If you are quite new to Barclay's Fantasy premier league, I would suggest you to check out my writings on this blog. After an exciting 2014/2015 Barclay's premier league our eyes and attention are now turned to the fast approaching 2015-2016 season. It's high time to build your epl fantasy team, so there are certain things to keep in mind before building a fantasy premier league team, we will be discussing some the do's and don'ts in building an epl fantasy team.
What do you mean by a Fantasy Premier League ?
Fantasy football is a virtual game in which you act in the role of a club manager, during the start of the game you will be given a certain amount of money for buying your epl fantasy team. One have to use this amount wisely, if you aren't doing it so you will end up bankrupt ( virtually ). Points in Fantasy premier league is earned or deducted according to the performance of your team members in reality. Basically points are given as follows.
- Playing in a match (or part of a match e.g. at least 60 minutes)
- Scoring a goal
- Making an assist (the pass or touch leading to the goal)
- Keeping a clean sheet (goalkeepers, midfielders and defenders only)
- Saving a penalty
- Goalkeeper saves 3 shots or more
Point will be deducted if the following things happen
- Conceding a goal (goalkeepers and defenders only)
- Receiving a yellow or red card
- Missing a penalty kick
- Scoring an own goal
Pick you EPL Fantasy Team
Following things are to be kept in your mind before selecting an EPL Fantasy team.
EPL Fantasy Team Formation
Formation in which your team plays is one of the major part while selecting defenders, midfielders and strikers. Always keep in mind of your team formation while selecting team members. Initially you will be given £100 m. You have to spend this amount wisely on defenders, midfielders and strikers. According to our available records attackers and midfielders have scored more points than defenders.
Defenders
While selecting defenders you have to include best defenders in your team, by best i mean the defenders who have conceded less amount of goals. You will be losing points if your defenders concede goals, so always try to select the best defenders. We have shortlisted some of the best defenders according to the no of clean sheets.
Chelsea : 17 clean sheets
West Bromwich Albion : 16 clean sheets
Southampton : 15 clean sheets
Manchester City : 14 clean sheets
Liverpool : 14 clean sheets
Arsenal : 13 clean sheets
Midfielders
One of the main thing to keep in your mind while selecting midfielders for your fantasy team is always try to buy players who has got fair amount of assists and goals. Keep an eye on set piece takers and play makers, We have short listed some of the best midfielders for building your epl fantasy team.
Cesc Fabregas
Santi Carzola
Eden Hazard
Chris Brunt
Angel Di Maria
Leighton Baines
These are some of the best midfielders available, I won't suggest you to have all of them in one team, so wisely select one or two midfielders from the above list.
Strikers
Strikers and Midfielders are the pillars of your fantasy premier league team, they will be fetching you the most no of points. One should be quite careful in selecting strikers and midfielders for fantasy premier league team. When selecting strikers and midfielders you should look for players who score goals. Suarez was the top scorer for the last season of barclays premier league. We here has shortlisted few strikers according to the no of goals scored by them in the last season.
Suarez
Augero
Diego Costa
Alexis Sanchez
Giroud
Hazard
Berahino
Goal Keepers
Always select goal keepers with good no of clean sheets and with less no of conceded goals also keep an eye on save rate. Goal keepers are awarded a point for every 3 saves in a match. Here is our shortlisted goal keepers for Barclays fantasy premier league.
Mannone
Speroni
Howard
Guzan
Krul
DeGea
Mignolet
Only 11 players are allowed to play, you also add some reserve players who can fetch you some valuable points, having good reserve bench makes the difference in most of the fantasy league.
EPL Fantasy and Premier League Fixtures
Keep an eye on premier league fixtures, select the players who get the chance to play most no of matches in the first few game weeks. Try selecting players who has got "easier" matches. We have already done a cross analysis of EPL Fantasy Premier League 2015/2016, please do check it out.
Wildcard
Always make use of wild card early in the season for getting a well balanced fantasy team, wild card enables you to do transfers without any deduction in points.
Captain
Captain will be scoring double points according to their performance during the game week. Choosing the best captain for your side will make a big difference. Captain will be the most expensive player on your team.
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