Here’s our review of the telegraph fantasy football format. We look at the FFGeek team and it’s progress plus potential transfers. We also do some analysis on the best value players and the best points per game players and then construct a team for going forward.
telegraph fantasy football – FFGeek team review and player analysis
Before I start if you play telegraph fantasy football you should also read our TFF pundit Stephen Troop’s recent update article
The FFGeek team
Overall rank: 6,880 Total points: 580 transfers left: 37
Here’s the team with season points:
So overall I’m in a pretty good position considering I’ve only used 3 transfers so far.
I think I’ve got a reasonably strong core of the 4 defenders plus De Bruyne, Salah, Kane and Lukaku.
Ritchie and Choupo Moting are the 2 fixture based players. Choupo Moting possibly has 4 weeks left and Ritchie likely will go this week with Newcastle away to Man Utd
I’m a little concerned about having no Chelsea attacking player as they go on a decent run of fixtures soon but we’ll discuss that next.
Option 1 transfers
This is the low key transfer where I downgrade Valencia to Jones to save money but still keep a Man Utd defensive presence and then use the cash to transfer out Ritchie for Sane. I could also do Sterling but I think Sane’s all round game is more suited to TFF
The team would then look like this
Option 2 transfers – The FFGeek Morata team
Getting Morata into the team requires a bit more extensive surgery of 4 transfers
Ritchie to Morata
Valencia to Jones
Forster to Pope
Choupo Moting to Doucoure
The team would look like this
At the moment I’m not sure which one I’m likely to do. Probably the former as 4 transfers seems a little drastic
Assessing the best value for money players
Here are the top 26 value for money players as I’ve assessed them. I’ve taken their points per game (including an arbitrary assessment for sub appearances) and related that to their price. That gives a value calculator and they are ordered from the best downwards. I’ve actually assessed over 200 players for value for money and points per game. They had to have 4 starts and a minimum TFF points total. Here’s the link to the google spreadsheet
| Value £m | Starts | Sub | Adj games | Tot Pts | Adj PPG | Value factor | ||
| Ward, Burnley | 2.3 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 52 | 4.73 | 2.06 | |
| Pope, Burnley | 2.3 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 34 | 4.69 | 2.04 | |
Davies, Tottenham Hotspur | 3.4 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 49 | 6.76 | 1.99 | |
Tarkowski, Burnley | 2.1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 44 | 4.00 | 1.90 | |
Christensen, Chelsea | 2.7 | 4 | 3 | 4.75 | 23 | 4.84 | 1.79 | |
Doucoure, Watford | 2.0 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 39 | 3.55 | 1.77 | |
Sterling, Manchester City | 4.6 | 6 | 3 | 6.75 | 55 | 8.15 | 1.77 | |
Lowe, Huddersfield Town | 2.5 | 9 | 2 | 9.5 | 41 | 4.32 | 1.73 | |
Lowton, Burnley | 2.5 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 47 | 4.27 | 1.71 | |
Jones, Manchester United | 3.2 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 60 | 5.45 | 1.70 | |
Trippier, Tottenham Hotspur | 3.8 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 46 | 6.34 | 1.67 | |
RicharlisonWatford | 3.0 | 10 | 1 | 10.25 | 51 | 4.98 | 1.66 | |
Gross, Brighton | 2.7 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 49 | 4.45 | 1.65 | |
Sane, Manchester City | 4.9 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 64 | 8.00 | 1.63 | |
Lossl, Huddersfield Town | 2.7 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 48 | 4.36 | 1.62 | |
| Vokes, Burnley | 3.4 | 4 | 3 | 4.75 | 26 | 5.47 | 1.61 | |
Bailly, Manchester United | 3.8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 48 | 6.00 | 1.58 | |
Pogba, Manchester United | 4.6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 7.25 | 1.58 | |
Jorgensen, Huddersfield Town | 2.4 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 41 | 3.73 | 1.55 | |
Yoshida, Southampton | 3.1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 43 | 4.78 | 1.54 | |
Mustafi, Arsenal | 3.9 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 30 | 6.00 | 1.54 | |
Gomez, Liverpool | 2.7 | 8 | 1 | 8.25 | 34 | 4.12 | 1.53 | |
Murray, GBrighton | 3.6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 5.33 | 1.48 | |
de Gea, Manchester United | 3.9 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 63 | 5.73 | 1.47 | |
Mendy, Manchester City | 4.1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 6.00 | 1.46 | |
Sanchez, Tottenham Hotspur | 3.7 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 39 | 5.38 | 1.45 |
Best points per game players
Again an arbitrary assessment for sub appearances and they are ordered from the best PPG downwards. Here’s the link to the google spreadsheet
| Value £m | Starts | Sub | Adj games | Tot Pts | Adj PPG | Value factor | ||
Aguero, Manchester City | 6.8 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 67 | 9.24 | 1.36 | |
Sterling, Manchester City | 4.6 | 6 | 3 | 6.75 | 55 | 8.15 | 1.77 | |
Sane, Manchester City | 4.9 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 64 | 8.00 | 1.63 | |
Pogba, Manchester United | 4.6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 7.25 | 1.58 | |
Davies, Tottenham Hotspur | 3.4 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 49 | 6.76 | 1.99 | |
Jesus, Manchester City | 5.9 | 8 | 2 | 8.5 | 57 | 6.71 | 1.14 | |
Kane, Tottenham Hotspur | 7.0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 67 | 6.70 | 0.96 | |
Morata, Chelsea | 6.5 | 9 | 1 | 9.25 | 61 | 6.59 | 1.01 | |
de Bruyne, Manchester City | 5.7 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 71 | 6.45 | 1.13 | |
Trippier, Tottenham Hotspur | 3.8 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 46 | 6.34 | 1.67 | |
Salah, Liverpool | 4.5 | 10 | 1 | 10.25 | 63 | 6.15 | 1.37 | |
Bailly, Manchester United | 3.8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 48 | 6.00 | 1.58 | |
Mustafi, Arsenal | 3.9 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 30 | 6.00 | 1.54 | |
Mendy, Manchester City | 4.1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 6.00 | 1.46 | |
de Gea, Manchester United | 3.9 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 63 | 5.73 | 1.47 | |
Lukaku, Manchester United | 6.6 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 63 | 5.73 | 0.87 | |
Valencia, Manchester United | 4.1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 62 | 5.64 | 1.37 | |
Azpilicueta, Chelsea | 4.5 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 62 | 5.64 | 1.25 | |
Ramsey, Arsenal | 4.2 | 9 | 1 | 9.25 | 52 | 5.62 | 1.34 | |
Walker, Manchester City | 4.2 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 56 | 5.60 | 1.33 | |
| Vokes, Burnley | 3.4 | 4 | 3 | 4.75 | 26 | 5.47 | 1.61 | |
Jones, Manchester United | 3.2 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 60 | 5.45 | 1.70 | |
Sanchez, Tottenham Hotspur | 3.7 | 7 | 1 | 7.25 | 39 | 5.38 | 1.45 | |
Murray, Brighton | 3.6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 5.33 | 1.48 |
The value for money team
So I made a team from the value for money list. It is simplistic and unfortunately over values cheap players so there’s a ton of money in the bank. I basically just went through the list and took the top players. However only 1 player per team per position and only gametime secure players (Man City excepted)
Unfortunately £10.5m in the bank so then I went through and replaced players with the highest PPG and ended up with this team
The value team with adjustment to spend the extra cash
I’ve taken the top PPG players and used them to replace the lower ranked value players in order to spend the remaining cash and optimise the team. I used the same rules about 1 player per team per position
Not a bad team. I would probably replace Kolasinac with Vertonghen but can’t fault it otherwise. In telegraph fantasy football it’s less about short term fixtures and more about a strong core team. This has it with really only Richarlison being a rotation fixtures based player
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