Fantasy Football Tips

FPL Tips GW17 to GW19 Welcome to FPL Tips GW17 to GW19 Christmas Craziness is upon us! Basically a match a day, four gameweeks over 16 days. I love this time of year for just watching football but it is a difficult time of year for FPL! FPL Managers have to deal with injuries popping up, rotation from the likes of Pep or just being too hungover to make the next deadline! We know you can use all the help you can get so we have combined some of the thoughts from OddDane, JamieMc and MattX. Our three not-so wise men! Will they lead you to glory by following a star or lead you to a steaming pile of donkey doo-doo? You can decide and let us know in GW20 when the dust settles! OddDane – Rearguarders Another week is upon us and it’s time to spin the wheel of scarce clean sheets to see if yo...[Read More]

FPL Tips GW12 Welcome to FPL Tips GW12 Goalkeepers With the final International Break of the year now over, we all move full steam ahead into a run of nine game weeks, with the feast of the Christmas/New Year schedule until we reach the famine of the 3rd Round of the FA Cup on Saturday 11th January 25. The goalkeeping position is a position that us fantasy managers do not want to spend too much money on and is very much a “set and forget.” Most managers will have a £4.5m and non-playing £4.0m goalkeeping duo or perhaps two rotating £4.5m goalkeepers depending on the fixtures of that particular game week. There has been eleven game weeks so far this season totalling 110 games with the 220 teams accounting for only forty-five clean sheets (20%) during the course of the season. To briefly sum...[Read More]

FPL Tips GW8 Welcome to FPL Tips GW8 Back to business, then, after another international break – or Nations League break if you prefer. Not that either are massively welcomed. I’m afraid there’s still a few more between now and Christmas as well. And that’s if you can even bear to think about the festive period yet as well. Anyway, dusting off our FPL teams after some time away, we can almost forget about any wasted wildcards, terrible transfers and ropey rotations in our squads. It’s still only Gameweek 8 and so early days in a season that’ll no doubt have many more twists and turns along the way. Goalkeepers Clean sheets are few and far between so far this season, with only 31 instances out of a possible 140 to date. Leading the way out of the shot sto...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 4 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 4 Whilst you have all been engrossed in the likes of Luxembourg 0-1 Belarus, and lapping up ‘Carsball’, or whatever, we have held a few writers under duress and forced them to come up with a few Tips for GW4 and beyond. Who knows, it may even help with some sneaky wildcards. DEFENDERS Dunk – Jamie Mc “And Smith Must Score,” one of the most iconic phrases in FA Cup Final commentary history. Well Smith did not score. Manchester United beat already relegated Brighton 4.0 in the replay of the 1983 FA Cup Final….and the rest is history. From the Goldstone Ground to Gillingham’s Priestfield Stadium to the Withdean Stadium to the AMEX. From the brink of relegation out of the Football League and their very existence u...[Read More]

FPL Tips GW2 Welcome to FPL Tips GW2 Rather than come at you with a whole list of players that you should suddenly pick up, after just the sample size of one GW, we have decided to offer up some quick-fire observations from the past weekend. More food for thought than anything else, really. More to discourage knee-jerk reactions than anything else, truth be told. We will then take a look at the FPL Team of the Week, in a similarly contemplative light. Talking of ‘knee-jerk’ we shall then look at the transfers in and out so far this week. WE shall then touch on Captain options ahead of GW2. GW1 Musings In Defence… Six of the ten games in GW1 produced a clean-sheet. Which is actually relatively high. Or it feels like it is anyway, sans any stats to actually back that up. So...[Read More]

FPL Tips GW1 Welcome to FPL Tips GW1 We’re back with part 2 of our GW1 ‘Tips’ article. This time we have GP, Kop and Stone Frog on duty to share their current GW1 drafts. Some familiar picks and some a little different. As you will see, there are plenty of ways to approach this season, hopefully this will make for a more exciting 24/25 season! Enjoy! The Gallant Pioneers – GP Goalkeepers Having given the goalkeepers the same amount of thought as most others, I’m still not sure if I am on the ones I will end up with come Friday’s deadline. One thing I know is that I will only be spending £8.5m on the pair as I require the cash elsewhere – that’s a given. Flekken & Valdimarsson could end up being Henderson & Matthews (assuming Johnstone is confirmed away). I ...[Read More]

FPL Tips GW1 Welcome to FPL Tips GW1 We’re kicking off the first of our regular weekly articles with a slight variation on the usual tips format. Essentially, this is my first FPL draft, created last night for you to all pull apart/copy/laugh at. Take your pick. My fellow contributors can attest to this being created the night before the Liverpool vs Sevilla match (before I get accused of jumping on the band waggon!), it was nice to see returns for one of my ‘differentials’, how long a certain Diogo stays a differential remains to be seen! We’re hopefully going to get a few more drafts from my fellow contrinbutors over the following days, along with our first captain’s article and of course the Site Team. It sure feels good to be back! Rosco FPL draft 1 When t...[Read More]

Promoted Teams Analysis – Leicester City Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Leicester City The final promoted side we are looking at are the former Cinderella story, Leicester City. They were trotting towards the Championship title last season and then seemed to lose their way a bit. They made it a lot tougher than it needed to be. They won 13 of their first 14 games and were sitting pretty. They slipped to third place by the end of February and were then fighting for the top spot, only winning the title by a single point. They had 97 points, scored 89 goals, conceded 41 and kept 15 clean sheets. Everything was looking nice and easy for their return, we knew who the players were, we knew the way they played, and most were predicting they would stay up easily. Alas that has all chan...[Read More]

Promoted Teams Analysis – Southampton Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Southampton The Saints didn’t have a massive fall from grace having risen back to the glory of the Premier League at the first time of asking. They did get stopped at the pearly gates for St Peter to check his guest list though, but Southampton was on the list with Leeds staying out. We will be looking at a different face in the dugout since last time they were in the Premier League as Hasenhuttl was sacked, Nathan Jones only last three months and Ruben Selles was only good enough for a caretaker job. Russell Martin was given the full time position before the start of last season and it worked massively. He came in and changed their style of play which proved the difference in the end. Formation – 5-3-2 ...[Read More]

Promoted Teams Analysis – Ipswich Town Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Ipswich Town I am delighted to see Ipswich in the top-flight for the first time since 2002. It has been a long two decades for a team with a brilliant nickname, “The Tractor Boys”. My country boy heart is loving these farmers. However, does this now make the Premier League the Farmers’ League? It may only be classed as a town, but they hold a claim to being one of the oldest towns in England so that’s cool! Anyone know how many Towns have played in the Premier League and who they are? Hint… I’m writing about one of them and another played only last year! Ipswich were one of the founders of the Premier League, having been in the inaugural 1992/93 season, so it is really great to see them back. They have ...[Read More]