Tag Archives: Keepers

2019 Round 29 Captain’s Conundrum

Round 29’s Captain rankings are here. Only 3 weeks are left for the end of the fantasy season. Will you go safe with a popular captain pick to maintain your rank or will you go differential to try and increase your rank? 1) Josef Martinez Martinez has scored in 14 consecutive games in a row in a run that started …

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2019 Round 21 Captain’s Conundrum

Round 21’s captain rankings are here. Is there an opponent that you haven’t been able to catch up to for a while? This single game week offers a great opportunity for fantasy players to mix things up and gain an advantage over their opponents. 1) Carlos Vela Vela returns home on the back of 2 goals against arch-rivals LA Galaxy …

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2019 Round 13 Captain’s Conundrum

Amro Tarek captain

Round 13 is here to cause confusion this week in terms of captain choice because there is no clear-cut captain choice. Double games for New York Red Bulls and Vancouver Whitecaps doesn’t really provide us with the best captain choice because both teams haven’t been anything special offensively or defensively. 1) Carlos Vela A must have pick every time he …

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Gameweek 4: Injury and suspension report

Gameweek 4: Injury and Suspension Report Injuries can have a big impact on a fantasy lineup. Not only can they impact your score by providing under the radar options, but replacements often come in at a lower price point and can make it easier to field a full roster. Each week I’ll review key injuries and help you find replacements …

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The top 10 goalkeepers for the 2018 season

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I’m still working on getting the stats together for our breakdown of best players at each position. Until that time comes, checkout my latest article over at mlssoccer.com. It’s a quick read about who I think the top 10 goalkeepers are going into the 2018 season. If you follow me on Twitter, you can even see my first heckler reply …

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Draft Analysis – Selecting Goalkeepers

Goalkeepers are one of the simplest positions to evaluate in both MLS Fantasy and Draft format. They offer little variance and the point differentials among starters is not that great game to game. Without the odd PK save, their is little to go on besides team form. Premium Goalkeepers It’s really hard to list anyone as a premium goalkeeper. You …

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Stats Summary – Finding Value at Keeper 2017

This is part four of the four-part series about finding the value for each position. This one focuses on finding value at keeper. Here’s links to the forward, midfielder, and defender articles. For those of you too lazy to read the last posts…. the important column in this table is the rightmost one labeled “Residuals”. The higher that number, the …

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Game Week 31 Punts

Im back from vacation and ready to finish the year strong!!! -GK-I dont see any possible CS this week, so I wont advise on a GK -DEF-Scott-SEA-6.7 Mil @ 0.8% Ownership Scott has had 11/18 CBIS in the last 2 games. They do play LA, but are at home, and could rack up the CBI’s/Def bonus against LA. -MID-Valeri-PDX-10.6 Mil …

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2015 Early Keepers Picks

The MLS Fantasy Manager game has finally opened and now it’s time to get down to the business of picking players. I’ll kick things off with my 2015 early keeper picks and then work my way through the other positions. I’ve already made a few recommendations in my Preseason Picks article at MLSsoccer.com, so this article will cover others and go into a …

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Most Important Stats of 2013

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

Last month I posted some stats from the 2013 MLS season. Since then, I’ve done a little more work and I’m ready to talk what we can learn from this data. Specifically, I took a look to see which stats were most related to a player’s final total score. The idea was that by identifying the stats that contribute the most …

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