By: The Fantasy Meteorologist Welcome back, I’m excited to bring you something a bit different than what you’re used to here. Rather fittingly, I’ll be discussing the weather. I say fitting because last week felt the full force of Mother Nature. Three games l experienced delays for poor weather, and popular picks such as Ojeda, Zinckernagel, and Mukhtar were sidelined …
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2025 Game Week 24: What Makes a Good Captain?
By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back, hopefully you had a better Week 23 than I did. Family commitments meant I missed a few lineup drops and wasn’t able to make adjustments, and it showed in my score. Like many of you, I captained Evander, which was… less than ideal. Disappointing captain choices have been the case for many of us …
Read More »2025 Game Week 23: Dead Legs, Leagues Cup Edition
By: The Fantasy Physician Round 23 Big Questions – Assessing Matchups Affected by Recent Leagues Cup The double whammy for MLS teams is a busy schedule and roster rules that limit team depth. Fortunately, you are not subject to those limits as an FMLS manager. Your roster depth is as large as the number of players in the FMLS game, …
Read More »2025 Game Week 22: “Homerism” Good and Bad
By: The Fantasy Therapist Round 22 Big Questions – How should your relationship with the team you support in real life affect your FMLS game? Should it at all? I am an avid LA Galaxy fan: have season tickets for 14 years in a row, go to every home game, watch every away game on TV, own lots of gear, …
Read More »2025 Game Week 21: Why defensive mids matter (even if you’re not picking them)
By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back! How are you feeling after our first mini DGW of 2025? No time to rest, as we are right back at it with a full-sized DGW. 26 teams are playing twice, so with two bites of the apple on the table for just about everyone, we’re going to look once again at defense. Finding …
Read More »Fantasy Strategy Clinic Round 20: Mini-Double-Game Week
By: The Fantasy Physician Round 20 Big Questions – How best to handle non-massive (or mini-) Double Game Week We are always building on our existing foundations. In Round 12 and Round 13, the Fantasy Therapist led you through the core strategies for double game weeks (both well worth a reread). Round 20 presents us with a new twist on …
Read More »Fantasy Strategy Clinic Round 19: What to Do When You Can’t Check Lineups
By: The Fantasy Physician Round 19 Big Questions – How Do I Pick a Team When I Can’t Check Lineups For American readers of the Fantasy Strategy Clinic, a holiday weekend approaches, but MLS continues. What are your plans? Backwoods camping? Out-of-town wedding? A long flight somewhere? Logging-off for a digital holiday? Some weekends, if not this one, you just …
Read More »DiffeRANCHals: 2025 Round 18
Every week, we’ll go over our suggestions from last week, and determine if they were a good or bad pick based on position and points. To describe in detail the ranking system, here is the metric: bust = 3 or fewer points (or did not play), average = 4-5 points, good = 6-8 points, great = …
Read More »Fantasy Strategy Clinic Round 18: Defender Shortlists
By: The Fantasy Physician Picking Defenders based on evidence Hope that MLS break that gave us an FMLS proves restorative. Deep breath and let’s go! Back on the topic of picking defenders. Why? Because it’s not easy. In round 14’s article, we looked hard at this question focusing on how hard it is to find clean sheets and how that …
Read More »2025 Game Week 17: Go With Your Gut
By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back, I hope navigating the last few weird weeks hasn’t been too painful. DGWs, extra small GWs and international absences have made this midseason stretch a challenging one. Now that we’re officially more than halfway through the season and with another unconventional week coming up in Week 17 (Thursday and Friday games plus more international …
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