Fantasy Football Tips

Grab, Avoid or Bore off! Welcome to another installment of Grab, Avoid or Bore off for the 2015-16 season. As always we will tackle some of the most important questions in FPL, like is your spouse worth having if Pelle was available? After we tackle some of those hard hitting questions we might get silly and answer questions about Ozil, Aguero and others and it how it relates to FPL, time permitting. As I gathered the 3 Amigos this week, I noticed an air of grumpiness in the lads. Well, Kop was grumpy, the other two were their usual self. Come to think of it, grumpy is Kop’s modus-operandi so I guess everything was as expected. Init is forever optimistic, but always willing to lay into someone, Cookie is as always waiting for the other shoe to drop as he is eternally pessimistic abou...[Read More]

Time for a differential – Fantasy Football Game-week 13 [three_fourth padding=”0 20px 0 0″] View image | gettyimages.com [/three_fourth]When we sat back and considered who the ultimate cheap differential has been over the years in fantasy football one man stood out head and shoulders above the crowd. Of course he wasn’t a differential for that long but certainly those who were on that early Michu bandwagon were laughing all the way to the fantasy bank. And it seemed only fitting this week to give a nod to the man who coined the phrase ‘finding the next Michu’ as he finally severed ties with Swansea and ultimately our fantasy lives. And so we thought we’d use the international break to take a look at some current FPL differentials – some players who have ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 12 Back in the early days of fantasy football the internet was in it’s infancy and actually the most popular games were newspaper led and you had to fill in a form, cut it out, send it off, hope it arrived and then wait for Monday’s edition to see how your team fared. Of course you had to figure that out for yourself as they would simply list the players scores and if you were lucky they would publish the top 10 managers for that week. Thankfully things have moved on a bit. Sort of. Once the internet got a hold of fantasy football you started to see the odd tips article but it was still basic stuff. Usually a player or two from each position and if you were super lucky maybe even a sentence to justify it! Things picked up gradually and one or two...[Read More]

Kops Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 11 Another game-week another introduction to write! If you haven’t worked it out by now I don’t particularly enjoy writing the introduction every week, so much so that I might just start reviewing films, TV shows or whatever else tickles my fancy in any given week, and I’m even open to suggestions. But for now I’d best stick to FPL! So let me make a number of broad observations based on the opening 10 game-weeks. At the back, the old reliables are coming to the fore with City, Arsenal & West Brom having multiple entries in the top 10 scoring defenders. In midfield it’s unsurprisingly a lot more fractious, what is surprising is the fact that Payet, Mahrez, Ayew & Wijnaldum all feature in the top 5 scoring midfielders. Up front it’s been the seaso...[Read More]

Kops Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 10 Great Scott!! It’s hard to believe that Back to the Future is 30 years old this year, makes you feel old, doesn’t it? With today being ‘Back to the Future’ day it got me thinking, wouldn’t it be great if we had an FPL DeLorean? We’d all have had Jamie Vardy from the start and we’d all have captained Georginio Wijnaldum last weekend, ok so we may not have captained Wijnaldum because even with the aid of time travel no one would have believed Newcastle would score six. However we don’t have the luxury of a DeLorean with a flux capacitor so we must do with the old reliables consisting of stats, form & fixtures, although depending on how you use them you may consider them to be unreliable. Luckily you guys have us and we’ve spent the last week studyi...[Read More]

Kops Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 9 After a tough start to the season fantasy managers around the globe were in desperate need of something special to ignite their season and then GW8 happened and in particular Sergio Aguero happened. The Argentine scored five times against a hapless Newcastle team and those who captained him raked in an incredible 50 points… spare a thought for those who didn’t captain and have chuckle at those who didn’t even own him! This prompted a significant number of managers to take an early dip into the transfer market as his price was surely going to increase. And increase it did, unfortunately Aguero has picked up a serious injury and these managers are left with egg on their faces. I won’t point out the moral of the story, you all know it already. The ...[Read More]

Differentials Explored Fantasy Football Game-week 9 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16 The moral of this article is to perhaps be careful what you say in the comments section sometimes, as one wrong move can find you stuck behind a keyboard for two days flat rueing something as simple as asking “Hey, FF247, can we have a differentials article please”. Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth we of course said yes you can. When you write it. Some would have laughed it off and said fair enough but to the credit of Pancho he took it as a challenge and only went and wrote one. And it’s a good one too. Hence you sitting here now reading it. Hats off to community regular and now article debutant Pancho as he presents you with his differential picks for the weeks ahead. T...[Read More]

Grab, Avoid or Bore off! Welcome to our second installment of Grab, Avoid or Bore off for the 2015-16 season. For those new to the site, it is a simple question and answer segment that covers everything from the serious to the absurd. So why do we call it that? Tradition, is the easy answer as we basically have veered so far off course that it barely has any resemblance to the original format. Thanks to our members for some of the ideas on the questions, we tried to include most of them or some semblance of them. Well enough of the small talk from me, let’s see what the girls have to say about a number of topics ranging from FPL dilemmas to who is cuter?

Kops Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 8 Where do I begin? Seriously I’m at a loss at how best to describe the opening seven game-weeks of the season. Words such as carnage, disaster & catastrophe spring to mind but I’m not sure if they would do it justice. In previous seasons we had the old reliables who performed week in week out, they formed the bedrock of your team and you filled the rest in around them. Sergio Aguero has scored once in seven games and this is despite City having scored 13 goals. Last season’s player of the season Eden Hazard has managed just a goal & two assists, the least said about Chelsea the better. Aleksandar Kolarov scored 46 points in the opening five game-weeks which led to a mad scramble to get him in, in the last two game-weeks he’s scored nothing. I c...[Read More]

Kops Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 7 First of all a massive thanks to both Calvin & Bryan for doing such a wonderful job with the tips article over the last two weeks, while I enjoyed the odd Sagres. Either of you fancy the gig on a fulltime basis?! So what’s happened in my absence? Well Bry’s mate Jez Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour party. Apple released yet another update. The rugby World Cup has kicked off. And what about FPL? Well that’s still an unpredictable mess. There’s a rumour doing the rounds that a template team has formed, however that very same rumour also suggests that said template team is s**t and with this in mind we’ve decided to take a look at a number of differentials this week. As Ewan McGregor once said, Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a car...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 6 It illustrates just how troubled the waters beneath Stamford Bridge are at the moment for Chelsea that no-one, from a team that cruised to the Premier League crown last year, is being considered a ‘must-have’ this season. In fact, barring Pedro and the budget friendly Begovic, few FPL squads have any Blues representation. Sure, Jose will be hurt by the defeats; he’ll be smarting at the defensive lapses; he’ll be befuddled by key players’ complete lack of form; but you know what will leave the Portuguese inconsolably crestfallen? That none of his men feature in this week’s Fantasy Football 247 Tips article. What fickle beasts we all are. Shame on you.

Fantasy Football Tips Game-week 5 Right then, hopefully this here international break will have been long enough for our FPL players to put down whatever it is they’ve been taking that’s messed up their systems and have a nice long word with themselves so that normal service can resume. This whole unpredictable shtick has gone on long enough! When the GW4 Dreamteam can be purchased for a paltry 65.3M then you know something is amiss. That’s not to say that big-hitters haven’t shot blanks before, or that budget-friendly options haven’t scored well previously, but it is certainly one of the stranger FPL starts in memory when these things happen en masse as they have done in the first four GWs. The 5 most expensive forwards (excluding Daniel Sturridge) have playe...[Read More]