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FF247 Site Team Game-week 7 FPL Tips Welcome to the FF247 Site Team Game-week 7 FPL Tips article. Can we wildcard every week? Playing our wildcard last week certainly had the desired short-term effect, hopefully it also pays dividends over the coming game-weeks! We picked up 67pts which was 22pts above the average and this saw us jump back up from a rank of 262,127 to 91,692. The standout performers were undoubtedly Sergio Aguero, whom we had captained, and Alexis Sanchez. Elsewhere we had contributions from Petr Cech, Raheem Sterling and Marcus Rashford. Having brought Etienne Capoue in on our wildcard and more significantly as our 4th midfielder he blanked for just the 2nd time this season. We were not impressed. Yet again we were trolled by Romelu Lukaku. The Belgian had picked up 29pts...[Read More]

Around the Grounds FPL Team News Gameweek 7 We are delighted to announce that this week there will not be an official Around the Grounds article. Delighted you say? Well yes, we say. Let us explain. Your usual roving reporter, the esteemed Cookie, has been a bit busy this week, to say the least. Now whilst most middle aged men are starting to wonder what to do with the spare bedroom once the eldest finally buggers off to University our Cookie lives life a little differently. To say the least. He’s been turning the spare bedroom into a nursery… Ah, surely for his grandchildren then you say? Nope… We are officially delighted to announce the arrival of Cookie’s latest additions to his growing brood. Yes, that’s plural! Many congratulations from all at FF247 to Mr...[Read More]

MLS GW28 Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer Last week’s Round 27 predictably broke people down. The average score was a paltry 39 points, and for many people there was nothing they could do about it. But now that the massive bye weeks have passed (at least for a while), owners can now completely blow up their teams with a smart wildcard and enjoy some of these DGW matches we have on hand for this week. That being said, this is still the MLS, so many of the players you may have wanted to buy are still out on international duty for this round – and there’s no guarantee that they will play next round upon returning because maybe their club coach will think they need more rest (just look at what happened to Robbie Keane this week after playing his last game for Ireland). We should expect t...[Read More]

New Signings – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Spurs, Stoke, Sunderland, West Brom. Part two of our look at the major Deadline Day signings includes one of the major transfers of the day as Everton and Spurs fought it out for Toon midfielder Moussa Sissoko – Spurs eventually won that race with just minutes left of the window. Daniel Levy also splashed the cash for French youngster Georges-Kevin Nkoudou. Mark Hughes was busy at Stoke as he completed loan deals for Wilfried Bony and Bruno Martins Indi as they attempt to lift themselves up the league. Sunderland continue to try and lift the gloom and they took Man City defender Jason Denayer on loan whilst also buying Didier Ndong from Lorient, while Tony Pulis suffered a frustrating day but did clinch the services of free agent H...[Read More]

MLS GW27 Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer I have to say, on a personal note, even I was surprised by how ‘MLS-y’ the MLS was this past weekend. Just when you think that you’re starting to get a hold on some things, everything is turned on its head again. And here’s the big news: the game is now not so far out of reach for many people as it was before. In case you missed it, Giovinco was injured pretty badly and will be out for a month (maybe more); and what that injury means for the game is staggering. But this being the MLS, the Giovinco injury is just the tip of the iceberg. We’ve got a slew of other injured players, bye weeks and international duty to worry about too – all at the same time. And with no FPL to worry about this weekend, you may as well attempt to set an FMLS roster ...[Read More]

Fantasy Premier League 2016-17 Pre-Season Round up Hellllllooooooooo FPL’ers! We’re back. It is that time of the year again when we begin to look ahead to how our 20 Premier League teams are preparing for this the most potentially cash-laden, superstar-fuelled, world class manager-jewelled season in history. FPL will again afford us the chance to back our favourite players (which is of course price-dependent – but that’s for another article) but we need to know that they will be playing in a position worth having them, that they are in form, and more exciting perhaps, where the next bargain of the ‘Alli, Mahrez, Payet, Vardy’ ilk are to be found. And so to assist us along the way this article is intended as a pre-season scrap book where we intend to reco...[Read More]

Best #FPL picks from the promoted teams – Burnley, Hull and Middlesbrough – Fantasy Premier League 2016/17. Living in Japan I’m always fascinated by the trends that transcend the East-West cultural abyss. This stratovolcanic archipelago (thanks Wikipedia) gave the world sushi, karate and talking robots. In return it got Starbucks, the atomic bomb and Shed Seven. Well, now there’s a new Japanese phenomenon zombifying the mass populous. In ‘Pokemon Go’, armed only with a smartphone, you must physically navigate real-life streets, trespass private fields and probably traverse active volcanoes to grab virtual Pokemon characters. Unexpected add-ons include game-players falling down open manholes, ambling through moving traffic and being lured into abandoned c...[Read More]

MLS GW18 / 19 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer This weeks deadline is Wed 13th July 7.00PM EDT. That’s American time – add 5 hours here in the UK! This article is a day late, and that lateness is doubly bad because GW18 will kick off around a day after this article is posted, and GW19 will kick off just two days after that. But here’s the deal, I was sick yesterday. Honestly, I never thought that people who claimed that they caught a flu in the summer were telling the truth – but I caught the flu in the middle of July. But seeing as how I am one of the eternal optimists that this world has ever known, there are a few positives that I’ve taken out of my experience. First of all, cold/flu medication is much cheaper in the summertime, so aside from burning a day of v...[Read More]

MLS GW14 – Tips Fantasy Major League Soccer Surprise everybody, MLS is back this weekend. Right in the middle of all of the other truly great international competitions going on, we have a round of MLS action that will, by and large, go by unnoticed. Now this isn’t so much a criticism of the MLS schedule and their methodology of trying to compete for TV viewers against better footballing options (though I have made that criticism in other forums) – but this is rather a call to action for those savvy enough to realize that they have an opportunity here to gain ground in the MLS league while other players are focused on other things. Maybe your Euro fantasy team is already in the dumpster (I captained Greizmann right off the bat and could never wake up early enough to switch my c...[Read More]