MLS Week 1 Strategy

NYCFC_Dan

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Here is the breakdown of games for week 1.
Discuss probable starts/sits and so on.

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Caveat emptor. As a public service I should first disclose that fellow fantasy players should pay more attention to what I'm not doing as opposed to what I am doing. Now that that's out of the way.......

With San Jose hosting Colorado and Dallas home to Philadelphia, I'm going to concentrate on defense this week.

Being this is week #1, I believe teams are still going to need time for their offenses to gel. With Colorado having an awful O to begin with and Philadelphia's rather mediocre itself, I'm rolling the dice and thinking Bingham, Goodson, Wynne, Hedges and Loyd (some of the top players from '15 Fantasywise) will bring the points with their clean sheets.
 
I do remember that least year there were a few articles on Fantasy MLS during the first month of the season showing how Keepers and Defenders were outscoring offensive players.
 
In MLS home teams usually do better than away teams. It is very rare (almost never?) to have a team do as well away as at home. Individual players tend to get more points when their team wins than when they lose.

When there are two equal players at an equal price I believe you are more likely to score more points with the player at home than away. I think I have my starting 11 and 8 are at home -- I would have more but NYCFC is away. I almost always pick a player who is playing at home as my captain.

1 week until the season starts. Can't wait.
 
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Let the fun and games begin!

MLS Injury Report has two of my starting MF's (Feilhaber, SKC, abdominal strain & Davis, SKC, groin strain) listed as "Questionable". Since SKC is playing on the turf out in Seattle, I'm guessing they're going to err on the side of caution and not risk strain injuries this early in the season on the rug.

Out: Feilhaber -------> In: McCarty (NJ)

Out: Davis ------------> In: Diaz (FC Dallas)
 
I lost feilhaber, Deric & drogba from my starting lineup. And I even replaced sleeper pick Cam Porter, also hurt. 4 out of 16 feels like a bad omen to an MLS fantasy season. At least these are all free transfers :)
 
The system tracks your transfers for the season but it seems it does not start until the first game. I'd love to know how many transfers I've made this week. I think i can resist altering it further.
 
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