Sunday, 29 July 2012

potential opening day lineups updated

http://www.fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk/fantasy-premier-league-lineups-preseason/

Saturday, 28 July 2012

barclays premier league the best midfielders rated part 1

http://www.fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk/barclays-fantasy-premier-league-the-best-midfielders-rated-part1/


Saturday, 21 July 2012

sky sports fantasy football potential bargains part 3


So heres the 3rd part on the Sky Sports football potential bargains.  Ive put the link at the bottom of the site to the first 2 parts (paste it in to your browser if it doesn't work as a link)

I've repeated the context below of this article for people who havent read the 3 articles in order.  Remember these tips can change in their importance as transfers happen. Don't worry though in the week before the opening game I will review all teams, including potential bargains,  so this can be updated


Friday, 20 July 2012

Sky Sports Fantasy Football - Potential Bargains Part 2



So here's the 2nd part of my sky sports fantasy football bargains.  Another 6 clubs done and 1  more part to go.

Ive repeated the context below of this article for people who havent read the 2 articles in order.  Remember these tips can change in their importance as transfers happen. Don't worry though in the week before the opening game I will review all teams, including potential bargains,  so will  be updated


Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Telegraph Fantasy Football potential bargains - part 2

So heres the 2nd part on the Telegraph fantasy football potential bargains.  Ive put the link at the bottom of the site to the first part (paste it in to your browswer if it doesnt work as a link)

Ive repeated the context below of this article for people who havent read the 2 articles in order.  Remember these tips can change in their importance as transfers happen. Don't worry though in the week before the opening game I will review all teams, including potential bargains,  so this can be updated

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

fantasy premier league release ALL player values


So the fantasy premier league player values are finally out even if the fantasy premier league site isn't open.    Not sure what that says but who cares for the moment.

Telegraph Fantasy Football - potential bargains part 1


 Here's the replication of my article for sky sports for the telegraph fantasy football format.  I'm going to repeat parts of that article  in order to set the scene for Telegraph Fantasy Football managers who didn't read the sky Sports article.  As I said with quality over all the premier league this season and the likes of Rooney and  Aguero  looking near must haves in our Telegraph Fantasy Football team, finding value elsewhere is going to be essential.  Here's the first of a series of articles  identifying  value in a player (ie a potential bargain)  after looking through all  teams in the Telegraph Fantasy Football format.  

Monday, 16 July 2012

Sky Sports fantasy football - potential bargains part 1

With quality over all the premier league this season and the likes of Rooney and  Aguero  looking near must haves in our Sky Sports Fantasy Football team, finding value elsewhere is going to be essential.  Here's the first of a series of articles  identifying  value in a player (ie a potential bargain)  after looking through all  teams in the Sky Sports fantasy Football format.  I'm doing them in the best fixture order in my article  "fantasy premier league - analysing the opening 6 rounds of fixtures".  See at bottom of page.



fantasy premier league 2012/13 will be up by the end of the month

The latest word from the twitter account of fantasy premier league regrading when the site will be open is "no exact date yet, but will be up before the end of this month."  Tweeted 21 hours ago.

ARgghhhh

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Fantasy premier league pre-season weekend review 14/7/2012

Here's a review of the weekends friendlies for you fantasy premier league managers.  Just to remind you heres the games:

Fantasy premier league goalkeeper strategy advice and tips for all formats of the game

What's the best way of approaching the choice of goal keeper for your fantasy premier league team.. What type of team should the goal keeper play for and how much money should I spend are questions often asked by fantasy premier league managers.  I'll help solve these questions and give you some choices for this year.   This article will split the analysis in to 2 halves.  Firstly the single goal keeping format of the Sky Sports and Telegraph fantasy football formats and then the 2 goal keeper format of the barclays fantasy premier league and facebook fantasy premier league.  It will also give you some hints on who to choose this year.

Sky sports and Telegraph fantasy football

In these formats were only talking about having 1 goal keeper with no substitutes.  Neither have points for saves and both see reductions in points for goals conceded. I can sum up my advice here fairly simply for those who want to move on

PICK JOE HART!

Heres the reasons:

1.  One goalkeeping choice means you need to pick the best

With no save points and points deducted for goals conceded you need to pick the keeper of the best defence.  Otherwise you will suffer badly.  Having only 1 goalkeeping choice also means there is no where to hide for those games away to Arsenal or United for your cheaper goal keeping option.  

2.  City have the best defence.

 Ok they had 17 clean sheets compared to Man Utds 19 but in all other stats City are the winners.  No other team comes close to these 2 in defensive terms either in clean sheets or goals conceded.  I expect City to out perform United on clean sheets this year even with Vidic back at some stage.  There is no difference in Euro fatigue and City have better defensive midfielder protection (do Utd have any without Darren Fletcher?) plus a better goalkeeper.

3.  De Gea's position isn't safe.

I'm not just talking about SAFs annoying rotation habit when you're at home to Wigan either. Lets not forget if Lindegaard hadn't got injured he may have established himself as the number 1 goal keeping choice.  If you're a fantasy premier league manager playing the Telegraph format also remember that Hart is less likely to be rotated for FA cup games than De Gea.

4.  The value difference is minimal

In the Sky format here's how the top 4 most expensive keepers line up:

Hart - £6.0m
De Gea - £5.9m
Cech  £5.8m
Szczesny £5.7m

With those negligible differences fantasy premier league managers should buy Joe Hart.  By the way at the moment he is owned by 38.5% of fantasy premier league managers compared to De Gea who is owned by 6.15%.

Its a carbon copy  story in the Telegraph format:


Hart - £4.0m
De Gea - £3.9m
Cech  £3.8m
Szczesny £3.7m

Again at the moment Hart is owned by 34.2% of fantasy premier league managers compared to De Gea who is owned by 6.3%.  


So then Joe Hart it is

Barclays and Facebook format

There are essentially 2 fantasy premier league choices here.  Pick and expensive option with the cheapest possible backup or rotate 2 cheap keepers home and away.  In my strategy piece 23 rules 

  http://www.fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk/fantasy-football-strategy-how-to-play-23-rules/

I used the example of Joe Hart and another getting 166 points at a cost of £11m in the Barclays fantasy premier league format vs a rotation of Krul and Vorm with a Newcastle bias in conflict giving 180 points at a cost of £8.5m.  

This was probably an unfair comparison as Newcastle and Swansea had exceptional home form which bolstered these stats.  If you had rotated Blackburn and Bolton during the season you would have ended up with a grand total of 6 clean sheets if you were lucky.  Conversely, if you had banked on Cech as you're big hitter you would have seen a miserly 10 clean sheets.

If you believe that the best option is going for one elite keeper only then I would stick with Joe Hart.  If its possible to find a back up that plays at the minimum price then I would go for that as a back up rather than just pick anyone.  Don't go for Joe Harts back up at City as that will reduce the places you have in your fantasy premier league team for other City places as there's a limit in both formats to 3 players from each team.  

However on balance I don't see the value in spending a lot on keepers and my intention as a fantasy premier league manager is to go for the rotation

Rotation options

The idea here is to pick teams that fit together home and away.  Certain teams have to rotate home and away for police security reasons.  These are fairly obvious but are

Man City and Man Utd
Arsenal and Spurs
Chelsea and Fulham
Liverpool and Everton
Newcastle and Sunderland
QPR and Chelsea
Aston Villa and WBA

There are only 2 options here that are realistic for cheap rotation in fantasy premier league

Aston Villa and WBA
Newcastle and Sunderland ( I think this may be too an expensive an option this year though due to Newcastle and Kruls form from last year)

Using these teams are the easiest way for fantasy premier league managers to deal with this cheap rotation option.

While the fantasy premier league site is not open yet , in looking for other rotations for fantasy premier league managers to consider I have scoured the fixture list for the following teams that I think will give cheap options.  These are:

Aston Villa
Fulham
Norwich
QPR
Reading
Southampton
Sunderland
Swansea
WBA
West Ham
Wigan

 I have considered the rotation possibilities up to round 20 where it will be getting close to the January Wildcard in fantasy premier league.

Here are some of the best fits

QPR and Southampton 

Fits for all games.  I have reasonably high hopes for the QPR defence this year I think they didn't get the clean sheets that there stats deserved last year.   Robert Green should give some save points but may not be as cheap as some fantasy premier league managers would like.

Reading and Swansea

Again fits perfectly.  The  best defensive team in the championship by far, combined with Swansea who had  one of the best home defences.  Only problem is the price of Vorm and the loss of Caulker and Brendan Rodgers organisation

WBA and Villa

Perfect fit but Lamberts attacking philosophy and Fosters price may not make this worth it

Norwich and Wigan

Interesting one this and will be full of potential value for fantasy premier league managers willing to take a punt.  Will Hughton improve Norwichs poor defensive record of last year and will Wigans improvement at the end last year continue.   

Here are some near perfect fits apart from a 2 or 3 of games in the first 20

QPR and Wigan 

Again this would be a gamble on 2 potentially improving  teams by fantasy premier league managers.  QPR's purchase of Green and Wigans end of season form. Al Habsi is always good for save points as a fall back

Aston Villa and West Ham 

Fantasy premier league managers will still have to believe that Lambert can improve on his 3 clean sheets of last year with Norwich to go for this option.  West ham were the worst of the 3 teams defensively last year.
Fulham and Wigan

I don't see too much here unless Schwarzer has a massive price drop

Unfortunately no clear rotating winning option here for fantasy premier league managers so we will reconvene when the values are out for both formats



  



Saturday, 14 July 2012

fantasy premier league transfer analysis - Fabio Borini


Fabio Borini is Brendan Rodger’s first signing as Liverpool manager. The striker has come from Roma where he was on loan and has passed a medical and agreed his personal terms earlier on Friday.


fantasy premier league fixtures this weekend 14/7/2012

Here's the of  pre-season games this weekend. Some have already been played   Well also do a short round up at the end of the weekend.

BARCLAYS FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE RELEASE MORE VALUES - TEVEZ £9.0M!

Come on now, just open the site will you!  Its like some sort of fantasy premier league x factor where there is a stupid long pause before they tell you who's going home.

Friday, 13 July 2012

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE TRANSFER IMPACT - HUGO RODALLEGA TO FULHAM


Background

The Colombian striker Hugo Rodallega has been signed to Fulham on a three-year deal, subject to a work permit, after being released on a free transfer when his contract with Wigan ended last month.

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Sky sports fantasy football – fantasy football geek league open £100 prize for winner


The Sky Sports fantasy football league for fantasy football geek is now open!
The Sky Sports  fantasy football league is called fantasy football geek and the code is 8005082
There’s a £100 prize for the winner.

telegraph fantasy football - summary and key points


So the Telegraph fantasy football site is now open and then there were 2 now that sky has opened.  Again I haven’t done it before but it seems like Sky based on the 30 transfer fixed value model but with no captain.  .  and weirdly includes FA cup games.


Telegraph fantasy football - fantasy football geek league open £100 prize for winner

The Telegraph  fantasy football league for fantasy football geek is now open!

The Telegraph fantasy football Access code is 8000505

There's a £100 prize for the winner.  Its not much, I know but it is cash and not some prize you don't necessarily want and then sell for a quarter of the "value" or give away to a relative!

2ND FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE SITE OPENS- Telegraph fantasy football now open!


Here's the spiel from the site itself:

"£100,000 to be won
Get your first team free


Tuesday, 10 July 2012

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE TRANSFER IMPACT SUMMARY - READING'S SHOREY - SWANSEA'S FLORES AND SPURS' VERTONGHEN

Here's a quick summary of the transfers of the day, a brief analysis of the player and stats and a comment on the fantasy premier league impacts on our possible line ups for the opening game.


WEST HAM LOSE FRIENDLY IN AUSTRIA - FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE LEARNINGS?


The first article following pre-season games to find out who's in form, how the teams will line up and what fantasy premier league bargains are out there.  We will follow the newly promoted teams closely as there is less of a knowledge base from previous fantasy premier league seasons.

Monday, 9 July 2012

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE NEW BOYS - READING FC


We all know the premier league sides and their players and don't need to much preseason to educate us fantasy premier league managers.  However, lets be honest, the Championship is really for those Friday nights  when the missus wants to watch Coronation St and anything is looking better on the 14 inch TV in the spare room.  That's not my girlfriend by the way, a good night in for her is Stoke v Fulham on the TV.  Yes I'm very lucky.


Sunday, 8 July 2012

SKY SPORTS FANTASY FOOTBALL - SITE OPEN - SUMMARY AND KEY POINTS



Sky Sports are the first fantasy premier league site to open.  That can only be good as it will mean more bargain hunting potential.  I haven't done it before but it seems a broadly straightforward.  It has the following key fantasy premier league points to using the Barclay fantasy premier league site as the precedent:

EUROPA AND FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE CONGESTION IN GAMEWEEK 1 FOR NEWCASTLE

Sky sports report that Newcastle will have to play as scheduled their 2nd  premier league game of the season away to Chelsea, of all places only 2 days after playing the 1st leg of their Europa qualifier on the preceding Thursday night.  The Daily Mail have subsequently reported that the tie can be moved if Newcastles opponents agree (although why they would remains a mystery?).  The draw isn't made until 10 August.


GOOD WEB ARTICLE ON FULHAM ATTACHED

http://www.cottagersconfidential.com/2012/7/7/3142965/fulham-fc-finding-formation-and-potential-transfer-targets

Saturday, 7 July 2012

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE PRESEASON CALENDER - ALL THE TEAMS - ALL THE GAMES

Below is a copy of the Suns excellent preseason calender.  I've highlighted in red the key games (does anyone care who Spurs play against Stevenage ?) although the Calender is in full.

Prior to that I've put which team is playing on that day in chronological order so you can check daily to see what's happening.  Where there is an asterix * it means there is premier league opposition playing each other.  We will attempt to give a report on the output from each game:

 JULY


16 - Newcastle
17 -
18 - Villa
19 - WBA 
20 - 
21 - Villa,  Man Utd
22 -  Chelsea
23 - QPR
24 - Arsenal, Villa, Norwich
25 - Liverpool WBA
26 - Everton
27 - Arsenal*, Man City*, West Ham
28 - Chelsea, Spurs*, Liverpool*, Newcastle, Southampton
29 - Everton
30 -
31 - Norwich, Spurs

AUGUST

1 - Stoke
2 - 
3 - 
4 - Villa, Southampton,WBA,West Ham
5 -  Everton
6 - 
7 - Stoke
8 - Man Utd
9 - Spurs
10 - WBA, West Ham
11 - Villa, Everton, Fuham, Newcastle, Norwich, WBA, West Ham, Reading Southampton
12 - Arsenal, Man City*, Liverpool, Chelsea*


 Arsenal
July 14: Southampton/Anderlecht (45-min matches,St Mary’s)
July 24: Malaysia XI (Kuala Lumpur)
July 27: Manchester City (Beijing)
July 29: Kitchee (Hong Kong)
Aug 5: Nigeria (Abukja)
Aug 12: Cologne (A)

July 14: Burton Albion (A)
July 18: Philadelphia Union (A)
July 21: Chicago Fire (A)
July 24: Portland Timbers (A)
Aug 1: Peterborough (A)
Aug 4: Nottingham Forest (A)
Aug 11: Wolves (A)

July 18: Seattle Sounders (A)
July 22: Paris Saint-Germain (New York)
July 25: MLS All-Stars (A)
July 28: AC Milan (Miami)
Aug 4: Brighton (A)
Aug 12: Man City (Community Shield, Villa Park)


July 14: Morecambe (A)
July 18: Dundee United (A)
July 21: Motherwell (A)
July 26: Galatasaray (Jakarta)
July 29: Indonesia XI/Malaysia XI (Jakarta)
Aug 5: Blackpool (A)
Aug 8: AEK Athens (H)
Aug 11: Malaga (A)

July 18: Lokomotiv Leipzig (A)
July 28: Wycombe (A)
Aug 11: Charlton (H)

July 21: Toronto (A)
July 25: Roma (Boston)
July 28: Tottenham (Baltimore)
Aug 5: Bray Wanderers (Liverpool XI, A)
Aug 7: Crusaders (Liverpool XI, A)
Aug 12: Bayer Leverkusen (H)


July 27: Arsenal (Beijing)
July 30: Malaysia XI (A)
Aug 12: Chelsea (Community Shield, Villa Park)

July 18: AmaZulu FC (A)
July 21: Ajax Cape Town (A)
July 25: Shanghai Shenhua (A) TBC
Aug 5: Valerenga (A)
Aug 8: Barcelona (Gothenburg)

July 13: Chemnitzer (A)
July 16: Monaco (Landsberg am Lech)
July 27: Olympiakos (Faro)
July 28: Porto (Faro)
Aug 11: Cardiff (A)

July 21: Hertha Berlin (A)
July 24: Celtic (A)
July 28: Peterborough (A)
July 31: Ajax (H)
Aug 3: MK Dons (A)
Aug 7: Hull (A)
Aug 11: Borussia Monchengladbach (H)

July 18: Sabah XI (A)
July 20: Kelantan (A)
July 23: Persebaya Surabaya (A)
July 24: Aldershot (A)

POINT OF HUGH ... QPR boss Mark Hughes will see pre-season as vitally important

July 14: AFC Wimbledon (A)
July 21: Quarteirense (Vilamoura)
July 24: Sheffield Wednesday (Vilamoura)
July 27: Olhanense (Vilamoura)
Aug 4: Bournemouth (A)
Aug 7: Brighton (A)
Aug 11: Crystal Palace (H)

July 14: Arsenal/Anderlecht (45-min matches, H)
July 18: Etoile Carouge (A)
July 21: Evian (A)
July 28: Ajax (H)
Aug 4: Wolves (H)
Aug 7: Bristol City (A)
Aug 11: Udinese (H)

July 18: Sion (A)
July 24: Columbus Crew (A)
July 28: Orlando City (A)
Aug 1: Sporting Kansas City (A)
Aug 6: Torquay (A)
Aug 7: Yeovil (A)

July 19: Seongnam (A)
July 22: Hamburg or Groningen (A)
July 27: Hartlepool (A)
Aug 8: Derby County (A)
Aug 11: Leicester City (A)

July 21: Port Talbot (A)
July 24: Colorado Rapids (A)
July 28: Ventura County Fusion (A)
July 31: San Jose Earthquakes (A)

July 17: Stevenage (A)
July 24: LA Galaxy (A)
July 28: Liverpool (Baltimore)
July 31: NY Red Bulls (A)
Aug 4: Watford (Spurs XI, A)
Aug 9: Valencia (A)
Aug 10: Southend (Spurs XI, A)


July 17: Worcester City (Albion XI, A)
July 19: Malmo FF (A)
July 24: Tamworth (Albion XI, A)
July 25: FC Copenhagen (A)
July 28: Barnsley (A)
July 31: Stockport County (Albion XI, A)
Aug 4: Sheffield Wednesday (A)
Aug 7: Walsall (A)
Aug 10: Nottingham Forest (A)

July 7: Austria Vienna (A)
July 10: Boreham Wood (A)
July 14: Southend United (A)
July 17: Oxford United (A)
July 21: Colchester United (A)
July 25: FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt (A)
July 27: Dynamo Dresden (A)
July 29: FC Energie Cottbus (A)
Aug 4: Ipswich Town (A)
Aug 10: Braga (A)

July 28: Southport (A)
July 31: Bury (A)







FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE LINEUPS - PRESEASON



We are now close to those vital preseason friendlies which give you an indication of how teams will line up on opening day and also which players are in form and which are not.

Friday, 6 July 2012

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE - ANALYSING THE OPENING 6 ROUNDS OF FIXTURES

Below is the list of in order of the teams with the best fixtures in the opening 6 games of the fantasy premier league season.  I have used 6 as a rough rule of thumb of how far I think fantasy premier league managers should look forward.


DAILY TELEGRAPH FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE SITE AIMING TO OPEN ON 11 JULY 2012

On the Daily Telegraph fantasy premier league website today

"To celebrate 20 years of Telegraph Fantasy Football, your first team for the 2012/13 season will be on us - completely free of charge. The game will be better than ever with more ways to win, real-time score updates and a new mobile website".

VIEW OUR FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE SITE www.fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk Like our facebook page on www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballgeek

To be ready for the new fantasy premier league season go to our sister site for news articles and tips www.fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk.  Like our facebook page on www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballgeek

Thursday, 5 July 2012

THE OLYMPICS - FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS


As if there wasn't enough doubts about rotation and opening day fantasy premier league line ups without the Olympics further complicating things but have no fear we at fantasyfootballgeek have tried to give you all the fantasy premier league implications.

Wednesday, 4 July 2012

NO SURPRISE FOR FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE MANAGERS RVP WONT RENEW


I always hate saying I told you so, but RVP announced  to his fans and fantasy premier league managers that he would not be signing a new contract at Arsenal on his official website.  To be honest, after the transfer of Olivier Giroud it didn't take a genius to see that he was purchased as a replacement for RVP rather than any possible partner as I couldn't  see how he could have fitted in to a RVP based system.

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYER ANALYSIS - SHINJI KAGAWA

Man Utd are another team, like Chelsea, who in my mind definitely needed to sign Luka Modric.  I mean when Wigan get 60% possession against you, you've got to start thinking about whether you should be keeping the ball better.  The fact that SAF got Scholes back from retirement and the impact Scholes had just shows how desperately the issue needed to be resolved.  Michael Carrick isn't the answer, that's been recognised.  So I was somewhat surprised when Shinji Kagawa was signed.  From what Ive seen of him hes seems a tricky dribbling goalscoring midfielder rather than a distributor.  A cynical person would say it was a self financing deal on the back of shirt sales but he should be given the benefit of the doubt.


Tuesday, 3 July 2012

EURO 2012 - FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE WINNERS AND LOSERS


So now Euro 2012 has finished we can sit back and admire the Spanish possession and patient football and now look forward to the likes of Joey Barton (at least after 8 weeks)  and Nigel de Jong flying in to any skilful player like a mad man possessed in the world that is the fantasy premier league

This article will look at who the winners and losers are in fantasy premier league terms from the tournament.

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE STRATEGY - 23 RULES OF PLAY

This is my view on how to play fantasy premier league football in the barclays format. I've summarised my 23 strategy rules at the top of the article with detailed notes under each heading. I will also try and provide evidence for my theories as far as I can. I'm not saying put the rules up on your wall but they're worth taking on board and considering, even if you ultimately disagree with some or all of them:

Sunday, 1 July 2012

Blood Red: What does the past week tell us about Liverpool FC target Gylfi Sigurdsson? - Liverpool FC News - Liverpool FC

Blood Red: What does the past week tell us about Liverpool FC target Gylfi Sigurdsson? - Liverpool FC News - Liverpool FC

FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK - ARE THEY THE RIGHT STUFF?

For fantasy premier league managers under 35 the title is a pun if you had no idea what I was talking about.   For those over, I hope you had a little chuckle.

Have the days of not touching a new foreign transfer with a barge pole in fantasy premier league now gone?  Remember the bad old days of Kezman, Shevchenko,  Alfonso Alves,  Sergi Rebrov, Djemba Djemba and Bosco Balaban.  Or more recently Aquilani and Bebe.

Barclays Fantasy Premier League champion revels in success

Fantasy Premier League champion revels in success

BARCLAYS FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE SITE OPENING IN "MID JULY". FACEBOOK END OF JULY


You will all see from e mails that the Barclays  fantasy premier league format will launch again in mid July.  We  will have initial views on bargains and must haves,  so set your calender!


Around 2 weeks to go for the Barclays fantasy premier league format !


1 month to go for the facebook fantasy premier league format

EURO 2012 - FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE AFFECT ON PLAYERS PERFORMANCE

When fantasy premier league managers  are picking their squads this season, in the back of their minds there will be the following question?  How will Euro 2012  and the Olympics affect their fantasy premier league performance selection and injury record.  . This article will seek to establish whether history shows that summer tournaments affect players fantasy premier league performance or not by comparing players fantasy premier league performance in the season before and after the tournament.