Goalkeeper strategy and tips for Sky Sports Fantasy Football and Telegraph FF

Sky Sports FF, Telegraph fantasy football

What’s the best way of approaching the choice of goal keeper for your Sky Sports fantasy football and Telegraph team. What type of team should the goal keeper play for and how much money should I spend are questions that will be asked by Sky Sports fantasy football and Telegraph managers.    I’ll help solve these questions and give you some choices for this year.   This article will split the analysis in to 2 halves.  Firstly the single goal keeping format of the Sky Sports Fantasy Football and the Telegraph  format and then a further article for the 2 goal keeper format of the barclays fantasy premier league and facebook fantasy premier league game.  It will also give you some hints on who to choose this year.

Sky sports fantasy football and Telegraph fantasy football

In these formats were only talking about having 1 goal keeper with no substitutes.  Neither have points for saves and both see reductions in points for goals conceded. I can sum up my advice here fairly simply for those who want to move on

PICK JOE HART!

Heres the reasons:

1.  One goalkeeping choice in Sky Sports fantasy football and in  Telegraph FF  means you need to pick the best

With no save points and points deducted for goals conceded you need to pick the keeper of the best defence.  Otherwise you will suffer badly.  Having only 1 goalkeeping choice also means there is no where to hide for those games away to Arsenal or United for your cheaper goal keeping option.

2.  City have the best defence.

Ok they had 17 clean sheets compared to Man Utds 19 but in all other stats City are the winners.  No other team comes close to these 2 in defensive terms either in clean sheets or goals conceded.  I expect City to out perform United on clean sheets this year even with Vidic back at some stage.  There is no difference in Euro fatigue and City have better defensive midfielder protection (do Utd have any without Darren Fletcher?) plus a better goalkeeper.

3.  De Gea’s position isn’t safe.

I’m not just talking about SAFs annoying rotation habit when you’re at home to Wigan either. Lets not forget if Lindegaard hadn’t got injured he may have established himself as the number 1 goal keeping choice.  If you’re a fantasy premier league manager playing the Telegraph format also remember that Hart is less likely to be rotated for FA cup games than De Gea.  The Sky Sports fantasy football format doesn’t include the FA Cup

4.  The value difference is minimal

In the Sky Sports fantasy football format here’s how the top 4 most expensive keepers line up:

Hart – £6.0m

De Gea – £5.9m

Cech  £5.8m

Szczesny £5.7m

With those negligible differences Sky Sports fantasy football  managers should buy Joe Hart.  By the way at the moment he is owned by 38.5% of Sky Sports fantasy football managers  compared to De Gea who is owned by 6.15% of Sky Sports fantasy football managers.

Its a carbon copy  story in the Telegraph format:

Hart – £4.0m

De Gea – £3.9m

Cech  £3.8m

Szczesny £3.7m

Again at the moment Hart is owned by 34.2% of Telegraph FF managers compared to De Gea who is owned by 6.3%.

So then Joe Hart it is for Sky Sports fantasy football and Telegraph FF managers

Join me for part 2 when I talk about the Barclays and facebook formats.

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