Strategy Clinic

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 …

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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 …

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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 = …

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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 …

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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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2025 Game Week 15: Should I Risk A… ?

By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back. This week, we’re going to talk about risk. Risk is a common theme in these articles because a lot of the strategies we discuss are subjective choices that depend on your style of play. Should I risk a bold move for a potentially higher reward, or play it safe? The more risk you’re willing …

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2025 Game Week 14: Defense against MLS Defenses

By: The Fantasy Physician Picking defenders and goalkeepers just feels “hit-or-miss” or maybe more accurately “miss-and-only-sometimes-hit.” In our last round  – our first big double-game week – I deployed a keeperoo , going from Andrew Rick of Philadelphia to CJ Dos Santos of San Diego FC. That started poorly, when the hapless Galaxy struck twice early on Philadelphia but ended …

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2025 Game Week 13: Building a Double-Game Week Team? (Part 2)

  By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back to Part 2 of our guide to building a double-game week (or DGW) team. In Part 1, I discussed how scores are counted in a DGW, targeting matchups, and managing rotation. In this installment, I’ll cover how to approach picking players at the different positions, how to account for the dreaded yellow card …

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2025 Game Week 12: Building a Double-Game Week Team? (Part 1)

  By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back. We’re about one-third of the way through the season, and hopefully by now you’re feeling comfortable with building an FMLS team. We’ve covered a lot of basic strategies and resources over the past eleven weeks, and now it’s time to start looking ahead and putting those strategies to work for the first double-game …

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