Strategy Clinic

By: The Fantasy Physician Week 10 Big Question – How do I pick players from teams with two or more good choices? Most attentive managers had Niko Tsakiris in their Kickbase squads last week; the breakout San Jose midfielder, third on the overall Kickbase total points list, playing on a record-setting team (in a DGW), still priced at less than …

By: The Fantasy Physician Week 9 Big Question – How do I manage player selection in the first Double Game Week (DGW) of the 2026 Season There are few dates on the calendar that fire the imaginations of veteran fantasy football managers as much as these: opening weekend, Decision Day in MLS, and the first big double game week (DGW).  …

By: The Fantasy Physician Week 7 Big Question – How do I assess matchups to pick players? Contextualize!  Yes, on Kickbase or any fantasy platform you can look at player averages and just pick the players with the best averages if you can afford them.  But that’s not that fun and misses a lot.  Soccer players do what they do …

By: The Fantasy Physician Week 6 Big Question – Should I favor players playing at home? We layer the muscles over the bones.  In our Week 4 and Week 5 articles, we highlighted the general value in the Kickbase scoring system of taking players from winning teams, seasoned with cautions about the impact of the CONCACAF Champions Cup schedule on …

By: The Fantasy Physician Weeks 5 Big Question – How do I factor player exhaustion/rotation from CCC in my Week 5 player choices Last week we examined lists of top Kickbase players from 2025 and the nascent 2026 season.  I handed out some warnings that quite a few of those players – often found on the best teams – had …

By: The Fantasy Physician Week 3 Big Question – How Do I Know Which Players Will Actually Play? If you put a player on your squad in the new Kickbase MLS Fantasy game and he does not play, you get zero points.  Ignoring that bigger disasters in the game (negative scores are not infrequent in Kickbase) or in life can …

By: The Fantasy Physician Week 2 Big Questions – How Do I Pick Goalkeepers in Kickbase MLS Fantasy? Information Overload. Are you there with me?  It’s enough to wrap one’s head around a nascent MLS season as the whole footballing world careens towards the World Cup, but MLS fantasy sickos are also figuring out at least one (if not four) …

By: The Fantasy Physician Round 1 Big Questions – How Do I Navigate the MLS Fantasy Landscape After the Earthquake that Struck in 2026? Fantasy Strategy Clinic is back in 2026!  Now do you hear that Aladdin music playing in the background?  Well, on February 9 – twelve short days before the MLS’s season kickoff – we learned that everything …

By: The Fantasy Physician Round 31 Big Questions Where are the Goals? What are MLS Teams’ Goals? What are your Goals? The last leg of this marathon season is like no other you have seen.  What mentality – to use a word pro soccer players love – will you bring to FMLS as we make the final push?  Well, when …

By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back, are you ready for yet another mini DGW? Hopefully, you haven’t burned out through this long and crazier-than-usual season and are ready for the last push through the final two gameweeks. By the time I wrote this, Miami and Chicago have already played the first game of the week (on a Tuesday!), so you …