Fantasy Football Tips

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 1 – Midfielders Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 1 – Midfielders I am a numbers man, always have been and always will be. The numbers that shout out loudly to me and should be shouting loudly out to you are 3-5-2. This is not just me saying this! This is the formation that you should be using this season according to the “Fantasy Experts”. Here more about that here: https://www.premierleague.com/news/3586721 With almost half of your starting eleven potentially being midfielders, if you get these five right, then you are probably off and running on a nice start to the season, a decent overall ranking, green arrows aplenty and surely a saved transfer or two along the way. If you get these five midfielders wrong, the overall ranking plummets...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 1 – Forwards Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 1 – Forwards We’re doing things a little differently to kick off this season’s tips articles. It’s a new season and we have at least 14 decisions to be made before the season opener on August 11th. So, we have not one but three tips articles coming your way. First, we have the strikers, and I’ve left no stone unturned as I aim to give you a comprehensive overview. With favourable pricing across the midfield, it seems that the go-to 343 of latter years has once more diminished in popularity and in truth, becoming harder than ever to justify. But does that mean we should go with just two or hell, just a lone man upfront? To answer that question, I’ve broken down the forwards into two categories;...[Read More]

Promoted Teams Analysis – Burnley Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Burnley Unlike Luton and similar to Sheffield United, most of us will know about Burnley so I won’t go into the history of the club but instead I will just go through their last visit to the Prem. A fair bit has changed at Turf Moor since we last saw The Clarets. In fact, forget about the Burnley we knew and loved as so much has changed that they are almost unrecognisable. No longer do we have the gruff but loveable Sean Dyche at the helm, they no longer play 4-4-2, they don’t just hoof the ball up and play Route One ball. The new man in the dugout has given a new lease of life to the players in Lancashire. Former Premier League stalwart, Vincent Kompany has moved over to England from his home country of Bel...[Read More]

Promoted Teams Analysis – Sheffield United Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Sheffield United Unlike Luton, most of us will know about Sheffield United so I won’t go into the history of the club but instead I will just go through the events since their last visit to the Premier League. Things have changed – but not everything. One thing that has changed is the man in the dugout. The last time The Blades were in the top-flight Chris Wilder was in charge of the team but since then Paul Heckingbottom has taken over the helm on a permanent basis. Heckingbottom was made interim manager before United were relegated back in 2019 but was not given the job permanently. The job was given to Slaviša Jokanović instead but he did not succed with Heckingbottom being given a proper shot at...[Read More]

Promoted Teams Analysis – Luton Welcome to Promoted Teams Analysis – Luton Here we go! Another season and another article about a new team. I love doing these articles, and to be perfectly honest, they are the ones I enjoy doing the most during the season. Not that I don’t like Tips, Captain Picks or anything else but I find this type of article helps me get into the fantasy mood and also gives me the chance to learn about new players coming into the league. Luton are an unknown quantity to the majority of us, so I thought I’d give you some history and background. I do love my history… after all I am a history teacher! Whilst doing my research I discovered Luton Town were created amidst some secrecy and fighting… love a bit of drama! The secretly formed “Luton Town” club were t...[Read More]

FF247 FPL Pre-Season Hub 2023-24 Welcome to FF247 FPL Pre-Season Hub 2023-24 Now that we are at the end of June (I know, right?), we will have to turn our attention to what our Premier League clubs have up their sleeves in terms of pre-season preparations for the forthcoming 2023-24 Premier League season. Most clubs return for initial health checks with training following around the 5th – 8th of July mark with additional time off given for those playing late into the final international break and even longer for those at the UEFA Under-21 tournament. Pre-season friendlies themselves, begin around the 10th – 12th July. We have listed below a run-down of the fixtures arranged at the time of publication which will be updated with additional fixtures when announced. As in previous ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Double Gameweek 29 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Double Gameweek 29 With 12 teams at the double, it’s quite a bumper GW. Wildcards, Bench Boosts, Free Hits and Triple Captains will be wielded this week, with reckless abandon. Wherever you sit in that particular portion of chips, or indeed find yourself in the gravy, having already used all of yours, and simply need to max out on DGW’ers, sit back and allow Init, Swirly and Matt to guide you through the best picks. Init – Keepers and Defenders It looks like a cracking and exciting week for picking midfielders and forwards…. a bit less so for this particular section! So much so that we had a queue of writers for the others, and exactly zero for this! So I said I’d step in. Not so much to...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Captain Picks Game week 25 Hello and welcome to DGW25! With another double-game week, we are presented with an excellent opportunity to deviate from the norm (Haaland, C). This does not come without risks in and of itself. We’ve seen it happen countless times over the years – single-game week players outscoring our doubles captain, and with Man City playing Bournemouth (A) we still expect Haaland to have an effective ownership of over 100%. So be warned. However, as the saying goes, you can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket! Rosco – Salah vs Palace (A), Wolves (H) So, who should you captain this DGW? With notable doubles for Liverpool and Arsenal, I believe that’s where most will be headed. Bukayo Saka will without doubt be the most captained and for ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 24 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 24. Play at casino not on Gamstop no deposit bonus instantly! In charge of your picks this week is OddDane, Swirly and Matt. Let’s see who they’ve selected. Goalkeepers & Defenders – by OddDane Let’s start out this week’s tips from the backline, it’s time for defenders and goalkeepers. Don’t worry we’ll keep it light… (Ha! Right…) Firstly – and this’ll come as a bit of a shock – when picking a points-worthy backline it helps to weigh in your odds for clean sheets and below is a summary of some of the top expected odds. These are loosely collected online and may not cover your preferred bookies’ odds, so do sense check yourself and as always – you are doing the picking, our (ill-advised)...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 23 And now for something completely different… Python may not quite be back on our screens but Basil is with Fawlty and as ever the madness that is our transfer window held plenty of classic comedic value. From Chelsea taking one look at Forest in the summer and saying “Hold My Beer”, 600 million pounds worth of beer, right to the other end of the spectrum and Everton’s board saying “Hold My Front Door (tightly shut, please butler)”. With such a bumper window, midweek fixtures, and having already done a fantastic Tips article last week to cover the upcoming games, we thought we would do something different and provide you with a bit of coverage / knowledge / back-story on some of the strange characters that will soon start ...[Read More]

Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 22 Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 22 Goalkeepers – Swirly “It’s not often you would have a £5.5m goalkeeper in your squad” is a saying that may a seasoned FPL manager would say, as you look back to Emi Martinez’s brilliant campaign a few seasons ago where he was an essential – and, if like me, you didn’t have him, also a rank killer! Step forward Nick Pope who seems to be the 2022-23 version of just a player, albeit with more of an FPL legendary status after his antics at Burnley that kept the Clarets in the Premier League for longer than they would have otherwise been. The stats speak for themselves when you’re looking for evidence of why he’s the second-most owned goalkeeper at the moment. Featuring in 24.9 per cent of squads – second only to Leiceste...[Read More]