Fantasy Football Captain Picks

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 15 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 And welcome to GW15. Here are our Captains Picks… Spoiler alert. There’s no Diego Costa* in this top 5. There’s a good reason for this. Yes, if your team doesn’t have him then you’re taking a huge risk. But his complete lack of assists this season and recent dearth of bonus points mean that his returns have become rather one dimensional. He hasn’t amassed above 7 points since GW4. Furthermore, in all 4 of his games back from his latest injury he failed to make it to the final whistle. One wonders how many extra chances the tireless Hazard, Fabregas and Oscar may have gifted him against the flagging defences of QPR, Liverpool, West Brom and Sunderland in the dying embers of a gam...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 13 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 There’s no time for fluffy introductions this week guys and gals. No, no, no. This week we’re just talking hardcore fantasy football FACTS and STATS! No personal stuff just to help hit a word count target. No chance. Just an article full of statistic after statistic to help you make the right captain choice for this week. That’s what matters to you, and so that’s what matters to me. No waffle. Just facts. There’s no time to reminisce anymore about my glory days on the Saffron Walden High School playing fields. Nope, they’ll be none of that this week. We’ll be far too deeply engrossed in Shots-on-Goal %’s to worry about the rest of my story from last time out, where my team eventually won a match that went do...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 12 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 What a wonderful time to have the opportunity to write an article for our great site. Although we didn’t win at the Football Blogging Awards this week, our stock has probably never been higher and I would personally like to place on record my appreciation for the time offered and dedication selflessly shown by our band of fantasy figureheads. They descended upon the National Football Museum in Manchester on Thursday to represent very smartly, the FF247 name. And whilst the local lads Init, B-Bash and Muts chucked on a shirt and rolled out the door five minutes before curtains up, some came by train and left with train (and hangover), our Erasure-loving Rich*. Some came by air, namely Kop and Calvin (Easyjet)...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 11 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Greetings travellers, today we take another step into the world of captain possibilities. We will search the four corners of FPL captaincy – form, fixtures, risk, and luck – in order to bring you the best options out there, so come explore with us. But what type of explorer are you? Magellan – professional and thorough; Columbus – gets completely lost; Marco Polo – it’s all just a big game; or Internet Explorer – boring but gets the job done. Regardless of your style, we have the captain choice for you, and are here to guide you through the tough terrain of being an FPL manager and hopefully see you end up with a mighty score this gameweek, which all starts with sele...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 10 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Hallowe’en is a time when ostensibly sane people wear a Scream mask and carve a stupid face into a large orange cucurbita fruit. The really dedicated step beyond the fantasy and embrace paranormal phenomena, perhaps by ghost hunting or gathering the family around a Ouija board. That being said, I don’t think anyone expected Liverpool to get a clean sheet on Saturday. Keeping in spirit (gone early there, sorry) with things, this week’s Captain Picks celebrates the spooky season through the medium of word alchemy. Have fun trying to spot all the gory puns, but don’t try it at home. It’s addictive and can be hard to Hallo-ween yourself off. Speaking of scary looking individuals ...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 9 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 So there I was. A sunny Friday in the spring of 1996. Saffron Walden County High School playing fields. Lunchtime. A slight figure of a 16 year old, desperately needing to finish the week with a win. It was my turn to be captain, and I’d won the toss to pick first. I surveyed the crop of young men standing in front of me. Who would be first into my team? Who could ensure my bragging rights through free period after lunch, through double Geography and – if my fake ID held up to scrutiny – through a Friday night’s drinking in the White Horse? Decisions just didn’t get bigger than this. Stuart was the obvious choice, but as I looked at him, something just didn’t look right. I knew the problem couldn’t be m...[Read More]

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 8 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 Well it is my turn again. Being the clever cookie (oxymoron?) who innocently but strategically ‘volunteered’ to go 4th, 8th 12th etc. and whose first two articles just so happened to fall over two international breaks so he could have more time to prepare his article, may I just say that I in fact now hate international breaks. Why? Read on . . . I’m writing here hoping that no one (else!) gets injured during my typing now or up until my Monday deadline as this will cause me a last-minute re-jig of article. Lovely. Anyone injured in the game taking place on Tuesday, I get to pass blame onto my deadline-loving, ball-breaking editor. Nice.

Captains Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 7 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 An ageing board of directors, a squad in decline, and a deep laceration – all situations that require fresh blood. Not so with the Captains Picks articles though, where Chins and Bellies, Bryan Munich and The Gallant Pioneer have been doing us all proud up until this point, so quite what I’m doing here remains to be seen; I suspect I’ve been drafted in to make them look even better by comparison. Now, in all the furore of weekly transfers and unused wildcards being mulled over, the captain choice is very often overlooked until the last moment. How often do we see cries of panic on the boards and on twitter between 11.00 and 11.30 in the AM on a Saturday morning asking whether so and so has m...[Read More]

Captain’s Picks Fantasy Football Gameweek 6 – Fantasy Premier League 2014/15 We’ve all been there. “If only there were two of me.” Your multiple selves could alternate going to work or if you’re workaholics get a job each and rake in twice the pay. You could step out onto the tennis court and practice both your serve and return in the same exchange. Heck, you could even become the next Proclaimers. With so many benefits, is it any wonder Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection? Last week two FPL bosses, we’ll call them Joe and Joel to avoid confusion, were locked in a Banterbury H2H battle. Joe was riding a wave of euphoria after bagging Jamie Vardy’s 21 points. He’d surged up the global rankings and life was good. Sipping on a c...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captains Picks Gameweek 5 23.93%. That’s almost a quarter. (Grade A, GCSE Maths.) That’s how many voters in last week’s FF247 poll said they planned to captain Raheem Sterling. And that’s without including the 8 jokers that “said” they were going to captain Dwight Gayle. If we extrapolate that % out across the entire FPL population, that’s a whopping 773,435 people trusting the armband to young Raheem. That’s roughly the same number of people that live in Leeds, Marseille, Hamamatsu (Japan – for Bry), or my very own Fort Worth, TX. Or to put it another way, that’s the minimum number of Christmas cards that Brendan Rodgers won’t be receiving this year. 2 measly points. Two. From a captain. Pathetic. Anyway. Let’s pretend for a moment that not everyone will be captaining Cos...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captains Picks Gameweek 4 When asked by the FF247 beaks if I would like to help out with the captains article, without a moments hesitation I said ‘yes’. Then a few minutes later I thought… I HATE the captain rule. Absolutely essential to the game I admit and I would never want to see it taken away but are you like me? Do you see the ‘Team of the Week’ being boosted by a relegation-haunted reserve centre back with a captain’s armband on, who has just scored the first two goals in his career and kept a clean sheet against the strongest team in the league and some guy down in 3 quillionth place rises a zillion places because of it? And you think? How? How can you possibly have captained him? Just me? OK let’s go…