Fantasy Football Tips

Here you’ll find a series of articles and guides that will hopefully help you during that crucial team selection lineup and even throughout the season. Click the links for each one to read the articles in full.

Season 2008-2009 Guides

Fantasy Football – A Beginners Guide

The place to start for those who are discovering fantasy football for the first time. It’s also a useful guide for those experienced players to hand out to new players in order to boost the numbers in a private league.
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General Team Selection

Updated for the new season, here’s an insight into general things to consider when selecting a lineup for the season looking generally at how you identify and more importantly, rule out players for your team.
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Selection Guide – The Keeper and Defence

Continuing my series of updated guides to help your selection process for the new fantasy season, I delve into the world of goalkeepers and their defences. If a lack of clean sheets keeps you awake at night, it might well be worth a read.
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Selection Guide – The Midfield

In this latest updated guide for the 2008-09 season, I take a look at selecting midfielders – the home of “big hitters”, undiscovered gems, sleeping giants and misclassified strikers. In other words it’s the one area of you side where a little inspiration with selection can really pay dividends.
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Fantasy Premier League Guides

Making Millions in the FPL

A guide to help introduce new Fantasy Premier League managers to concepts of rising and falling player values and tip off experienced managers on how they can go about predicting them using the factors at play. Written by Ryan Forsythe – an FPL manager who came top of the 2006-07 rich list with a team value of over 119.0 million.
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2007-2008 Season Review

The Goalkeepers

In my review of last season by position, I get the ball rolling with my view on the goalkeeping situation, where I question the investment options, whilst offering some early pointers on the shortlist for next season.
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The Defenders

The next chapter in my round-up of the 2007-08 fantasy season and it’s time to turn my attentions to the back four – the clean-sheet farmers who provide the regular returns while Ronaldo earns the big points up field.
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The Midfield

Continuing my look back at the 2007-08 fantasy season, it’s time to focus on the middle of the park where we find one player showboating his way to a goal-a-game record and threatening to break fantasy football in the process.
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The Forwards

The final part of my review of last season by position finds me setting my sights on the sharp end – the goal machines who command the big fees.
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2007-2008 Guides

General Player Selection

An insight into general things to consider when selecting a lineup for the season looking generally at how you identify and more importantly, rule out players for your team.
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Selecting a Keeper and Defence

Selecting a Goalkeeper and a set of Defenders is probably the least glamorous part of your Fantasy Football selection process. A good proportion of your defence and indeed, your goalkeeper, almost picks itself without the need of any masterstrokes on your part but here’s my theories on the do’s and don’ts.
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Selecting Midfielders

In this latest guide I take a look at selecting midfielders and talk through a process that can be used to narrow the player list and make it easier to compare players using a number of factors.
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Selecting Forwards

Having spouted no end of nonsense about the theories behind selecting Goalkeepers, Defenders and Midfielders, my fourth and final tips guide examines the fine art of selecting the Forward players that will win your leagues.
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