MLS Fantasy Strategy
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Simple Article, good for bench marking $$ for each position:
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/...g-your-first-mls-fantasy-manager-squad-season
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/...g-your-first-mls-fantasy-manager-squad-season
It's going to take me a little while to get through all this, but here's the first month+ of the season by ROUND, not game WEEK. I'll add the international weeks into the bottom same as fantasy boss when I'm done. Hope this gives you all a better idea of what's ahead for roster planning purposes.
This is more of a warning or tip to avoid some minor confusion or heartache than a piece of strategy.
Keepers and Defenders earn a Clean Sheet Bonus when their team does not give up a goal, and they play at least 60 minutes in that game. Unless they change the program, the bonus appears in the score for each player, and on your team score if you have those players active, as soon as the game reaches the 60-minute mark, as long as they haven't been scored on and were not subbed. But, the points are not fully earned until the game ends. So, since many clean sheets are lost in the last 20 minutes, it is common to check your team score late in games, and then see it go down when games are over, because you had keepers and defenders who were credited with those points mid-game, and then did not earn them by closing it out. Also, it does not matter if the clean sheet is lost after a player leaves. If he plays 70 minutes, leaves with no goals against, and then the team gives up a goal he gets no bonus.
Again, there's nothing you can do about this but it took me a couple of games to figure out what was going on last year when this happened.
Keepers and Defenders earn a Clean Sheet Bonus when their team does not give up a goal, and they play at least 60 minutes in that game. Unless they change the program, the bonus appears in the score for each player, and on your team score if you have those players active, as soon as the game reaches the 60-minute mark, as long as they haven't been scored on and were not subbed. But, the points are not fully earned until the game ends. So, since many clean sheets are lost in the last 20 minutes, it is common to check your team score late in games, and then see it go down when games are over, because you had keepers and defenders who were credited with those points mid-game, and then did not earn them by closing it out. Also, it does not matter if the clean sheet is lost after a player leaves. If he plays 70 minutes, leaves with no goals against, and then the team gives up a goal he gets no bonus.
Again, there's nothing you can do about this but it took me a couple of games to figure out what was going on last year when this happened.
Been busy with work, but I did find time to get to week 15. I'll hopefully have this done next week when things calm down a bit. Haven't even had time to call my tickets reps to bitch them out!
- The Official MLS Injury Report is notoriously unreliable, but it does provide some information.
- The Fantasy System will also put warning icons next to any player whose ability to play is uncertain, although sometimes it, too, does not update perfectly.
- The Injury Report usually updates midweek, so even if a player was obviously hurt on Saturday it might not show up until Wednesday or so. Conversely, if a player sits out one week and you're wondering if he will be better the next the injury report won't say anything new, if at all, again until midweek.
- If a player gets a middling knock one week and you want to know if he will play the next weekend, you are likely not to get any guidance until very late in the week. Maybe someone will report on Friday whether he practiced Thursday. These reports often come from non-mainstream sources, such as a team-centric fan blog, or twitter.
- Sometimes the first news that a seemingly healthy player has an issue will also only show up on Friday, if at all.
- If an uncertain player is not on your roster, you're usually better off just ignoring him as a possibility that week. The bigger difficulty lies in a player on your roster and you want to know whether you must use one of two free transfers on him that week, or are you free to use the transfer on someone else.
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Time to flip my entire lineup. Start Khiry and TMac and Taylor and have them do nothing but Villa put up double digits.
Eh... Okay... I need to sign two new defenders to replace Brillant and Matarrita. IMO I'm seeing Mataritta scoring a goal so I might keep him and sign Allen if he gets healthy soon. But if he doesn't get healthy... Then I don't know
Now that a week is in the books some ongoing things to consider:
Look for players on your roster who did not play, or who only came on as a sub, and think about pruning them. If you keep 2-3 very low-point roster players to add flexibility in the rest of the team they probably never play in real life, and that's probably good, but everyone else needs to play regularly. One week is not a trend, of course, and coaches might make changes going forward, but keep an eye on this for sure.
Someone who plays 30 minutes is arguably worse than some who does not play.
Another thing to start paying attention to is your team value. This is listed on your Dashboard. Week-to-week it can bounce a bit but it is important that it increase overall as the season goes on because you will need the flexibility for roster moves, especially when using your wildcards and in free transfer weeks.
Look for players on your roster who did not play, or who only came on as a sub, and think about pruning them. If you keep 2-3 very low-point roster players to add flexibility in the rest of the team they probably never play in real life, and that's probably good, but everyone else needs to play regularly. One week is not a trend, of course, and coaches might make changes going forward, but keep an eye on this for sure.
Someone who plays 30 minutes is arguably worse than some who does not play.
Another thing to start paying attention to is your team value. This is listed on your Dashboard. Week-to-week it can bounce a bit but it is important that it increase overall as the season goes on because you will need the flexibility for roster moves, especially when using your wildcards and in free transfer weeks.
3 points in week 1. I'm high on him because of what he can do offensively, but the defensive of the entire team and goal against will hurt.
Going into Round 3 I'm more than likely to transfer Loyd off my team. This was the 2nd week he didn't even get off the bench.
This in all likelihood will be my only move. By making 1 transfer this week I'll get a 3rd freebie for Round 4. That's when the Double Game Weeks begin.
This in all likelihood will be my only move. By making 1 transfer this week I'll get a 3rd freebie for Round 4. That's when the Double Game Weeks begin.
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