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.

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 35

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 35 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 35. This is my first Tips gig. Not prepared to be booed off stage, I re-read GP’s fantastic effort for Gameweek 34. GP’s article focused on using the Wildcard in Gameweek 34 with the Bench Boost chip in mind for Gameweek 35. It dealt with everything you could have wanted from Tips for Gameweek 34; perfect. It also dealt with everything you could want from Tips for Gameweek 35; not so perfect (for me!). I thought about a similar format to GP’s – where I discuss my Wildcard selections from last week – but that felt like a comedian coming onto the stage at Live at the Apollo and repeating a joke the previous comedian had just told. That has first gig failure written all over it. Being realistic though, I cannot offer ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 34

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 34 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 34. Hello everyone and again it is upon yours truly to try to get you the best possible tips for the next few weeks of FPL. Alas as well, I have activated my own wildcard this week (immediately as the ‘new’ Game-week opened in fact) and I now have a platform to talk about it which is both a pleasure and cathartic. So rather than waffle on about everyone who has potential to be in an article – and also for the fact that I can’t be bothered coming up and researching statistics on copious amounts of players which is too much like hard work – I thought I would fully disclose my wildcard selections in the form of this week’s article. After all, each time when writing a Tips article, I’m really looking at it through the ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 33

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 33 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 33. GW33 provides us with the 3rd blank game-week of the season and muggins here is on Tips duty for the 2nd time in a blank game-week. Maybe someone is trying to tell me something? Now you’d think that with fewer teams playing that it is easier to tip players as there is a smaller pool to pick from but unfortunately it’s not that straightforward. Let’s take BGW31 as an example. As you might remember, Liverpool were going to batter Fulham, Wilson & Fraser were going to lead Newcastle on a merry dance, Arnie was going to terminate Huddersfield, Jamie Vardy was going to have yet another party while Hazard was going to rediscover some form. In the end none of this happened. Just four players reached double figures...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 32

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 32 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 32. We’ve waited all season for the madness of double game-week fever to kick off. Well, folks its finally arrived. For many its time to unleash those chips you’ve kept safely tucked in your back pocket for this very occasion, for others its time to pop down to Sofa World and buy the biggest three-piece money can buy. Stats on Twitter suggest that the following chips have thus far been played this game-week: 103,947 Triple Captain 38,354 – Wildcard 79,081 – Free Hit 49,218 – Bench Boost So as you can see, even if you discount that Egyptian bloke who makes 150 new teams each week in the hope of winning a sweat-band, there are going to many people who simply are not playing a chip; game on! Whether you’re on your FH,...[Read More]

Three Budget Striking Options That Could Finish The Season Strongly

Three Budget Striking Options That Could Finish The Season Strongly The remarkable form of Raul Jimenez and the resurgence of Marcus Rashford has given fantasy football managers a wealth of striking options, with the low cost of those forwards granting flexibility when choosing a potent front three. Both Jimenez and Rashford have strong run-ins with double gameweeks aplenty, so managers might be reluctant to discard. It could be the premium strikers that are cast aside for cheaper alternatives, to allow for greater investment in midfield options with which to the end the season. Here are three budget striking options worth considering, whether as replacements or supplements for the likes of Jimenez and Rashford. Glenn Murray, £6.3 Source: Brighton & Hove Albion FC via Facebook. Murray...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 31

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 31 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 31. Into the business end of the season we go and this round is very much the famine before the feast, with what is widely thought to be two double gameweeks on the horizon – 32 and, most likely, 35 – with the shortened Gameweek 33 stuck in the middle, presenting great opportunities for the chips you have left. Various predictions are currently flying around for rescheduled fixtures, however we won’t know for certain until after next weekend, once the FA Cup quarter final ties have been played. It does, however, look like similar teams will miss out on playing both this week and then again two weeks later, so this article will focus on the players that are good for both, as things currently stand. Many FPL managers...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 30

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 30 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 30. First off, a quotation: “As for giving tips on how to navigate your chips and transfers to accommodate the blank, I’ll defer that to the writers later this week” Guy Sanchez, FF247, 4th March 2019 Way to try to shift the blame Guy – I loved your article, but my heart sank when I read that! Anyway, so, if you’re looking for answers on chip strategy I’LL DEFER THAT TO THE WRITERS NEXT WEEK. Of course, you could have a look at Mito’s chip strategy for some ideas. You can find that here: here So then, Gameweek 30 is now upon us and it’s the last ‘proper’ FPL week before we enter the beginning of silly season with our first BGW (or Blank Gameweek) which will take place in Gameweek 31. After BGW31 it will be followed...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 27

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 27 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 27. We really are getting into the business end of the season as we decide how best to utilise our remaining chips in an attempt to deal with the blanks & doubles. For the purposes of this article I’m not going to attempt to put forward a chip strategy, I’m sure someone much smarter than I will do so at some stage. In fact, Mito already has an excellent chip strategy outlined in Hot Topics. I will make reference to the blanks & doubles, and because of the blanks & doubles some of the players tipped below may or may not fit into your plans. For obvious reasons players from City, Chelsea, Everton & Brighton will not feature this week. Although a quick look at the transfers in for this game-weeks would...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 26

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 26 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 26. Everton v Man City brought GW25 to a close, and what a game-week it was. Some were heralding it as season-defining, and for some, this may indeed be the case with 50+ point swings creating shifts in ranks in Mini Leagues around the globe. In the weekend fixtures, it was strike one to those who had kept Hazard (I sold him for Sane 10 minutes before the deadline!) and/or captained (or TC) Aguero (I moved my (C) off Aguero when I did the aforementioned move). Those of us that handed Sane the armband (and again some with the Triple) could only look on with envious eyes and thoughts of ‘what if’. Speculation then moved to who would start in the first Double Game-week fixture of the season, those with Sane, crossing ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 24

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 24 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 24. Back to FPL action we go, after events over the past week have meant this article has been rewritten about three times, as my research has also used an unhealthy amount of highlighter pen! Before the first matches of Gameweek 24 even kick off, there has been the small matter of the League Cup, FA Cup and South Korea’s progress in the Asian Cup. I’m sure you know who I mean when I talk about the latter! There’s also the big news coming out on Sunday that, for Everton and Man City, there will be a double gameweek (DGW) in Gameweek 25 and a blank (BGW) in Gameweek 27. Going into DGW and BGW territory, you start to see changes in ranks between those who are unaware of these and us seasoned players who make up Excel...[Read More]

5 Golden Fantasy Premier League Tips

5 Golden Fantasy Premier League Tips Manchester City easily won the previous year’s Premier League trophy, but it is certainly not looking that easy for Pep Guardiola’s side this year. In fact, if they would have lost the Etihad match against Liverpool, then it would have been almost impossible for City to win the title. However, Manchester City is still in the title race because they won 2-1 against Liverpool. While Klopp’s side is currently facing a lot of injuries at the back. It is already turning out to be a very exciting Premier League season. For the league title, there is a tough competition between City and Liverpool while Tottenham Hotspur is also being considered as part of that competition. For the top four spots, Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea are try...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 23

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 23 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 23. My first article of 2019 and we are two weeks into it in game-week terms. How has it been for you? Well it started kind of same old same old for me with a Game-week rank of about 3.5 million (I took a hit) and then last week, Game-week 22, I had a rank of sub-80k (I didn’t hit). So don’t hit. There, that covers that. As you will perhaps remember from my last moan (sorry, article) I’m not having a particularly nice time this season, but the green shoots of recovery are there as I grasped the nettle and got Pogba and Rashford in immediately after they played Huddersfield (who have just announced their manager has left – who says this FPL writing game isn’t a 24-hour business?) and they are doing good stuff for me...[Read More]

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