facebook premier league fantasy – making the most of the unusual rules

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All the fantasy football formats for the premier league are different and increasingly new rules are brought in to the different formats.  Facebook premier league fantasy certainly is a very different one.  Heres some of the unusual rules and the ways to take advantage

Price rises/falls

The main idiosyncrasy with facebook premier league fantasy is the volatile pricing and the vesting period for holding players.  This gives you an incredible incentive to transfer early in the week to avoid price falls for players in your team and buy players where prices are rising.

The vesting period is increasing from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. You will need to hold a player for 28 days to earn the full difference in value from the price at purchase to the market price at time of transfer.

Player values fluctuate based on ownership. If you have players whom other owners add to their roster, their value will increase and be reflected in your cap number. If other owners drop players you have, your cap number will decrease.

This goes completely against how I want to play the game.  I recently lost £2m in value for Tevez as people were selling him hand over fist.  However his next game was a home game to Sunderland which I knew City would walk.  City also have good fixtures coming up and Tevez was rested so there was a good chance of him starting  so why was everyone selling.  It made no sense to me. In the end I made him captain and unluckily in my mind he then got no points and I had to sell him early this week as the price kept plummeting.   What I should have done was sold him early for Ageuro or such like to avoid the price drop.  My team value is now less than  when it started.  Its easy to capture price drops for players in your team you just need to check your team regularly and remember what the price was to see if it has fallen.

There’s no way that I can see of who is rising outside your team.  A good proxy though is to go on to the Barclays site and look at the transfers in (gameweek) drop down which will show who is being purchased in that format.  that will give a good indication in the facebook format.

As I say transfers early in the week dont sit with me well due to the risk of injury but in this format if you don’t you could find yourself facing people with a value of £10m more come the latter part of the season.  Also transferring in solely on value increase rather than points prospects makes no sense to me.  You should strike a balance between the 2 to avoid being totally outnumbered value wise later in the season.  I will certainly be making a shift towards this

Shots on target

facebook premier league fantasy is a goal scorers format.  Goals get 4 for a striker 5 for a midfielder and 6 for a defender compared to 2 for an assist in every position.

In addition a point is awarded for every shot on target.

Heres some of the leaders on a per game basis (assuming a reasonable number of games played) for shots n target “SOT”

Forwards

Rodellaga

Ba

Mirallas

Defoe

Suarez

RVP

Heres a few who have played less games but have strong ratios

Anichebe

Dzeko

Rooney

Berba

Its worth remembering these in a captain sense as it provides a bit of a hedge even if they don’t score.  2 or 3 shots on target would get another 4-6 points in that instance

Midfielders

Bale

Fellaini

Cazorla

YYT

Pienaar

Nolan

Michu

Sidwell

Gera

Lampard

also note Oscar has a high ratio for 3 games

This choice can add a point per game

Defenders

Ivanovic

Luiz

Rafael

Zabaleta

Baines

On less games BAE, Richards and Richardson

Fouls won

Each foul won will win you 0.5 of a point.

Here are the players who have averaged over 2 fouls per game and an additional point:

Forwards

Suarez

Zamora

Snodgrass

Holt

Petric

Ruiz

On less games:

Ballotelli

Fortune

Midfield

Hazard

Gutierrez

Pienaar

Arteta

Dyer

Maloney

Park

Sterling

Sessegnon

Granero

Guthrie

and on less games

NZogbia

Taarabt

Defence (generally only 1 per game)

Figueroa

Baines

Santon

Luiz

Williamson

Who has  appeared on both SOT and FW?

Suarez

Pienaar

Luiz

Baines

The negative – Fouls committed

A half point is removed for every foul committed.  Here are these committing more than 2 per game

Forwards

C Cole

Crouch

Holt

Mirallas

Midfielders

Fellaini

Michu

El Ahamadi

Arteta

Jacob

B Johnson

Holman

Diame

Adam

Schneiderlin

Granero

Defenders (all slightly less than 2 per game apart from Figueroa)

Figueroa

Caldwell

Kompany

Reid

Clark

Vertonghen

Those on both FW and FC

Holt

Arteta

Granero

Figueroa

I hope that provides some food for thought.  Facebook premier league fantasy transfers should always be made on the basis of fixtures and form but taking in to account these other factors especially the value position should be part of the decision making process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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