Goalkeeper picks and tips for your Fantasy Premier League Team season 2011/2012

Less than week to go until the begininng of the Fantasy Premier League, so it's about time to start looking at the top picks and tips for your team. I'll try to give comments about the best player for your team in every price range. So, no more blabbering, let's get right to business.

GOALKEEPERS:

Over £6M
At the top of the price list for goalkeepers are ManCity's Joe Hart and Chelsea's Petr Cech. Out of these to I'd pick Hart. He played a great fantasy soccer season last year with 175 points edging out Cech with 17 points. Manchester City has been quite active on the transfer market again this season, and I think they just might have the team to go all the way. ManU's Van der Saar called it quits last season and the pressure of catching balls has been transferred to one David de Gea. This Atletico Madrid transfer has the pricetag of 6.5M and is only half a mill cheaper then Hart and Cech but might a good buy on the long run.


Under £6M
We're all after a successfull budget goalkeeper aren't we. Best choices would seem to be Wigan's Al-Habsi costing 4.5M and WBA's Foster with a 5M tag. Out of these two I'd start with Al Habsi for the soul reason of fixtures. While Wigan's first three matches are against Norwich, Swansea and QPR, WBA opens with matches against ManU, Chelsea and Stoke.

Halfway there - A look at the first half of Fantasy Premier League

Hi again!

And again sorry for the lack of posts, I sadly haven't been able to write this blog for the last few months, but hopefully I'm back for good this time.

But as the title says, it's time to take a look at the first half of the ongoing fantasy premier league season. Who have been player with most flare and who do you want to have on your team as the second half of the season unravels.

TOPS:

There isn't too much to argue when looking for the top goalkeeper of the first half. It's of course Manchester City's Joe Hart. Hart has collected an astonishing 103 points, which is a great number for a goalkeeper. At the time of the writing Hart tied as the 7th highest pointscorer in the whole league. A definite hot tip for fantasy premier league for the remaining of the season.

When it comes to defender's though, choosing a player isn't all that easy. There hasn't been any player who has outperformed others this season. As this is the case I choose Stoke City's Robert Huth as the top defender of the first 50% of the FPL season. Other hot tips for fantasy premier league defenders include ManU's Evra and Vidic.

Midfieldels have usually been the players who dominate fantasy premier league pointswise, but that doesn't appear to be the case this season. And with the big players as Lampard and Fabregas having been injured for the majority of the time, the top scoring midfielders haven't been able the make such an impression. Even though not leading the pack, I choose Tottenhams Rafael Van der Vaart as the top midfielder.

Perhaps the biggest surprises of the season have been seen in the forwards-category. Players like Elmander, Carroll and Davies have kept the top spot for many gameweeks even though none of those players has pricetag over 7M. The last few gameweeks have put Tevez and Drogba again in the top, but the top striker of the first half must be Bolton's Johan Elmander.

That's all for now, I'll be back with the tips for the gameweek 22 of the fantasy premier league in a few days.

Best team for Barclays Fantasy Premier League Football Season 2010/2011

UPDATE 13.08.2010 As it always seems to happen in Fantasy Premier League, last minute changes do occur. Some players are not fit to play or something like that. There were too many questionmarks in my team, so I changed some players. Here is my new team. No time to explain the choices I'm afraid...

Well, good luck with gameweek 1 and remember to check that none of your teams players are yellow or red-marked!

Or at least I'd like to think so. :) As this is the team I'm entering to this season's Barclays Fantasy Football (almost probably for sure maybe I won't do any more transfers...)

I've given a few Fantasy Premier League hints in the previous posts, but this is the ultimate advice, as I'm going to give away my whole team. Feel free to take suggestions from it...

Let's start with why I chose these players and what makes this the best team for Fantasy Premier League:

Goalkeepers. I've been going on and on about Foster and my faith is still strong he's going to be amazing this season. My number 1 goalkeeper that I hope will play every game. My second goalkeeper is Myhill from West Bromwich, he's cheap, he plays, and West Bromwich is going to make few surprises this season I presume. Goalkeepers cost me £8.5M.

Then to the defence. My tip from earlier, Samba, he's there. From Wolves Jody Craddock (132 points last year, 5 goals, 2 assists, 13 bonus points) very very decent defender for £5M. And also Kevin Foley, who will be my substitute defender (means he's cheap, and probably plays for sure if Craddock doesn't) 2 playing defenders are Shawcross from Stoke and Evra from ManU. So for defence I spent £26.5M.

Midfield consists of Lampard, N'Zogbia, Bale and Malouda with Etherington as substitute midfielder. Lampard, yea you know why. He'll be the captain of my team in the first gameweek. Malouda played a great last season and will improve. N'Zogbia, Bale and Etherington are real value players, prices low, sure starting formation players who can score and assist goals. So they're in. Midfield costs me £41M

And then the forwards, tricky as ever. As I've spent most of my money now, Drogba and Rooney are out. Tevez was my hint of hints last season and finally he showed what he can do. Surely as good a striker as Drogba and Rooney, Tevez and his £10.5M pricetag convinced me once more. And then Saha from Everton. 13 goals last season and price of £8M go together nicely. My third forward is Kevin Doyle from Wolves. A forward I'll probably keep for a long time. And everytime Wolves plays against a weaker opponent he'll be a sure starting formation player in my Fantasy Football team. His price is £5.5M, great bargain material as he did score 9 goals last season. And that sums my £100M team as forwards cost £24M. 

What do you think is the best team for this seasons Fantasy Premier League?

Players under 5M for your Premier League Fantasy Football team - Goalkeepers

It's fair to assume that players that cost a lot, should do pretty well in Fantasy soccer manager game. But finding an able player from little lower from the pricelist is a little tougher task. Let's see who are good budget players for your Fantasy League team.

First goalkeepers:

4M Sorensen, Stoke

Stoke City's Thomas Sorensen has started the season with a bang. 16 points from 3 first games is an ashtonishing achievement for any goalkeeper, let alone for one who has a pricetag 4M.

4M Jensen, Burnley

One of the biggest surprises of the season beginning has been Burnley, and a lot of that can be awarded to their goalkeeper Jensen. Leading the goalkeeper's pointchart with 21 points, it remains to be seen whether his form will last the whole season.

4.5M Kirkland, Wigan

Wigan has a solid defence and that promises good things for their goalkeeper Kirkland. Against middlecast teams, you can count that his going to pull a few clean sheets this season.

Choosing competitive players in Fantasy Premier League - Player Tips - Goalkeepers

Now it's time to look at some interesting players to buy for your fantasy premier league team. Let's start with goalkeepers. Last season's top goalkeeper was, surprisingly I might add, Fulham's Schwarzer. With only 34 goals conseded he ended up with 175 points. This season I think these three goalkeepers will perform great in the league.

6.5M Peter Cech Chelsea

I think this will be Chelsea's year, and even while being one of the three most expensive goalkeepers in fantasy premier league, I'm sure Cech will be the one with most clean sheets out of the trio.

5.5M Shay Given Manchester City

Manchester City's Given didn't have a great season after transferring to ManCity, but I think this season with the big money being invested in City, Given will be on the top of his game also.

4.0M Thomas Sorensen Stoke City

With this price Stoke City's Sorensen is a catch. Against little weaker teams, he's very able to keep balls out of his net.