Here’s our Sun Dream Team tips gameweeks 33-35 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 new section to help you pick the players most likely to get the best player ratings
Sun Dream Team tips – Looking ahead to Gameweeks 33-35
THE FFGEEK TEAMS
Team 1
GW32 score: 34 Points: 1, 731 pts Overall Rank: 9,706 (pre GW33) Team value: £68.0m
My rank worsened by less than 1k from last week.
Simpson and Sterling are the obvious problems. Still trying to get my head around a team without Lukaku or Kane but I’m going with it for the moment
Team 2
Gameweek score 41 Points: 1,579 pts Overall Rank: 67,799 (pre GW33) Team value: £60.1m
A slight improvement of rank by 5k from last week.
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 £2.9m PPG 2.9
Mid: Ozil £5.6m PPG 4.8
Fwd: Sanchez £8.2m PPG 6.7
Spurs
GK: Lloris £4.6m PPG 3.4
Def: Alderweireld £5.5m PPG 4.0
Mid: Eriksen £8.1m PPG 5.0 Alli £7.7m PPG 4.4 Son £7.2 PPG 4.6
Fwd: Kane £12.2m PPG 6.9
Manchester Utd
GK: De Gea £3.3m PPG 2.1
Def: Bailly £5.5m PPG 4.0
Midfield: Pogba £5.5m PPG 4.5 Mkhitaryan £6.0m PPG 3.9
Forward: Ibrahimovic £9.2m PPG 6.6
Chelsea
Def: Alonso £5.8m PPG 5.0 or Azpilicueta £3.8m PPG 3.8
Mid: Hazard £8.8m PPG 6.0
Fwd: Costa £5.3m PPG 5.0
Courtois and Alonso are injury doubts as I write this and I have therefore excluded them
Liverpool
GK: Mignolet £2.1m PPG 1.8
Def: Clyne £2.4m PPG 2.1
Mid: Coutinho £6.5m PPG 5.1,
Fwd: Firmino £6.5m PPG 4.6
Everton
GK: Robles £4.0m PPG 3.5
Def: Holgate £2.0m PPG 2.4
Mid: Barkley £4.6m PPG 2.9,
Fwd: Lukaku £11.0m PPG 7.0
Man City
Mid: Silva £5.3m PPG 3.3, Sane £4.4m PPG 3.0,
Fwd: Aguero £9.3m PPG 6.7
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 or have left the club your top PPG players in that 10 are:
Lukaku
Kane
Sanchez
Aguero
Ibrahimovic
Hazard
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.
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 £4.6m
DEF: Bailly £5.5m Alderweireld £5.5m Koscielny £2.9m Holgate £2.0m
MID: Ozil £5.6m Sane £4.4m Pogba £5.5m
FWD: Sanchez £8.2m Ibrahimovic £9.6m Aguero £9.3m
Total Cost: £63.1m
Although my team 1 value is £68.0m I’ve tried to keep this team somewhere between that value and my team 2 value of £60.1m. You’ll notice the lack of Spurs players in this. The fixtures apart from West Ham are quite tricky and they are expensive. I kind of think you’ve missed the boat to some extent if you don’t have them and there’s better value elsewhere. Same with Lukaku of Everton.
I’ve focused the money spent on strikers. Arsenal have 5 fixtures so they are represented well. Kos is great value. Ozil maybe criticised but he produces points here. Arsenal are now locked out of this gameweek though
Man Utd have 5 fixtures but rotation is an issue. I’ve gone for the 3 most secure players I can. All of which are good value.
Man City have 4 fixtures over this period but are subject to unpredictable rotation so again I’ve tried to go for the safest players.
Everton, Liverpool and Chelsea all have good value but only 3 fixtures over the period. Costa for instance is now only £5.3m which is great value. I mean Deeney is £4.9m.
Good luck for the rest of this gameweek