2012 Premier League Fantasy Football Tips: Last-minute guide

The 2012 Premier League Fantasy Football is on fantasy managers looking for some last-minute research ahead of Saturday’s kick-off. By this time you should have an idea of your own team composition for the upcoming premier season.

Now scouting for players out whom you're going to pick for your fantasy team is tricky one. Your selected players score points based on their actual performances in Premier League. Some believe that Fernando Torres and Sergio Aguero are the best candidate for Fantasy Captain as well as best striker in Gameweek 1.

Your managerial skills to the tested with a £50m to £100m budget depends on your league to assemble a team from the league’s finest players. Premier League preseason are as important to fantasy football draft preparations as well. The following list of players in form that produces goal during the pre-season summer games.

6 Goals – Danny Graham, Swansea City

5 goals – Mladen Petric, Fulham and Billy Sharp, Southhampton

4 goals – Djibril Cisse, Queens Park Rangers and Sam Baldock, West Ham United

3 goals – Sergio Aguero, Yaya Toure, Steven Naismith, James Vaughan, Bobby Zamora, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Adam Le Fondre and Mauro Boselli

Make sure your have a couple of this players mentioned below on your team, according to Fantasy Football blog based on ‘minutes played per fantasy point’ (MFP) statistic last season, the average number of minutes on the pitch it took a player to earn one fantasy point last 2011 season.

Goal Keepers MFP

De Gea 20.49

Hart 23.13

Vorm 22.18

Mignolet 22.34

Krul 23.18

Defenders MFP

Rafael 16.38

Zabaleta 19.19

Taylor R 19.26

Vermaelen 19.85

Kompany 20.03

The top 10 in the table below provides a clear indication that forwards and midfielders are more likely to spend fewer minutes on the pitch to earn each fantasy point. So invest in strengthening the midfield and forward areas, while picking defenders and goalkeepers who play regularly.

Rank - Name - Club - Position - MFP

1. Cisse - NEW - FW - 10.92

2. Dzeko - MANC - FW - 11.79

3. Johnson A - MANC - MID - 12.13

4. Aguero - MANC - FW - 12.64

5. Rooney - MANU - FW - 12.88

6. Van Persie - ARS - FW - 13.06

7. Young - MANU - MID - 13.29

8. Nani - MANU - MID - 14.03

9. Van der Vaart - TOT - MID - 14.26

10. Balotelli - MANC - FW - 14.34

Telegraph Fantasy Football ables you to select your Premier League Fantasy Football team of eleven players now, you’ll be able to change it as much as you like, as often as you like, right up until the first kick-off at 3:00pm on Saturday, August 18. Harry Redknapp, who was recently appointed a Sky Sports Fantasy Football ambassador, said: ‘I suppose City will be favourites and then Man Utd, Chelsea and Tottenham again.'

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You can check the printables players list, go here >>> https://i.fantasyfootball.telegraph.co.uk//premierleague/pdf/TFF_player-list_2012-v5.pdf

Also read: Robin Van Persie Transfer to Man United