Here’s our fantasy premier league preseason player rankings for defenders. This will help you choose defenders for your FPL team.
fantasy premier league preseason player rankings – defenders
Approach
Generally you’ll be looking to put 1 or 2 or even 3 premium defenders in your team and supplement them with 2 or 3 rotating cheap players. Therefore it’s worth reading this article in conjunction with my 2 team defensive rotation article and my 3 team rotation article
I’ve firstly ordered the teams buy what I think is their defensive strength from last season with adjustments for transfers completed. Then I’ve added their fixture ease ranking so you can see who has the best fixtures over 3 different periods. In the next column I’ve given a cheap option and an attacking option so you can compare price. That means you are then able to choose the type of defender you like in your team.
The next column is a sort of watchlist to see if a better value player can come forward over pre-season. Sometimes I will repeat the value player in that column if there’s still some work to be done on his gametime security. The players in the watchlist column will vary in terms of likelihood of getting into the team. They could vary from a good chance to virtually no hope. As I said it’s a watchlist for future premier league games. Lastly I’ve put the GK price in as a comparison.
The schedule
A couple of comments and player suggestions
To me, of the premium players, Lindelof, Trippier and Cedric all have good combinations of strength, value and fixtures. Therefore, they are firmly on my radar.
Rotation pairs have been a bit more difficult as you’ll see from the article so I may have to roll out some more
I’ve not included Milner of Liverpool. I find it difficult to believe that Liverpool won’t sign a specialist LB. I know there’s some talk about Robertson of Hull. If a left back is bought I think he will struggle to get into the side with the midfield 3 of Henderson, Lallana and Wijnaldum
West Ham appear to be on the verge of signing Joe Hart as I write this so I’ve just left it blank for the moment.
As I’ve written this the news of Huth of Leicester being out for the start of the season means that Maguire should start for Leicester
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