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MLSFB Player Roundup – Round 18

Well, it’s been far too long since my last player suggestions. I’ve gotten a few messages about not posting so I hope the recent return to activity has helped to lift your fantasy spirits. Perhaps in the next 4 years I’ll be able to expand the MLSFB team so that content can continue to be provided even when I get distracted …

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MLSFB New Form Difficulty Charts – Round 18

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

Here is the  New Form chart for Round 18 and latest form breakdown for Home and Away games. I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback about the difficulty chart and I’ve made a change to how the game ease is calculated by removing the weight given to bye weeks.  The first chart displays how difficult the next 6 games will be for …

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MLS Fantasy Boss Round 18 Captain Poll

I’m trying something new this week and posting the captain poll early to try and get more responses. I have not looked at a lot of numbers yet, but I believe I have three solid early choices. Don’t forget, the transfer deadline is Friday the 11th at 11:00pm EST so be sure to get all of your trades in and captain set. Remember, …

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Predictions – World Cup Round of 16

    As you all know, I’m a fan of the ELO ranking system. So when the World Cup started, I setup an Excel spreadsheet to help me do the calculations just like I use for MLS. Now that the Group stage is over, I decided to see how I did. Of the the 48 games that were played in …

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MLS Attacking Effectiveness: Rounds 1-15

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

A while back I came across an absolutely fantastic site for those of you who like Soccer charts. It’s called MatchStory and it’s a site that focuses on interpreting soccer data and “using [that] data to tell a story.” In other words, they make a lot of sweet graphs about some of the best soccer leagues in the world. One …

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New Home & Away Rotation Table

    As we all know, there is a measurable home field advantage in MLS (really all sports but MLS has one of the best). Because of this, I created a table that displayed the number of rounds 2 teams would allow you to rotate home and away players. This is the second chart for the 2014 season and represents …

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MLSFB New Form Difficulty Charts – Round 16

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

Here is the  New Form chart for Round 16 and latest form breakdown for Home and Away games. I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback about the difficulty chart and I’ve made a change to how the game ease is calculated by removing the weight given to bye weeks.  The first chart displays how difficult the next 6 games will be …

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/r/FantasyMLS Fantasy World Cup Leagues #2

  The official FIFA World Cup league opened a few days ago, and the original announcement was made at /r/Fantasy MLS, I’m not posting that same info here in case anyone else is still looking for a fantasy World Cup league to join. There are a lot of similarities to the MLS Fantasy Manager game, but scoring is very different. …

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MLS Fantasy Boss Team – Round 15

  I’m not going to lie, I had a very busy week and I dropped the ball of this great value gaining opportunity, so I hope you did not. Expect to see a lot of similar teams this round and everything could come down to the captain pick. But don’t fret, there is always the World Cup to enjoy! Good …

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MLSFB Form Difficulty Charts – Round 15

2015 Home & Away Rotations Weeks 1-18

Here is the  Form chart for Round 15 and latest form breakdown for Home and Away games. These charts pickup on the form of the teams from the end of the 2013 season. The first chart displays how difficult the next 6 games will be for a team. Difficulty is ranked from 1 to 5 and an advantage is given to …

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