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First off quick update







We went from GW 12 to GW 18



At that point my points started picking up and I RTK have been first for several weeks including a 88 last week which I think is the highest score in our league up to date.



So on Gameweek 17 I busted into the top 3

This is GAME WEEK 18's results



Sparkfyre Axidiel won this week.

Tutorial

Ok with most players I see they drop points through inactivity


Injuries and bans - found on front page

You will notice the following red, orange and yellow info buttona which means the player is likely not to play in the following week.
Yellow - Possible
Light orange - 50 % chance of playing
light red - 25% chance of playing
red - unlikely to play and usually long term injuries.

Remember this is rich clubs with I assume good depth. So they would rather have a player recover totally rather than risking him being sidelined for a whole year. In most cases when there was doubt and even only a yellow info button. The player was rested. You might bench a yellow info player.

For example Vardy has been earmarked as possible but as he apparently ill I doubt whether they will risk him playing. So bench him for the week.

Lets look at a random team.



The Players whose team this is have too many red players meaning if further players get injured he cannot really substitute. Lets also look at their individual info[the I or info button - which also denotes injuries].



Antonia Valencias has scored little this year an average of less than 1 for the whole season places big doubts as to why he is anyway in that team. He has missed 11 games out of 18 if I look at his game history.

And the most important thing is he missed 8 of his last games. During that 8 weeks he could have been substituted a long time ago and have had some game time with the other player. Its the concept of the champion horse that never runs. So I assume the player might have been busy in rl and put that game on the backburner. Which is nothing wrong with.

Now lets look at one of my picks

Toby Alderweireld



who has scored 86 points total and 6 this game week. An average of 4.77

In the previous year he scored 88 during the season. Looking at his game history.



we can see how consistent he is. He is no rocket but he constantly scores over his average.

A defender is not a midfielder or forward so the game adjust for that and you get points for defending. Most notably clean sheets. Goals conceded also is subtracted from your score.

Chose if possible as many players from the teams that conceded the least amount of goals this year or just player with most points.

Next we go to another choice of mine:

Riyad Mahrez



Who is more of a rocket. As midfielder he scored 13 goals and his overall score of 149 points is an average of 8.2 per game week. Looking at the home page he has been the top player now twice in a couple of weeks. In fact Mayrez is the top point scorer in the fantasy league. So no brainer in choosing him.

Picking Players

So my whole strategy has been to eliminate injured players throughout the year. Each time one is presented with a list from the top scorer downwards. So I have been salting my team with good players.
One have to each week pick a team here
Pick Team

Transfers

The idea with a transfer is to substitute an injured/out of form player with an in form /healthy /high score player. If you don't make one in a week. Usually not a good idea. You get 2 the next week. I was looking through my team and Lallana had scored little points as I had 5 euro credit I could substitute with De Bruyne[90 points] who isn't really my first choice but Arsenal is a but doubtful so Özil[115 points0 was not chosen. We will see whether Arsenal regains the results or start disintegrating.


Picking the Captain / Vice Captain

Your captain should be the player that scored the most points in the year. His score is each week doubled and if he cant play your vice captains score is doubled.

As you can see my captain is now Mayrez whilst it was Ross Barkley who was also in the overall dream team.

Again its chosen at the same link where you picked your team

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-team/


The Dream team - weekly and monthly

The Overall Dreamteam
The dream team is those players that in their position scored the most points taking into account the maximum allowed players per position. I have 6 players in the dream team(overall). Southampton might just have been a flash in the pan against Arsenal so I wouldn't pick to many of their players atm.

Team Form

Some players are fans of certain teams so would pick the maximum players from that team. MUFC/DC is /was a big Manchester United fan.
His team have 3 Man U players in it

Yet if we look at form . One should be pulling most players especially Goalkeeper and defenders from Man U as they in no uncertain terms is currently sucking big time.

Information is from this site where they show you the most relevant info recent form.

Premier League Table

Arsenal losing against Southampton was not really on the scorecards as they came from a 3 game winning streak and their last win was against Manchester City. But yet Southampton thumped them 4 - 0. So is this sign of cracks appearing. Their next opponents is Bournemouth whose recent form is very good including 3 very good wins and a draw against team 5. My prediction is that Bournemouth might just win Arsenal. Perhaps a good idea to bench your Arsenal defenders for a week. Who knows?

Wildcards


One can play certain wildcards including

Triple Captain - Captains score is tripled

Bench Boost - Your bench also scores (where I got my 88 score). But don't play with a injured bench 😛

All out attack-Play this when your certain your forwards might all score in next fixture. Formation is 2 3 5 with 5 denoting number of attackers.(perhaps I have it wrong way up)

Again wildcards is played here...
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/my-team/

Sneakily stealing team picks from other layers

You can access the teams of all the players. So you can actually go to player number 1 on the whole site and just each week adjust your team till its 100% yours. Or you can just check what moves he makes and follow his selections. In short not certain of your team you can study the teams of other players or just model yours on the dream team.

Devise Your own strategy

This is just a game and its fun to work in a game a strategy out and follow it to see if it works. So you may also devise your own strategy perhaps based on your won read of the game/ the weekly dream team/ or total randomness.

So this has been RTK from the MOC . Raven will be hosting a new competition soon so also be on the lookout for that. Our deputy is still organizing his p* collection

*plant.