Fantasy Football Tips

The Tips article, which will be released on Thursdays, is where we take a look at which players should be considered for your team, both on a short-term and longer-term basis. While the more obvious football tips selections will, naturally, be included, we will also endeavour to find those hidden bargains and differentials that could set you apart from your rivals and help your performance in your mini-leagues.

To Free Hit, or not to Free Hit – BGW29

To Free Hit, or not to Free Hit – BGW29 Welcome to To Free Hit, or not to Free Hit – BGW29 Carrying on with our recent theme of asking the writing team to simply stick their own teams up, and then talk us through their plans to negotiate things like DGW’s, here comes the real challenging one – a BGW, with… 4 fixtures! And not particularly great ones at that. We have all heard the threats of Free Hit teams, and others saying they will simply live with whatever they can get from it, so now is ‘put up or shut up’ time. Show us your all singing, all dancing free hit wonders, or indeed the distinct lack of them. Oh, and give a brief explanation. Very brief. To Free Hit… GEAR Brief you say? Reason I’m on a Free Hit: See Jamie’s team bel...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Part 2

Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Welcome to Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 We last asked the team this sort of question ahead of DGW25 and BGW26. We felt it was pertinent to go to the well again with similar (ish) GW’s incoming – albeit with a much less enticing double and a much blanker blank. Let’s go see how they fared after the last debacle one and how they intend to tackle these upcoming ones. OddDane – £2.2m ITB – 1FT Alright, part two! The better, improved half of this segment. Or so you’d think. Usually, one saves the best for last, building suspense and showing the real gems in the end. Here you have my team instead – Ha! The story so far Since last time I’ve relied on the likes of KdBozo and Doku to save my week(s)… I even had a full starti...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Part 1

Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Part 1 Welcome to Negotiating DGW28 & BGW29 Part 1 We last asked the team this sort of question ahead of DGW25 and BGW26. We felt it was pertinent to go to the well again, with similar (ish) GW’s incoming – albeit with a much less enticing double and a much blanker blank. Let’s go see how they fared after the last debacle one and how they intend to tackle these upcoming ones. Rosco – £1.7m ITB – 1FT It’s fair to say things have not exactly gone to plan. That being said, anyone who has played this game long enough knows full well that planning often means very little. The ‘Man plans, god laughs’ quote comes to mind. My transfers in the last double-game week (selling Saka and Solanke for Darwin and Jota) blew up in my face. 2 we...[Read More]

UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2023/24

R16 – 2nd Leg DEADLINE: TUESDAY 5th MARCH 8:00pm UK Hello everyone and welcome back to UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2023/24. Next up are the 2nd leg ties of R16. All you really need to know for this one is that you have another 3 FREE TRANSFERS to use ahead of the deadline on Tuesday. In the Regs league Rosco still holds his lead but the whole top 8 are separated by just 39 points, so it’s still all to play for. The FF247 Regulars Leagues STANDINGS Rules We have left some of the key info in here, more as an easily found reminder – TRANSFERS Before R16 1st leg: Unlimited Before round of 16 2nd leg: 3 transfers Before quarter-final 1st leg: 5 transfers Before quarter-final 2nd leg: 3 transfers Before semi-final 1st leg: 5 transfers Before semi-final 2nd leg: 3 tra...[Read More]

Negotiating DGW25 and Blank GW26 Part 1

Negotiating DGW25 and Blank GW26 Part 1 A big(ish) DGW? All aboard! Choo, choo, etc… This one comes with a big caveat though; it is followed by BGW26. B being for Blank, not Bad, although either could be equally applied. Either way, it makes both very difficult to negotiate: Do you go all in on 25 and maximise its potential points? Do you do so knowing that you will simply leave a mess to contend with in 26? Do you find a fine balance instead? There is no right answer here (well, there will be, but we can’t reveal what that was until GW27!). All we can do is plan the best that we can, and of course then hope for the best. In the meantime we thought it may be helpful to ask a bunch of our team how exactly they are going to approach it all. In fact, they were so keen to share the...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 22

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 22 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 22 We are back after what feels like the longest game week EVER! Bloody hell did GW21 take forever to end. Spread over 10 days starting with the rescheduled GW2 fixture Burnley vs Luton which was as boring as it sounds finishing 1-1 and ending with an even more boring 0-0 draw between Brighton and Wolves…………….. Oops sorry I even fell asleep just typing that sentence! Thankfully there were some exciting games in the middle with the returns of KdB with a goal and assist, Toney with a goal and even Hojlund managed to get amongst the FPL points. Take a look below at the tips we have for you and see if they tickle your fancy! Defenders Diogo Dalot (5.1) vs Wolves (a) – Jamie Mc The tr...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 21

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 21 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 21 We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year; may all our arrows in 2024 be green. Well from the feast of three game weeks over a thirteen-day period, we go to a famine of just two game weeks throughout the whole of January due to the FA Cup 3rd and 4th Rounds and a Winter break scheduled over a two-week period during game week 21!!! There is further disruption to our squads due to players missing for the African Cup of Nations (13th January 24 – 11th February 24) and the Asia Cup (12th January 24 – 10th February 24). One final point to note…game week 21 deadline is now this FRIDAY 12th January 23 as the Burnley v Luton game has been rescheduled from the following Monday. Goalkeeper Ederson (5.5) ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 18

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 18 GW17 may still be open, at the time of writing, and we do of course wish Tom Lockyer and his family all the best in his recovery. But GW18 begins on Thursday, so we are off again already. This week brings its own challenges, with Man City and Brentford on a blank GW, and this being the first of three GW’s crammed into 13 days. Rest and rotation will of course become an issue along the way, and we cannot really help you with that. What we can help with is a few player picks to get you going on that journey. Goalkeeper: Petrovic (Swirly) Having already been posed the questions of “Who?” and “That’s a funny way to spell Dubravka” (who is also a good shout, of course), I will press ahead and make the case for Djordje Petrovi...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 17

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 17 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 17 Ok then, so the past few weeks have been a bit…. well, shit? That’s probably fair to say from a fantasy POV. The average for GW15 was 35, and it was 18 for GW16. 18!!! It does however stand that when everybody does poorly then it is of course all relative. But that doesn’t make it particularly exciting now, does it! Hopefully all that was just a blip and we start seeing some more action over the coming weeks. But probably not for Haaland… which in and of itself may actually mix things up a bit, and if nothing else we may all at least have have a few more quid to spend should we decide to cut ties with the big man for a wee while. Let’s go see where some of that could be spent. Goalk...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 14

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 14 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 14 One look at the Site Team sitting pretty near the top of the FPL charts and you’d be forgiven for thinking that this must therefore be THE place to come for weekly Player Tips. Ahem, well… erm. Look, we try. Some weeks we nail it, other weeks we call… GW13! Just as a recap then, we called out Sa who conceded 3 vs Fulham, Bowen who didn’t play due to injury, Awoniyi who got so injured he’s now out for 4 months, and Solanke who did bugger all, despite Bournemouth actually scoring 3! As for defenders we simply said ‘Urrrghhh’. Which, technically speaking, was our best and most accurate shout, albeit also a massively unhelpful one in the process. Let’s go see if we can...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 13

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 13 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 13 Those who have already cast an eye over their team ahead of GW13 will no doubt be fully aware that this looks like a difficult week ahead, mainly due to the fixture match-ups of many of the top teams. Man City v Liverpool, Spurs v Villa and Newcastle v Chelsea alone tie up a good many FPL assets to difficult looking games, and that’s not to mention the likes of Arsenal and Man Utd having less than straight-forward away trips. As such you may need one or two different options this week, and so here are our picks for each position for GW13. Goalkeeper – Jose Sa, by Jamie Mc Fantasy Football has been a bit of a struggle for me these past few game weeks. As a non Haaland owner, I dodged a massive bullet ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 11

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 11 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 11 We are spoiling you this week with both a Captains and a Tips Article, this being predominantly due to a Sunday finish/Saturday start between the gameweeks. Thanks to FPL for letting us breathe this week at least. Following on from the excellent Captains Article by Kop and Swirly, we now ask Matt, Stone Frog, Jamie Mc, Rosco, OddDane and Inittowinit to take a look at the options for your precious transfers. They did not disappoint. GOALKEEPER – Sam Johnstone vs Burnley (A) – (Matt) In the last 5 gameweeks, he has picked up a massive 28 points! This included 3 clean sheets in a row but then he conceded in 2 consecutive games but they were against Spurs and Newcastle. 6 goals in the last 2 games isn’t ...[Read More]

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