Here’s our Sun Dream Team tips gameweeks 28-30 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 28-30
THE FFGEEK TEAMS
Team 1
GW27 score: 52 Points: 1,438 Overall Rank: 12,432 (pre GW28) Team value: £67.2m
Improved my rank by approximately 2k from GW27. Maybe time to get Kane in for Ibra if he’s suspended. Dawson is someone I’d like replaced too.
Team 2
Gameweek score 32 Points: 1,347 Overall Rank: 51,185 (pre GW28) Team value: £63.4m
A worsening of rank by 2k from last week. Mkhitaryan could be back soon so I may hold on. If Ibra gets banned I can feel some upward movement as he’s often been the drag on the rank.
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.
The match centre is fairly confused over postponements and isn’t accurate. I’ve not been able to confirm lineup availability in some cases
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 Monday
Arsenal
Def: Mustafi £4.0m PPG 3.3
Fwd: Sanchez £9.5m PPG 7.1
Spurs
Def: Alderweireld £5.4m PPG 3.8
Mid: Eriksen £7.0m PPG 4.6 Alli £5.5m PPG 3.9
Fwd: Kane £10.4m PPG 7.0
Manchester Utd
Def: Jones £4.3m PPG 3.7
Midfield: Pogba £6.4m PPG 4.8
Forward: Ibrahimovic £9.6m PPG 6.7 (query over any action related to elbow incident)
Chelsea
Def: Alonso £7.1m PPG 5.5 or Azpilicueta £5.1m PPG 4.3
Mid: Hazard £7.8m PPG 5.6
Fwd: Costa £7.2m PPG 6.1
Liverpool
Def: Clyne £2.5m PPG 1.9
Mid: Mane £6.8m PPG 5.3, Coutinho £5.1m PPG 4.5, Lallana £3.4m PPG 3.0
Fwd: Firmino £5.3m PPG 4.3
Everton
Def: Baines £5.4m PPG 4.0, Coleman £5.9m PPG 4.0
Mid: Barkley £4.2m PPG 2.7,
Fwd: Lukaku £9.5m PPG 6.5
Man City
GK: Caballero £4.2m PPG 3.4
Def: Stones £4.1m PPG 2.4
Mid: De Bruyne £5.3m PPG 3.9, Sterling £5.5m PPG 4.1, Silva £5.0m PPG 3.2, Sane £4.3m PPG 3.0
Fwd: Aguero £7.9m PPG 6.6
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 apart from the injured Van Dijk 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 pat of your transfer decision.
There’s nothing interesting in this from a strikers point of view. From a midfielders it’s interesting. I’ve tended to go for the chance creating set piece midfilders 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 and Van Dijk
SUN DREAM TEAM CALENDAR GW28-GW30
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
Due to price rises I’ve had to introduce a cheap defender to keep it around £64m
GK: De Gea £3.9m
DEF: Cresswell £1.6m Azpilicueta £5.1m Stones £4.1m Alderweireld £5.4m
MID: De Bruyne £5.0m Eriksen £6.8m Pogba £6.4m
FWD: Kane £9.8m Lukaku £9.5m Aguero £7.9m
Total Cost: £65.5m
