Fantasy Stats

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 13 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

There are eight teams with a bye this week. It’s here. The dreaded mass-bye week where we’ll be chopping off our limbs with a minus 4 hit to stop the greyscale. I’ve already had a couple people asking if it makes sense to take a hit this week. So, I’m just going to look at all kinds of situations and …

The following predictions are based on the ELO ranking system. This system was first used in Chess to calculate the skill level of players and predict the most likely winner. Since soccer can end in a draw, I’m using a modified version of this formula that tries to predict the chance that a team will come away from a match …

We’re deep enough into the season to where the results of the first couple weeks are getting close to any relevancy in helping us pick any players in a hot run of form. The following table shows us player form from week 5 onward. Giovinco still comes in first despite his double gameweek dud. Drogba and Dos Santos (GDS) come …

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 12 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

I’ve had several discussions with fantasy MLS managers that touch on the idea of consistency. There’s a lot of different ways that a player can be consistent – consistent starter, consistently getting 90 minutes, consistency in role/position, consistency in score, etc. This table contains every player who has played 45+ minutes at least 5 times this season. It then breaks …

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 11 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …

This week we’ll examine how many average points per game each team concedes by position. There’s a lot of valuable information that we can glean by looking at points conceded – which teams to avoid playing against and which teams we want to target playing against for each position. You should be able to sort the table below to make …

Did you ever wonder what you could do with a team if you used a Wild Card every week?  In Best XI at $120m, we will explore the options available to brand new players as well as those using a Wild Card as we predict the rounds Dream Team. Along with the best players by round matchup, players with the …

Here are the Form Difficulty Charts for Round 10 of the 2016 MLS Fantasy season and form breakdown for Home and Away games from 2015 plus the first games of 2016. If you’re not familiar with these charts, I’ll explain below. One early warning, since these charts are based on team form, the accuracy may be off some until more games have been …