Player Selection: The Back Four

Your choice of defenders heavily impact what you can do with the rest of your team, so it may be an idea to work backwards and select the strikers and midfielders first. My advice would be that you aren't looking for any defenders above 6.5 million and if you choose 4 defenders rather than 3, you're looking for one defender for under 5 million. If you've plucked for 5 at the back then I have no words...

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What If Bale Leaves?

The question I'm sure many fantasy football managers fear, but some will embrace it. The thing is, who is going to fill that Bale shaped hole left in the centre of your team? Well for starters, it depends on your formation. If like myself you're currently adopting the 4-5-1, it opens up the opportunity to resort back to everyone's favourite default formation, the 4-4-2. The list of striking options...

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Player Selection: The Goalkeeper

It's relatively simple what you want from a goalkeeper in fantasy football, and that's clean sheets. Unless you're relying on going all 'Mystic Meg' and predicting which keeper will score a fluke from his own box. Some FiT players will go for the most expensive keepers such as the likes of Hart and Cech, and while they are guaranteed to get you decent points, they will take quite a chunk out of your...

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Tactically Speaking: Which Formation Is Best?

I've heard it banded around that strikers are where the points will be at this season. But I'm going to have to disagree. Granted out of the top three point scorers last season, two were strikers. But in the Top 10, 6 were midfielders. So it's important not to overlook the fact that midfielders can be cheaper but just as effective as their striking counterparts. However! Don't for one second get the...

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Tactically Speaking: The First 6 Games

Instead of just picking the best players from the pool, I wondered if it would be a better idea to choose players from teams that have favourable opening fixtures. I did a few calculations (sounds way more impressive than it was). These were the scores (out of 18) for each team. Arsenal: 17 Aston Villa: 9 Cardiff: 8 Chelsea: 15 Crystal Palace: 7 Everton: 17 Fulham: 11 Hull: 9 Liverpool: 17 Man City: 17 Man Utd: 15 Newcastle: 12 Norwich: 8 Southampton: 9 Stoke: 12 Sunderland:...

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Right, let's do this

So I've basically drafted together a quick provisional squad that I've based off previous performances last season and my limited knowledge. Also realising that apparently £75 million is really quite easy to spend when you've picked the most expensive defenders going and then wonder why you only have £0.2 million left for a striker. So this is what I've come up with so far: It seems a reasonably...

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Football Hearsay Returns... Again

After my RVP prediction (Shameless plug here http://footballhearsay.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/rvp-saga-more-smart-management-from.html) I went into hiding for a year. However, the season is well over and Arsenal fans have stopped trying to brutally murder me. So I return, this time with a slightly different objective and that is to focus on my new found passion of fantasy football. This 'passion' of...

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