Here’s our Sun Dream Team tips gameweeks 34-36 article. We take a detailed look at the fixtures of the top 7 teams and give some player suggestions. We also look at the FFGeeks team’s progress and produce a team if I could start again. There’s also a section to help you pick the players most likely to get the best player ratings
SUN DREAM TEAM TIPS – LOOKING AHEAD TO GAMEWEEKS 34-36
Remember this is the last week for transfers for the April month. Don’t get locked out of your target.
THE FFGEEK TEAMS
Team 1
GW33 score: 52 Points: 1, 783 pts Overall Rank: 8,502 (pre GW34) Team value: £67.7m (-£0.3m)
My rank improved by around 1k from last week.
Although Sterling and Simpson are secondary problems the primary problem is Ibrahimovic and his season ending injury. He will be shifted out for someone in the Manchester derby match. Either one of Rashford, Martial or Rooney and I just accept rotation albeit with additional games or possibly Gabriel Jesus. The extra cash will let me upgrade Simpson to a top 7 team
Team 2
Gameweek 33 score 41 Points: 1,620 pts Overall Rank: 65,923 (pre GW34) Team value: £59.8m (-£0.3m)
A slight improvement of rank by 2k from last week.
Loads of changes with 3 transfers this week. Stones will go for Azpilicueta tonight due to injury and rotation concerns. De Bruyne will go for Tadic tonight due to an extra game. Grant who’s lost his place will go for De Gea on Thursday with the Swansea game on the weekend in mind.
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: Koscielny £2.8m PPG 2.8
Mid: Ozil £5.8m PPG 4.7
Fwd: Sanchez £8.0m PPG 6.7
Spurs
GK: Lloris £4.5m PPG 3.2
Def: Alderweireld £5.2m PPG 3.8
Mid: Eriksen £8.4m PPG 5.2 Alli £7.7m PPG 4.5 Son £7.8 PPG 4.4
Fwd: Kane £12.1m PPG 7.0
Manchester Utd
GK: De Gea £3.5m PPG 2.2
Def: Bailly £5.6m PPG 4.0
Midfield: Pogba £5.4m PPG 4.4 Mkhitaryan £6.2m PPG 3.9
Forward: Rashford £3.6m PPG 2.3 Martial £3.4m PPG 3.0 Rooney £3.4m PPG 2.5 (All rotation risks unfortunately)
Chelsea
GK: Courtois £3.3m PPG 2.8
Def: Alonso £5.5m PPG 4.7 or Azpilicueta £3.7m PPG 3.7
Mid: Hazard £9.1m PPG 6.1
Fwd: Costa £4.8m PPG 4.9
Liverpool
GK: Mignolet £2.1m PPG 1.7
Def: Clyne £2.6m PPG 2.0
Mid: Coutinho £7.1m PPG 5.2,
Fwd: Firmino £6.8m PPG 4.6 Origi £3.6m PPG 2.3
Everton
GK:
Def: Holgate £2.3m PPG 2.8
Mid: Barkley £4.6m PPG 2.8,
Fwd: Lukaku £10.6m PPG 6.8
Man City
Mid: Sane £4.3m PPG 2.9,
Fwd: Aguero £9.5m PPG 6.8 (Watch out for Gabriel Jesus)
Alot of Pep rotation going on which makes selection difficult
TOP 10 PLAYERS BY POINTS PER GAME
This chart excludes GKs. If you remove the players with just a few games, injured or have left the club your top PPG players in that 10 are:
Lukaku
Kane
Sanchez
Aguero
Hazard
TOP 10 PLAYERS BY POINTS
WHOSCORED TOP 20 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.
MY TEAM IF I COULD START AGAIN
I’ve kept it the 7 teams above
GK: Lloris £4.5m
DEF: Bailly £5.6m Azpilicueta £3.7m Koscielny £2.8m Holgate £2.3m
MID: Ozil £5.8m Sane £4.3m Pogba £5.4m
FWD: Sanchez £8.0m Kane £12.1m Rashford £3.6m
Total Cost: £58.1m
Although my team 1 value is £68.0m I’ve tried to keep this team lower so it gives a range of prices. Some players now are extremely expensive and if you’re buying them now it could be to the detriment of the rest of your team. The Ibra injury gave a chance to put in a cheap Rashford. He will be rotated but he will also see a decent number of games due to the extra games Man Utd play. In reality you’ll want to see the team sheet for Thursday to focus on getting someone, who in particular, will play in the Swansea game on the weekend.
Arsenal have 5 fixtures so they are represented well. Kos is great value. Ozil maybe criticised but he produces points here.
Man Utd have 5 fixtures but rotation is an issue.
Man City have 4 fixtures over this period but are subject to unpredictable rotation. Strangely Sane seems the safest attacking player
Good luck for the rest of this gameweek
