Fantasy Football Tips
Know the Fantasy Football Players
Fantasy Football can be played without any knowledge of the real life players or even the game itself. As long as you have the ability to add up, you will be able to pick a team for fantasy football. However, his strategy is not advised if you actually want to bask in the glory of victory and reduce your mates and colleagues to tears each and every week. Unless you feeling very very lucky!
There is no substitute for knowing who a fantasy football player is and what he is cable of. Everything from their position on the pitch, how regularly they make the team, whether they take throw ins, corners or penalties, even how likely they are to get booked or worse sent off! Every element that has been mentioned here and more that haven't can influence fantasy football. You need to be able gain every advantage you can over the other players in your fantasy football league and nothing makes you better equipment than knowing the players inside out.
Watch the transfer market
Year after year the transfer windows where players can move clubs provide a great deal of excitement and more often than not a fair number of surprises. A transfer can have a drastic effect upon a player both in the real world and the fantasy football world! The most obvious is his value but almost as importantly is his "regularity" with the team. This is a great opportunity to pick up some bargain Fantasy Football points.
For Example;
A Player with great ability was bought by a big premiership club with money at its disposal. However, he struggled to find his form and therefore a regular place in a competitive team. Picking this player in these circumstances is unlucky to yield many fantasy football points.
Now, if this same player fell out of favor with the manager and was sold to another club where competition for a place in the team was not so tough. The situation is turned on its head. The 'out of form' players value would have dropped but his potential to score some respectable fantasy football points is fact that shouldn't be overlooked.
Select Diverse players
One of the best sources for big fantasy football points are 'diverse players'. These are players that extend their role beyond that of the traditional playing position. More and more in the modern game we are seeing players that cannot be pigeon holed to a certain position. A player which always breaks on the counter attack providing valuable assists to strikers might well be a 'defender' according to his shirt number but his temperament may tell you otherwise! This player wins you fantasy football points for clean sheets, assists and maybe even a few goals! This is certainly the case with more and more clubs using 'wingbacks'.
Some midfielders play just behind the front two strikers and during the season will tally up just as many goals as some strikers. The reason for wanting one of these players into your fantasy football team is obvious. Effectively, you will be gaining an extra striker, winning you invaluable fantasy football points that an average midfielder would only dream of!
Incorrectly classified players
For one reason or another it is un avoidable for some players to be in correctly classified. Sometimes the players themselves change position and leaves another excellent oppotunity to gain some extra fantasy football points.
Strikers classified as Midfielders
Strikers classified as Midfielders are a bonus! For the same reason as described in the diverse players heading, Effectively, you will be gaining an extra striker, winning you invaluable fantasy football points that an average midfielder would only dream of!
Midfielders classified as defenders
Midfielders classified as defenders are also an excellent oppotunity to gain extra fantasy football points, particularly attacking ones. Gaining points not only when their tema keeps a clean sheets but also for any attacking points they are likely to earn in midfield!
Defenders classified as Midfielders
Defenders classified as Midfielders should be avoided at all costs! Your fantasy football teams points will take a real hammering if you fail to spot this type of player is classified incorrectly. First and foremost, you'll be scoring no points for any defensive duties the players is carrying out which is a disaster. Second, unless he is a player who likes to get forward he is going to score very few attacking fantasy football points.
Midfielders classified as a striker
Midfielders classified as a striker are a costly mistake. Effectively using up one of your strikers positions with a player who is actually midfielder is obviously a bad thing. Strikers are far bigger fantasy football point winners than midfielders.
