picks

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.

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 6 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 In literary terms, there is a device that is often used called the “unreliable narrator”. You’re probably familiar with it — the person giving the view in the story tells you everything they think you need to know, and they tell it with absolute confidence. As the reader though, you quickly start to get the feel that the narrator can tend to exaggerate — or even not know when he’s wrong — but through it all, the narrator believes his story as being true. And so, due to his earnestness, the reader believes the story as well. I tell you this because my captain picks have been correct each and every week. You should know that right off the bat. The fact that my captains failed me during their m...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 5 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 This break needs to end! It’s hard to imagine life without our beloved FPL. Four gameweeks. Four 2-point captains. Four fails. Unless you captained Coutinho last gameweek – or triple captained him for that matter – you can’t be faring much worse than I am when it comes to choosing an FPL captain. So here’s a great idea! Take a glance at 5 of my recommendations. Try not to become too absorbed in it all though: reading my captaincy advice is arguably similar to sitting around in second-hand smoke (anyone seen Tekno lately? This ain’t fag smoke…) and probably won’t do your league rankings any favours. Then, preferably quite a while afterwards, go ahead and choose from the pool of players that I...[Read More]

Captain Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 4 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 If you captained Yaya Toure in Gameweek 1, Romelu Lukaku in Gameweek 2, Callum Wilson in Gameweek 3 or Riyad Mahrez in any of these weeks, congratulations! You are succeeding more than most. Some of us are holding on to Rooney’s “assist” in Gameweek 1 as the only time we got it sort of right. So on to the next chance we have – and I’m writing this off the back of two 4 point captain shows – so you may want to look away now, stick your fingers in your ears and pretend you never caught sight of this. I jest. Like the most optimistic (or sadistic) FPL players, I’m back for more. And this week I’m going to crack it.

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Game-week 2 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 Lewis Hamilton’s first lap demise from pole to fourth in Hungary; Channel 5’s shoestring ‘Football League highlights’ debut; a calamitous $26.2m box-office opening for ‘Fantastic Four’… No-one is immune from a bad start. Not you, certainly not I (please don’t ask), and not even Arsenal. A cursory look at last week’s Captain Poll reminds us how badly the mainstream choices let everyone down. Hazard, Walcott, Benteke, Aguero, Sterling, Costa, Memphis… the list goes on, and on. With 5 points, Rooney was a comparative saviour for many; while those willing to look past Sterling at Silva and Yaya were left purring smugly at the carnage below. But like a S...[Read More]