Mixing Premiums and Value<\/p>\n
Premium players are safe picks. Yes, they\u2019re expensive, but you can be pretty sure they\u2019re going to get you a decent haul of points. However, with a \u00a3100m budget in the game, you can\u2019t just pick premium players; you need some cheaper players that are going to be good value.<\/p>\n
Lauren Hemp, Ellie Carpenter, Bunny Shaw and Alexia Putellas are all examples of premium players; they\u2019re all \u00a37m or more, but have all returned at least 40 points in the first 5 matchweeks. It\u2019s therefore unsurprising that all of these players are each in at least 30% of fantasy teams.<\/p>\n
As for finding cheaper players that are good value, that\u2019s a harder skill, and one that no fantasy manager will ever perfect. The game\u2019s top scorer, Oc\u00e9ane Hurtr\u00e9 (53), is only \u00a36m. Even the most loyal Birmingham City supporter wouldn\u2019t have predicted one of their players would be topping the list. And considering she\u2019s selected in just 9% of teams, many fantasy managers still can\u2019t quite believe it.<\/p>\n
The best value player in the game (value = points per game \/ \u00a3m) so far this season has been Newcastle United\u2019s Kaitlyn Torpey. Last season she would\u2019ve scored just 19 points, so it was fair that she was valued as the joint-cheapest player in the game at \u00a34m. Five matches in, Torpey has 43 points (more than double her total from last season) and is at 12% selection. If you needed value in your team in Leg 1, Torpey was the best player to pick.<\/p>\n
But moving forward, what can we learn from that? Am I telling you to fill your MW6 team with \u00a34m players? Absolutely not. But having a mix of premium players and cheaper points-scorers is certainly the way forward. With the unexpectedly high number of low-value players scoring a high number of points, it may sometimes be the case that you don\u2019t even need to spend your full budget to get the best team possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mixing Premiums and Value Premium players are safe picks. Yes, they\u2019re expensive, but you can be pretty sure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-920553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}