Strategy Clinic

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

        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 = …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …