Fantasy football has its own language, and if you are somewhat new to fantasy football, there may be some common fantasy abbreviations that are confusing you. In this article we are going to define several common fantasy football terms and discuss how they impact your team and fantasy season. If you want to get ahead of your fantasy competition, you need to get all of the top notch data and analysis on the market. Get help with player comparisons, player stats, lineup optimization, lineup uploads, and much more.
If you are looking at your roster online, you will see these spots listed below your starting positions. These spots will not count towards your active score for the week, so this is where you will put your players that you do not want in your starting lineup.
Most fantasy leagues include a defense and special teams unit in their active roster. The defense and special teams cannot be a different team. For example, if you chose the Chicago Bears, you would have the Chicago Bears defense and the Chicago Bears special teams as a part of your fantasy roster.
How defenses and special teams are scored can vary from league to league, so you will want to research and make sure you are up to date on the specifics of how your league scores. If you are browsing fantasy football sites, one term that you might often run in to is OPRK. You would simply choose the players that score the most and win.
The points gain and thus the rank change is identical. Likewise, your selection has failed if your overall team score is beaten by everyone else, no matter where those points came from. In its simplest form, the reason these concepts become relevant is because we do not have perfect knowledge, and while we can and do make decent points predictions, we need to apply a layer of risk and reward to this. FPL is a game of relative predictive decisions.
All else being equal, a differential will see your rank move amplified based on if they scored well or poorly compared to higher owned assets, with a non-differential producing the opposite effect. It is in this way that we use ownership, effective ownership and differentials to help guide our decisions. However, I would always advocate first deciding which player s you think are going to score the most outright. If you have a good gauge on this, and get it right, the rest barely matters.
Ownership should only come into play as a tie breaker between two players that we believe will score very similarly. At this point we can then decide whether a safer or riskier approach better suits our own personal circumstances. This defines players as an aggressive move intended to climb ranks swords or a defensive move intended to protect against rank drops shields.
This can work well in scenarios where we can clearly identify the spread of ownership between players, such as a mini-league.
Say you are in second place, you could protect your position from those chasing by ensuring that you have a core of players that each of your competitors owns shields , meaning you all receive equal points in those positions, whilst also opting to bring in a few players that the manager in first place does not own swords in order to attempt to gain a positive differential over them in the form of earning points they do not have access to.
Of course, this only works if your team overall still outscores the others. Differentials do not operate in isolation, however.
In this way, we can differentiate our team whilst technically not actually differentiating the players within that team. Another move that can pay dividends is doubling or tripling-up on a certain team, such as we have seen with Manchester City recently. Many managers have opted to own the maximum of three City assets, in order to maximise the returns from arguably the best team in the league.
By opting for this strategy we are able to make gains on those more cautious managers. After all, if we believe City defenders will score the most points, we should own as many as possible. There will be weeks of boom and weeks of bust, while those other managers achieve more consistent returns, but in the end we will be aiming to have accumulated more points, no matter which weeks they came in.
A further strategy centred around focusing on a single team is that of hedging against a highly-owned player with a lesser-owned differential.
This is often best combined with targeting the cheaper of the two, allowing the extra funds to be funnelled elsewhere, or doubling up away from that popular player. Let us truly define what we want from a differential. As we have identified above, low ownership is not enough on its own. We need that player to outscore the more highly owned alternatives for the differential to actually pay off.
Therefore, I personally pay very little attention to ownership itself and prefer to look for changing circumstances that may indicate I can steal an edge before others identify the same opportunity. Ultimately, the best move is to pick the players that we believe are going to score the most points before anyone else does.
However, seeing as that is an imperfect game, we can apply a little situation dependent strategy. Through the use of differentials, defined not by ownership but by situation, that we have identified ahead of the crowd and tailored to our own specific needs, we can gain an edge and close out that mini-league win or cement our final rank.
Looking to gamble it all on that first top 10k finish? Differentiate yourself from the pack, but do not do it for the sake of it, do it with reasonable and researched picks that have a change of fortunes on the horizon or a statistical shift that no one else has noticed yet. Great article. I've become a big believer in EO this season. I think people saying it's irrelevant and all that matters is 'who you think will score the most points' are missing something.
EO isn't just a number - it is generally a fair reflection of who the FPL community at large -thinks- are going to score the most points. If you bet against it frequently, you believe that your opinion of who will score the most points is more reliable than the aggregate of everyone else's.
I see a lot of differentials, especially on bigger players, as people just trying to be different for the sake of it. If you enjoy the game that way, that's one thing - but that's different to claiming you're actually using the most effective strategy.
For me, being aware of EO is important, but so is choosing the right areas to ignore the template. Some of my better moves this season have been picking players Dallas, Soucek who would go on to become template picks. Some of my worst e. One thing I would say judging EO solely on top 10K is too small a sample size these days, should be atleast top 25K.
Honestly I'd be surprised if there's a huge difference at this stage. But I think earlier in the season this is a very valid point. Top 10K articles after two weeks are a bit silly. I'm going the opposite way as I'm playing catch-up. I dropped Bruno and Gundog this week and have captained Cancelo.
Should make a big difference to my ML ranking - one way or the other. I know you will say current 1 OR has no history, but being that far is almost a statistical anomaly of nailing every single decision.
You can't just own a player because the community think he's going to do well though. Turns out they did. Playing the game based on EO i. People who win FPL don't win it by basing their decisions on what the herd is doing. I've also seen many people this season say that the game is very predictable this season and too hard to make up ground, which is true in some aspects but there have been many chances in recent weeks to gain ground.
There are always chances to make up ground and if you don't take them, that's on you. Teams are having success using a fast, small back between the yard lines and a large power back near the goal line.
However, this creates difficulties in fantasy football since points are awarded for both yardage and touchdowns. See: Basic Scoring and Performance Scoring. Standard Scoring : A system where you receive points for yardage gained as in 1 point for every 25 passing yards in addition to the points awarded in a basic scoring system. Since owners can start two QBs in a superflex league, quarterbacks are generally drafted much higher than in a traditional one-quarterback format.
Also see: flex. Snake Draft : A draft type that focuses on balance. In the first round, each team selects a player in accordance with the draft order Team 1 through Team 10 or Team 1 through Team 12, etc. The team that picked last in the first round would then pick first in the second round. The team with the first pick in the first round would have the last pick of the second round and the first pick of the third round. This weaving format continues for the entirety of the draft.
Draft order is usually randomly selected by the league commissioner. Sleeper : An NFL player who someone believes is going to have a breakout season but may be undervalued in fantasy drafts or is just not a well-known player. Starters or Starting Lineup : The players from whom you receive fantasy points during a particular week.
A typical starting lineup includes one quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, one tight end, one kicker and one team defense. Some leagues include individual defensive players IDPs in lieu of a team defense. See: IDP. Stream or Streaming : Instead of having a dedicated starter week-to-week, an owner may prefer to stream a position. For example, instead of drafting a kicker, an owner can opt to pick up kicker via free agency every week based on matchup.
Stud : A NFL player who has proven himself to be a top-scoring fantasy player at his position. These players should be started each week regardless of matchup and should be benched only during bye weeks and when they are nursing significant injuries. You earn points when any player on the defense records a sack, an interception, a fumble recovery, a safety or a touchdown. You lose points when that defense allows its opponent to score.
Some leagues also include special teams accomplishments, such as kick and punt return touchdowns, as a part of team defense scoring. Team Position : Instead of earning points from one specific player at a position, you earn points from every player at that position on a certain team. For example, if you start the Philadelphia Eagles as your Team QB, you would earn points for what every Eagles quarterback does during a game, not just the starter.
Transaction : A roster change. Some leagues have a transaction fee. See: Cut or Drop, Pickup and Trade. Waivers : Players cut in most leagues do not immediately become free agents and available to any team. Instead, they go on waivers for a day or more. While on waivers, owners can make a waiver claim for the recently released player. Usually, the claiming team with the highest waiver priority gets the player. Waiver Order : Each team begins the season with a waiver priority number that is most commonly the reverse of its draft spot.
So, the team that had the No. Conversely, the team that had the 12th and final pick of the first round would have the No.
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