First time doing it this year, and I know fuck all about fantasy prem (I follow the league but as far as fantasy scoring/etc goes I'm flying blind for now).

Here's my initial team (100m budget, start 11 players per week):

G Begovic
G Jaaskelainen
D Koscielny
D G. Johnson
D Ivanovic
D Kompany
D Evra
M Walcott
M Arteta
M Oscar
M Dembele
M Ward-Prowse
F Altidore
F Sturridge
F Kone

Anyone else playing this year?

Going to be honest, i had no idea this existed.

You have 100m to spend on 15 players, and can transfer guys throughout the year - but their value goes up and down week by week, so part of the goal is to get guys you think are undervalued at that moment. You get points for minutes played, goals, assists, a whole bunch of categories.

I don't know how it'll go (since it's my first season playing) but I figure why not, could be fun.

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/

It is fun.

Stay away from defenders on terrible teams. I know they might be good, but from my experience the goals allowed (when they have nothing to do with it) is just too frustrating lol.

Also stay away from guys who get lots of cards.

The best thing to do is take a flyer on a forward/winger who isnt worth a lot and hope they beast. Altidore in his current form is a good bet for you. I had Andy Carroll a few years ago for Newcastle (2011??). That was a fucking steal. Carried me to my title (I traded him in for Van Persie after his hot start cause their values were close enough for me to make it work).

The other thing is go with the GK who will put up clean sheets OR a crappy team where the GK will get lots of saves. Dont go for the decent team GK, cause they wont get enough action for the amount of goals they let in...

Hope that all made sense/helped.