Monthly Archives: June 2014

Predictions – World Cup Round of 16

    As you all know, I’m a fan of the ELO ranking system. So when the World Cup started, I setup an Excel spreadsheet to help me do the calculations just like I use for MLS. Now that the Group stage is over, I decided to see how I did. Of the the 48 games that were played in …

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MLS Attacking Effectiveness: Rounds 1-15

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

A while back I came across an absolutely fantastic site for those of you who like Soccer charts. It’s called MatchStory and it’s a site that focuses on interpreting soccer data and “using [that] data to tell a story.” In other words, they make a lot of sweet graphs about some of the best soccer leagues in the world. One …

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New Home & Away Rotation Table

    As we all know, there is a measurable home field advantage in MLS (really all sports but MLS has one of the best). Because of this, I created a table that displayed the number of rounds 2 teams would allow you to rotate home and away players. This is the second chart for the 2014 season and represents …

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MLSFB New Form Difficulty Charts – Round 16

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

Here is the  New Form chart for Round 16 and latest form breakdown for Home and Away games. I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback about the difficulty chart and I’ve made a change to how the game ease is calculated by removing the weight given to bye weeks.  The first chart displays how difficult the next 6 games will be …

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/r/FantasyMLS Fantasy World Cup Leagues #2

  The official FIFA World Cup league opened a few days ago, and the original announcement was made at /r/Fantasy MLS, I’m not posting that same info here in case anyone else is still looking for a fantasy World Cup league to join. There are a lot of similarities to the MLS Fantasy Manager game, but scoring is very different. …

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MLS Fantasy Boss Team – Round 15

  I’m not going to lie, I had a very busy week and I dropped the ball of this great value gaining opportunity, so I hope you did not. Expect to see a lot of similar teams this round and everything could come down to the captain pick. But don’t fret, there is always the World Cup to enjoy! Good …

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MLSFB Form Difficulty Charts – Round 15

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

Here is the  Form chart for Round 15 and latest form breakdown for Home and Away games. These charts pickup on the form of the teams from the end of the 2013 season. The first chart displays how difficult the next 6 games will be for a team. Difficulty is ranked from 1 to 5 and an advantage is given to …

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/r/FantasyMLS Fantasy World Cup Leagues #1

    The World Cup is just days away now, and several different fantasy options are available this year for those crazy enough to dive in. I have no plans to write any posts that focus on any World Cup fantasy options, but I will be starting two leagues for those who want to play. The Mirror league is the …

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MLS Fantasy Boss Team – Round 14

  I made my trades early this week and took some hits. In the end, I’m happy with everything but I a looking forward to all those free Wildcards coming up 🙂 MLS Fantasy Boss League (Maybe a Trophy) – Auto Join Keepers – Dropped Kronberg to save some cash from drops and grabbed Irwin who has one of the best CS records and for …

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11th Hour Transfer Tips – Round 14

   We’re just a few hours away from the kickoff of Round 12, so if you still need to adjust your team to deal with all of the late injures and suspension decisions, now is the time to do it. Here’s a collection of tips from around the web. MLS Fantasy Boss Posts: Round 14 Player Roundup Captain Poll Round 14 …

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