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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2015 MLS Schedule Chart
So if you’ve not been keeping up with most of the MLS news, the 2015 schedule came out this afternoon and we’re one step closer to the start of the 2015 MLS Fantasy season. While I do expect that there will still be some schedule changes, I went ahead and put together my complete 2015 MLS schedule chart. As with previous charts, Double …
Read More »New Price Change Rule
If you have not taken the time to read through the new MLS Fantasy Manager rules for 2015, or watched the new Starting Lineup video, you’ve not yet read about one of the BIG changes to the game this year: Performance Based Price Changes! There are already threads popping up on /r/FantasyMLS about who likes it and who doesn’t. Personally, …
Read More »Join the MLS Fantasy Boss League
It’s BACK! OK, now that you have finished doing your happy dance, why not take a moment to join the MLS Fantasy Boss league? If you’re still looking for more leagues, be sure to check out the full lust of recommended leagues on my leagues page or just use the drop-down menu above. I’m going to try harder to get …
Read More »2015 MLS Fantasy Primer
At the end of last season I decided that I wanted to do two big projects for 2015. The first was the MLSFI podcast and the second is the 2015 MLS Fantasy Primer. I was inspired by all of the Fantasy NFL draft guides that get published and I thought to myself, I wonder if Fantasy MLS players would like …
Read More »How to be a Community Contributor
Are you the best player in your MLS Fantasy league? Do you always know just who to captain? Are you a real MLS Fantasy Boss? Well then you’re exactly who I’m looking for. I’m rolling out something special this season at MLSFB, I want to give you, the members of our great community a chance to share your own fantasy …
Read More »Home & Away Rotations 2015 Weeks 1-18
With hope, we will all soon be painstakingly reviewing information from 2014 so we can make the perfect team for the start of the 2015 Fantasy MLS season. It’s been well documented that teams perform better at home, so I believe that a portion of this early planning should be devoted to identifying which teams pair the best with each other …
Read More »Expansion Team Success Part 2
In my previous article, Expansion Team Success Part 1, I briefly covered how expansion teams performed in their inaugural seasons. For this article, I’ve created a few charts that help to better illustrate the previous information. First is a chart that shows exactly what the previous article covered. You can see that the Inaugural season has rarely been very successful …
Read More »Expansion Team Success Part 1
Just like seven previous seasons, the 2015 MLS season is opening with new expansion teams and that brings a familiar question to the minds of many fans, how well can these new teams do in their inaugural year? This can be an especially important questions for MLS Fantasy managers who may be looking capitalize on some unknown quantities. So how …
Read More »Podcast Ep 2 Supplement
As mentioned in the writeup for the Episode 2 podcast post, here are some supplemental materials that might help you all visualize some of the things we were talking about and maybe a few that we didn’t. Related Links MLS Strength of Schedule Article QuincyAmarikwa.com Perfect Soccer Recruit MLSFB 2015 Full Schedule r/FantasyMLS on Reddit As mentioned in the writeup for the Episode …
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