Week 27 Recap

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. I ended up missing lineups left and right and had a bunch of money wrapped up in players who didn’t start. But it forced me to bring in some cheaper players, mainly from COL who ended up scoring really well. 82 points for WR 324 and up to OR 301 overall.

This has definitely been a tricky part of the season to navigate, so we’ll have to continue to watch lineups on wednesday.

Week 27 True Dream Team

Here are the rules.

• only three players per team
• must be a valid formation
• must fit in the average budget for that week
• ties are broken with lowest value player making the team
• the bench is all 4.0 scrubs

So here’s the Week 27 TRUE Dream Team

Week 28 Team Defense Rankings

Projections provided by @thedummyrun on twitter.

Total Budget this Week: BTN Budget: $124.5

Goalkeepers

Top Teams

NYC, MIN, RSL, TOR

The Player Pool

Must Haves

None

Top Options

Vito Mannone

MIN

GK

$8.30

Nick Rimando	RSL	GK	$8.80
Sean Johnson	NYC	GK	$6.90

Price Rise Targets (Form/$ >~ 1.00)

Clint Irwin

COL

GK

$4.60

Value Players (PP90/$)

Clint Irwin	COL	GK	$4.60
David Bingham	LA	GK	$7.20

Bargain Bin

Clint Irwin

COL

GK

$4.60

Notes

On DGW, I just keep it simple with a single keeper. Hard to go wrong with the double home game keeper.

Defenders

Top Teams

NYC, MIN, RSL, TOR

The Player Pool

Must Haves

None

Top Options

Romain Metanire

MIN

DF

$8.80

Auro

TOR

DF

$8.40

Anton Tinnerholm

NYC

DF

$8.80

Justen Glad

RSL

DF

$9.50

Price Rise Targets (Form/$ >~ 1.00)

Daniel Steres

LA

DF

$5.20

Brent Kallman	MIN	DF	$5.10
Ronald Matarrita	NYC	DF	$5.70

Tommy Smith

COL

DF

$5.20

Value Players (PP90/$)

Brent Kallman	MIN	DF	$5.10
Daniel Steres	LA	DF	$5.20

Ronald Matarrita

NYC

DF

$5.70

Tommy Smith

COL

DF

$5.20

Notes

I’ve championed putting money in the back and with all the rotation this week, its worth spending up for a little stability.

Week 28 Team Offense Rankings

Projections provided by @thedummyrun on twitter.

Week 28 Top 50 Player Projections

Midfielders

The Player Pool

Top Teams

NYC, LAG, TOR, COL, MIN

Must Haves

None

Top Options

Alejandro Pozuelo

TOR

MF

$9.60

Cristian Pavon

LA

MF

$10.50

Alexander Ring

NYC

MF

$9.10

Jonathan Lewis

COL

MF

$7.90

Magnus Eriksson

SJ

MF

$11.30

Michael Bradley	TOR	MF	$9.60
Jack Price	COL	MF	$8.40

Price Rise Targets (Form/$ >~ 1.00)

None

Value Players (PP90/$)

Nick DeLeon

TOR

MF

$5.80

Nicolas Mezquida

COL

MF

$4.80

Nicolas Benezet

TOR

MF

$8.00

Notes

I haven’t really found any issue with having enough money with the options this week. Again with all the rotation, I think you can win the week just by playing it safe and picking guys with a high probability of going 180.

Forwards

The Player Pool

Top Teams

NYC, LAG, TOR, COL, MIN

Must Haves

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

LA

FW

$12.30

Top Options

Valentin Castellanos

NYC

FW

$7.30

Andre Shinyashiki	COL	FW	$6.30
Chris Wondolowski	SJ	FW	$7.90

Jozy Altidore

TOR

FW

$10.20

Carlos Darwin Quintero

MIN

FW

$8.10

Price Rise Targets (Form/$) >~ 1.00

Valentin Castellanos	NYC	FW	$7.30
Chris Wondolowski	SJ	FW	$7.90
Andre Shinyashiki	COL	FW	$6.30

Value Players (PP90/$)

Valentin Castellanos	NYC	FW	$7.30
Chris Wondolowski	SJ	FW	$7.90
Andre Shinyashiki	COL	FW	$6.30

Notes

Outside of Zlatan, not sure who’s going to play a lot this week. I’d like to put Zlatan in the autoroo and captain someone else, but I haven’t found anyone else yet who seems like a better option.

2019 Week 28 Behind the Numbers Team

Here’s my first draft of the Behind the Numbers Team based on the discussion above. I’m gonna be honest guys, there’s not much correlation between the stats this week and the choices I wanted to make.

If you’d like to follow me on twitter, I’m @MLSFB_BTN. I typically post my updated lineup before the games start to show if my thinking has changed since this column went up.’

Resources for nerding out about MLS Fantasy

• http://www.mlscheatsheet.com/ — Bonus point data, projections and more
• https://www.americansocceranalysis.com/asa-xgoals — Interactive xG and passing data
• https://www.whoscored.com/ — Analytics based player ratings