Here’s our Sun Dream Team tips gameweeks 29-31 article. We take a detailed look at the fixtures of the top 7 teams and give some player suggestions. There’s also a calendar so you know when to make the transfer for each of those teams. Lastly we look at the FFGeeks team’s progress and produce a team if I could start again. There’s also a new section to help you pick the players most likely to get the best player ratings
SUN DREAM TEAM TIPS – LOOKING AHEAD TO GAMEWEEKS 29-31
THE FFGEEK TEAMS
Team 1
GW28 score: 51 Points: 1,489 Overall Rank: 39,036 (pre GW29) Team value: £67.5m
My rank worsened by less than 1k from last week. Ibra’s suspension needs to be dealt with maybe by Costa or Lukaku although I’m keeping him for the Rostov game. I also need to get rid of Dawson.
Team 2
Gameweek score 53 Points: 1,400 Overall Rank: 49,336 (pre GW29) Team value: £64.4m
A slight improvement of rank by 2k from last week. If Kane is injured that may give me the funds to sort out the defence and upgrade Clyne and Robertson
FIXTURES AND PLAYER SUGGESTIONS
Here’s a reminder of the rules from the website regarding transfers.
Managers will be able make up to a maximum of three transfers to their team during each calendar month.
Transfers can be made providing that the Football club that both players involved in the transfer belong to, have not played in the current Game Week (Monday to Sunday).
A Game Week starts at 00:00:01 on a Monday and ends at 23:59:59 on the following Sunday.
If any player’s Club have played n that Game Week then they are ‘locked’ and cannot be moved in or out until the final match of the Game Week has ended.
The price of a player is as updated at the beginning of that Game Week by the Variable Player Pricing policy.
So here’s the teams with their upcoming schedules plus some player suggestions. The schedule is pretty obvious. However just to explain The column see lineups? basically tells you whether you will be able to see the lineups before making a transfer. You won’t be able if the player is locked as the team has played previously in the gameweek. Also if the game is sufficiently later in the day that the gameday will have started before the lineups have been announced.
Generally your players will come from the top 7 teams which is why I’ve just given you these fixtures and added on player suggestions. Prices as of Tuesday
Arsenal
Def: Mustafi £4.4m PPG 3.5 Koscielny £3.7m PPG 3.1
Mid: Ozil £4.9m PPG 4.5 (injury doubt)
Fwd: Sanchez £9.5m PPG 7.1
Spurs
Def: Alderweireld £5.4m PPG 4.0
Mid: Eriksen £7.4m PPG 4.8 Alli £6.0m PPG 4.0
Fwd: Kane £11.0m PPG 6.8 (injury doubt)
Manchester Utd
Def: Jones £4.1m PPG 3.3
Midfield: Pogba £6.2m PPG 4.7 Mkhitaryan £6.8m PPG 3.9
Forward: Ibrahimovic £9.3m PPG 6.7 ( domestic suspension Mboro and WBA)
Chelsea
Def: Alonso £6.6m PPG 5.3 or Azpilicueta £4.8m PPG 4.1
Mid: Hazard £8.1m PPG 5.7
Fwd: Costa £7.5m PPG 5.9
Liverpool
Def: Clyne £2.3m PPG 1.9
Mid: Mane £6.8m PPG 5.1, Coutinho £5.0m PPG 4.3, Lallana £3.2m PPG 2.9
Fwd: Firmino £5.3m PPG 4.3
Everton
Def: Baines £5.4m PPG 4.0, Coleman £6.0m PPG 4.1
Mid: Barkley £4.4m PPG 2.8,
Fwd: Lukaku £10.1m PPG 6.8
Man City
GK: Caballero £4.5m PPG 3.5
Def: Stones £4.4m PPG 2.6 Otamendi £5.4m PPG 4.0
Mid: De Bruyne £4.7m PPG 3.6, Sterling £5.8m PPG 4.1, Silva £5.3m PPG 3.4, Sane £4.5m PPG 2.9, YYT £5.1m 3.9
Fwd: Aguero £8.5m PPG 6.5
TOP 10 PLAYERS BY POINTS PER GAME
This chart excludes GKs. If you remove the players with just a few games or have left the club your top PPG players in that 10 are:
Sanchez
Ibrahimovic
Kane
Lukaku
Aguero
All players from the clubs I’ve emphasised
TOP 10 PLAYERS BY POINTS
You’ll see that all the players come from the 7 teams I have covered above. The chart excludes GKs
WHOSCORED TOP 10 PLAYER RATINGS
You may or may not know that the football analysis site whoscored provides the player ratings and Man Of the Match awards for Sun Dream Team which makes up some percentage of the points. Here’s there top 20 players by their ranking for just premier league games. Use this as a reference as part of your transfer decision.
Nothing much changed from last week. Andy Carroll sneaking in at 20 is interesting. As I said last week, I’ve tended to go for the chance creating set piece midfielders like Coutinho, Eriksen and De Bruyne as they generally have quite high game involvement. They are all in the top 20 but the attacking star midfielders like Hazard and Sanchez definitely lead the way. The love for Pogba is very evident here. Probably the main surpirse midfielders are Herrera and Zaha? In defence no clear pattern position but at least you get an idea of who they like. Otamendi at City , Rose at Spurs, Koscielny at Arsenal and Alonso at Chelsea.
Without wishing to bore you on the point. The only players in the league not from the top 7 clubs I’ve focused on are Zaha, Andy Carroll and Van Dijk
SUN DREAM TEAM CALENDAR GW29 – GW31
Here’s a schedule of the top 7 teams to show you when you need to make a transfer in the 2 gameweeks for those teams before they become locked. You’ll find it a handy little sheet.
MY TEAM IF I COULD START AGAIN
I’ve kept it the 7 teams above
GK: De Gea £3.9m
DEF: Clyne £2.3m Azpilicueta £5.1m Stones £4.4m Alderweireld £5.4m
MID: Dele Alli £6.0m Eriksen £7.4m Pogba £6.2m
FWD: Costa £7.5m Lukaku £10.1m Aguero £8.5m
Total Cost: £66.8m
