Strategy Clinic

  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 …

By: The Fantasy Physician With ten weeks of Fantasy Strategy Clinic articles under your belt, you are starting to get the hang of this game. Look for good matchups. Find the strong players with high floors and ceilings on the teams with those good matchups. List out the players in the positions you are interested in. Get a lineup together. …

By: The Fantasy Physician Time for your scheduled follow-up!  Back in Round 6, we introduced the idea that players in FMLS have a floor – a base score made up mostly of bonus points– and a ceiling – i.e. a capacity to reach a higher score if the right things happen: clean sheets, assists, and goals. Nothing is certain about players’ …

By: The Fantasy Therapist Welcome back, how are you feeling after 8 game weeks? There have been some weird results this year, some surprises, and lots of chaos. It can be tough to manage sometimes, and one of the ways many managers like to deal with FMLS’ particular brand of chaos is by using external resources to help inform their …

By: The Fantasy Physician If you simply leave the team you put in place last week, you are not too likely to do well this week–that means you are going to have to spend some time building a team for this upcoming weekend. FMLS allows for unlimited transfer each week, but with that freedom comes the task of thinking out …

By: The Fantasy Therapist Well, we’ve made it through the first FCL qualifying round. Congrats to all those who qualified! If you didn’t get in, and qualifying is important to you, this week I’m going to talk about an important strategy as we get deeper into the season: assessing matchups. The Sacred Art of Matchup Analysis Strengths, Weaknesses & Variables …

By: The Fantasy Physician Visitors to my real clinic (I am both a Fantasy Physician and one in real life) may ask, “Doctor, which foods should I eat?” My answer is “Healthy ones, of course.” Then, they of course follow up with “Any foods I should avoid?” to which I reply, “Certainly, avoid the unhealthy ones.”  So too in the …

By: The Fantasy Therapist With four game weeks gone, how are you feeling? The last couple of weeks have been a little… wild, to say the least. FMLS has thrown just about every crazy thing that could happen in fantasy at us, sometimes all at once – missed penalties, freak injuries, wacky own goals, disastrous reffing decisions, boneheaded plays – …

By: The Fantasy Physician What is the Bench for? If you’re a new fantasy manager, you should already be familiar with the substitution rule:  the highest scoring player from the bench is inserted into the lineup if a player on the field does not play, so long as the resulting lineup is a legal one. When learning that, an ambitious …

Welcome back! How are you feeling with two game weeks in the books? Everybody knows the heavy hitting players to choose in FMLS, but are you starting to get a sense of some value players in the game? Early weeks can be stressful when it comes to budget. It’s not always possible to grab every player you want without hitting …