
DraftKings EPL DFS Picks & Strategy: Saturday 5-Game Slate + Underdog
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Adam Zdroik breaks down Saturday's five-game DraftKings Premier League slate before diving into Underdog strategy for the expanded six-game contest.
Manchester City are massive favorites against Coventry City with an implied goal total around three, making Erling Haaland, Phil Foden and the rest of the City attack central to DraftKings roster construction. Is Haaland worth paying for, or does fading him open up a better lineup?
Adam goes position by position through the slate, discussing forwards, midfielders, defenders and goalkeepers along with cash-game floors, tournament upside and salary-saving options. Other matches include Nottingham Forest vs. Tottenham, Brentford vs. Sunderland, Brighton vs. Leeds and Fulham vs. Crystal Palace.
The second half turns to Underdog, including Saturday draft strategy, ADP discrepancies, Manchester City exposure, stacking, goalkeeper strategy and players Adam believes are being drafted too early or too late.
Topics include: Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki, Antoine Semenyo, Manchester City stacks, cheap midfielders, DraftKings cash and tournament strategy, Underdog ADP, late-round values and goalkeeper picks.
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I'm discussing Saturday's 5 games late over at DraftKings and then a little bit of underdog talk for the 6 games late also on Saturday. Go to wire.com slash soccer to get all of your needs. RotoWire.com slash soccer. Get your cheat sheets, get your stats, get your lineups, get your injury news. If you're not subscribed, you need to be subscribed to get the cheat sheets. RW Soccer 35% off your first payment. Also you get access to our optimizer, which will have the RotoWire projections. You also get access to my projections, which are in pin to our discord. Two sets of projections that both can be used easily on the RotoWire optimizer, RW Soccer
35% off. DraftKings, we get this nice, almost beautiful 5 games late on a Saturday. They're like, you know what? If you guys filled all these contests, we're just going to do a 30K chip pass, 10K to first place. We're going to act like nothing happened over the summer. We're going to act like no one played World Cup. We're going to act like none of the contests filled early on. So here you guys go, chip pass, 30K. That's what we get, unfortunately, but we're still talking about it. We're just discussing it. There's still 10,000 to be one. It'd be nice to feel as a little higher. But let's run through linups, run through some odds, and we'll go from there. I'll report Manchester City. Hopefully is going to be defined no matter where you look. It's going to be defined by Manchester City, which isn't surprising. Inplied Gull total, sitting around three. And what are they? 80, above 80% right now, to win. Brentford in the next highest. They're below 60%. They're home against Sunderland Brentford is.
Manchester City, our home against Coventry. Brighton home against Leeds. And then follow home against Crystal Palace, 90 and forest home against Tottenham. The implied total in that game. The implied total for Manchester City is actually higher than the totals. Manchester City's own total is higher than the totals in the other games, or at least near the other totals. So that part, you don't usually see too frequently. That makes this one fun. We'll call it. Just looking at the odds here. Otherwise. Let's run through the lineups here, trying to figure out our calculations on this odds report. 90 and forest home against Tottenham. Again, all these games, if you want, if you're an underdog only, you can use the Fandall Cheech cheats. Those are going to have the full day. Those are going to have this six game, the late.
Actually, is it seven game? Yeah, no, six game. That includes the 1230 game. It is what's on the underdog's late. So 90 and forest kind of know what their lineup is going to look like. Munoz, I don't think he's fit enough to start. So he's not going to be in, but Sangari could come back in for Xavier Schlager. And that's going to be the only real thing that happens. McAtee, Nico Williams, splitting corners. Tottenham, who knows? I already tinkered with this one in the morning. I tinkered with it yesterday. This is kind of what we're looking at here. I move tell back in. We'll see if he gets another start. Maybe he does. I think I initially I had Kudu starting with Kudu's just really hasn't had the minute since like last January when his injury happened. So I removed him on the 11 and I got kind of like a salanky Marmouche playing with each other up top's tell on the left wing for Nand as above Tanali Benton Kerr, which they'd just did in their last game. You know, it could be what they, you know, I don't know. We'll see what Dizzerby does because it hasn't really worked so far with what they've
done. Poro started a little more forward in that last game. Archie Gray got another start. We'll see if that happens again. I'm not sure. I do have a doggie in here, which could change up some set piece situations for Tottenham. But otherwise, there's no need to really use trying to figure out what exactly Dizzerby is going to do. Again, I have Salanky in here. Maybe not. Mikey Moore started the first game. Then he came off the bench in the last game. He's not their team anymore. So that's kind of what we're dealing with. I don't think so. We didn't get their presser. I don't think Savio is going to be healthy and upstart, but maybe he is. Maybe he is healthy. He all the sun. And he's going to start Manchester City. We know about all of their additions. That's obviously going to change up many things. It's going to change up minutes. But again, these players were just added days ago. We have no idea what Marrestka is going to do here. He could be like in Dae and Jay, not going to play you today. Your first game is going to be a start and champions league for us.
Something like that. We don't know. So again, another situation where, okay, how much are we going to be guessing here? I don't know how fit Enzo Fernandez is. He barely played since returning from the World Cup for Chelsea. So I assume he's not going to move into the 11 immediately. If he comes in, that could change up a bunch of things because he'd probably come in for the midfield next to Anderson. So Nico Riley moves to the left back. I think already all is fine injury wise. We'll see what that situation is. And then, you know, otherwise in the attack, don't go. I don't think is healthy yet. And then again, the in Jay situation, assume it's going to be pretty similar to what they just had because again, some of these guys have only gotten a few days of training in some aren't even 100% fit. Coventry lineup probably doesn't matter too much. I move them back to a 4-3-3. I assume if on Yaka is healthy, he's probably going to start over Hammer. I just did that one as kind of a little bit of a off the wall guess in this lineup.
But again, not too much to change here outside of, you know, Rudoni, Hammer, whoever starts in the left wing there. That's the real changes for Coventry. But M. Ants or City, you're probably not going to be thinking about them too much. Full of them. They could actually move one funny thing here, although scrolling through the list and they list full of new center back as a forward, often F and Groober. They list them as a forward, a $5,800 forward. I don't know what happened here. Something wasn't matched correctly. I assume Opta has the correct position. But often Groober is the new center back who apparently is going to eventually start over Yokeem Anderson. So be on the lookout for that. It could be this game. Maybe not. And they got a bunch of new players. So there could be some changes. But again, all these guys, again, you see Hugo, Larsen isn't fit. He just rejoined them. But a lot of them are young. A lot of them don't have a ton of experience. So I assume it's going to be pretty similar for here for Follum. I'll talk about the projections on Follum here because there's just like a little bit of
an issue. I've noticed thing with my projections, but I'll get into that. Crystal Palace. We could see a different center back. Maybe Toma Yasu doesn't start. Maybe it's Dessassi, Pino and Ketia, Saur and Mateta are both out. Kallali. I assume he's going to start again. They added Osorio. Don't think he's going to start immediately. So you got those situations, Gason. I guess it could be an option to start over in Ketia. The Brighton lineup is a little bit of a mix up. We'll see what they look like. I think this is kind of what they did almost last week. We don't have a presser yet. Friday morning. Sorry. I'm not going to be here. I already is not fit. If he's out again, then this is going to change some things up. I don't think Pascagli is actually going to come into the midfield and start in the midfield again. I think it might actually be Kema. Kema, Andres, one of their new signings. We'll see if he's actually fit and ready to start. But I assume something like that is going to happen because Pascagli in the midfield didn't really work. I don't think they do that again.
I would say kind of a similar situation where we're going to have DeKyper and his attacking and winger all Pascagli and then Kadiagli. And again, there was a rumor of Veefer being out for an extended period. We don't have the press conference yet. So if he isn't healthy, probably Kadiagli got right back here. And Yalkouye, the little look alike for a 30-year-old or even 40-year-old, got to go last week. We'll see if he starts again. But otherwise, this is kind of where Liklank, Router also, is a question. Is he going to be ready? If Router is available, I think we could actually get Router instead of Yalkouye. So something to keep an eye on. Leeds the only question maybe would be who takes Road Don't Spot. We got El Vetti in there right now. I think that's most likely. And then is it going to be Aronson and Wilson or is, I know, Okaforgan to start again. I think that would be your option there. So I think of anyone.
I know Perry Wilson was dropped last game. But I said it last week, if Perry Wilson isn't in there, that means more set pieces for Anton Stach. So something to keep an eye on. I don't know how much it mattered last week against Brentford. But Brentford seems like Janssen's still going to be out. I think we could have D.U. starting at left back for Brentford. I don't know if it's going to be immediately or I mean, Lewis Potter has been playing well. Are you going to remove him from the 11 just like that because they signed D.U. We'll see if that happens here. So that'll be the main thing. But it's expected. Don's Garstarts again. I have Dango, Tara, over Jane Anthony. That's going to be a iffy situation pretty much all season. And then Sundarlin, the added Malik Fofana who could come in here on the wing for Trey Hume. So that'll be something to keep an eye on. There's the added a winger. So we may not get Trey Hume in an attacking role anymore. So definitely something to monitor. And then that's going to change up is Muni again to start or Hume going to start right
back that kind of thing. So that's otherwise that's kind of what we're looking at. Not too many crazy things going on. Let's get into the draft King's slate and see what we're dealing with. The problem here I found on the slate is most of the cheap players you want to play are midfielders. So that leaves you with, again, road away that kind of slash soccer, use the optimizer, use our projections that leaves you with playing at least for mine, paying up at forward. Because you can't come in and be like, yeah, I'm going to play three expensive midfielders and then like what are you doing at forward? Because we go here, Cherokee's 10.4 K. Gross is 8.5 K. Foting is 9.6 K. So all those guys, best floors on the slate, highest upside with the man city guys as well, all the way up there. Not to 8K, probably too expensive in the spot. Anderson 7.8 K, probably too expensive for this is like we're getting into Declan Rice
territory with Elliott Anderson. The difference at least in this game is well for one, I think he is probably less upside than Declan Rice would have. And then for two, this is a game where man cities and play totals at three. So I think that one kind of stands out there. So you have all these expensive midfielders, but who are you going to play it forward? Because Holland's 11K. Holland, you can decide what you want to do with him. Do you think he's going to get a brace? Do you think he's going to get a hat trick? Maybe if he only gets one goal and three shots, he's not going to be worth it. But if you think that's going to happen, then I would definitely fade him. If he's getting sub 20 points, probably not going to be worth it. So Semenio at 9.2K stands out at least from a fuller perspective. His upside hasn't been as much as some of these other guys. He's been floating on the wing a lot. That's going to lead to more crosses. But you look at his numbers, three shots in these two games.
If six goals, Semenio has three shots. So that definitely removes some upside. So definitely a worry, I'd say, in terms of if you're like, let me play Semenio for a differential upside play in terms of something. That's one thing I would want to area I'd kind of worry about. So that's one guy who stands out just in terms of the floor. 9.2K obviously still is upside in this attack in this game. But you move down the list and who else do you want to play? You got some standalone strikers. You got the Brentford guys. Okay, they're home against Sunderman. Tiago is a 0.2K. You move down. You have Tottenham players who wants to play Telet this point for 7.9K, Marmouche. And an okay floor, but now they're at 9.4K. Not the worst spot, but not the best spot. 7.6K. Is that really worth it in this spot? For tournaments, I really like Gonzalo Garcia. I think I just like this spot here. I think it'll be an interesting game. Hopefully it's not like, well, the scoreless, one new kind of game for for Fallon, Crystal Palace. But Gonzalo Garcia 7.2K, a Wobie.
We saw him take corners. First couple games, he's 7.1K. Do you really want to spend that much on those guys, given some of these other matchups, given the man city matchup? I think that's kind of hard. We'll see if Brighton really changes things up because they did add a Z's. I think it's from Millwall. He's 6.6K. Something to consider there, but I really don't think he's going to start. He might. Rooters 6.3K. Covered Luminous, always a tournament play at 6.2K. And then our guy off in a Gruber, the center back who is 5.8K. The center back is more expensive than Jay Nathany at 5.6K. Shout out to that. Other like all these center lane guys, I'm really off of them right now because at least the center lane wingers, even Robbie, is just really difficult to be like, yeah, I like this guy for 60, 70 minutes, not even 70 minutes. I don't think any of the wingers have gone more than 70 minutes. Robbie hasn't gone more than 70 minutes in the first two games.
It's just really difficult, especially on the road. So while they won't be popped there, I'm just not sure it's the route out go. Technically, you could see, promise David, get a start for Brighton as well in the attack. He is 5.2K. Toit McNeill, the Crystal Palace guys are down here, 5K. It's not on my board. And in Doi pops up for me, but he's just another guy, sub 70 minutes. I think it's been 66 minutes. He's been subbed off both first two games. But he just pops up because he's 4.6K and he's home against time and he's in the attack. That's why it pops up in the projections. But one that's kind of interesting to me, a little more interesting to me, I'd say we do have, yeah, sorry, just going on, want to make sure. Gayson's 3.5K in case he starts. Strand Larson, if you want the minimum priced striker for Crystal Palace at 3.5K, he is there. So that's kind of what you're looking at. But Anon Cali Lee, this is another defender, he's a wingback.
So it's a little different here for Crystal Palace, but this is the Munoz replacement. He wants 75 minutes in his first start. I don't think he's a 100% fit, but you look at his numbers. He had 5 crosses against Manchester City. So that's a positive sign right there. He's not going to win 7 tackles every game, but it gets on either way. He had 12.4K. I think just in terms of this game, just the way he plays and his role is 4.4K. And if you need a cheap forward, Cali Lee is just here at 4.4K for getting 75 plus minutes here. And if we could say it's an 8.4, I think that's okay for cash games. So it's not like, hey, this is the amazing play, but I think it's definitely an option. Again, Cherokee 10.4K, sorry, moving out of midfield. They're Cherokee 10.4K, Foden 9.6K. So I between the two seems like Cherokee is more upside, Foden playing more on the coming in from the right there, which is part of the reasons why.
Not some menu also had less upside there, but I think Foden's head. Head couple assists. He doesn't have a shot on target yet. So obviously that's not great, but you have Cherokee. Excuse me, Cherokee and Foden are splitting the corners. So that's obviously important. Gibbsway tournament only at 8.8K with no set pieces. And again, I mentioned LA Anderson, just like discount, deckline rise to an extent. And it's really hard to play unless you're in tournaments, be like, hey, maybe you can get to assist here and eat crosses for LA Anderson. Let me actually look at what the set piece situation is for Manchester City. Before I say that, I think all three are on, yeah, okay. Sun set pieces and LA and Anderson is on corners. Yeah, okay. So basically all of them, Anderson seemingly, I don't know, bright-footed Anderson.
Dam's guard didn't really like that he got subbed off. He had sent him was out last week, subbed off at 69 minutes last week. So I think 7.3K, two expensive here. Five for cash games, 7.3K. But home again, it'sunderland. I like the spot as well. But if he's only going 70 minutes, I think that's hurting him. I may rather play I will be at this spot, 7.1K. If that's in the ranger, looking at Wharton is too expensive for 6.5K. Chakka is too expensive for 6.4K. Kudu, I think, is interesting. Speedy-feed draws to start. At least in tournaments, he's 6.4K. Let's look at the ESFP situation for Tottenham here. We have Matthias Fernandez, 9.5F in that first game, right in the starting that last game. And yeah, okay. He split with Robert Simmons what it looks like. Fernandez at 6K at 90 and 4.
It's not the most exciting play, but he's okay. You can look at him like that. Sangaris 5.8K. Where is Janelt? Where is he? Janelt 4.6K. All right. So here's the problem with spending up at multiple midfielders. Is that a lot of the value plays you want are going to be midfielders, midfield only. So yeah, they're all basically in the same range here. Just looking at the list. Kevin Shada. I think Ryan Belange, you won a bunch of contests last week playing him for 3.5K. He's up to 5.3K now, but he's gone. He's gone almost 90 minutes in each of the games. He has eight shots across his first two games. Still think he's a good tournament play. Still think he could be under looked just because of who he is and Brentford in general. So definitely got to give him a shout, but looking further on some of the cheaper midfielders.
So yeah, Janelt at 4.6K. A split of set pieces. 6.6 Flora at Leeds. Okay. 21.7 points, home against Spurs with that goal, but a pretty good Flora. You know, it is downside is that he commits fouls, but he still does a little bit of everything. He tackles interceptions and he's on the split set pieces. Maybe he'll take a random shot or two. So you know that 4.6K home against Sundarlin. You have Pino at Foam. Split of set pieces. 4.6K. That's another, like we saw him in his first start against Manchester City. He had a 12.7 Flore against Manchester City in 68 minutes. Seven crosses. Three fouls drawn. That's tough. Josh King pops up in my projections at 3.6K. That's just another, that's Josh King is more of a tournament play. If you're looking for the super cheap option in your utility or something like that. So the problem here with Foam is that so when doing projections, I have, we project out
what each team is going to do. So we have the Foam projections in the home gaming against Crystal Palace. Their favorite, their play total is whatever. 1.7. Still like that. So those 1.7 or so goals have to come from somewhere. Okay, we got Gonzalo Garcia at that number nine. Oscar Bob notably, just not really a goal score. He's on the right ring. Sayzer Palacios, a young guy without much goal proving it is young career yet is on the left wing. Josh King who scored a goal in the opener has looked really good this season. Still not a ton of goals to his resume. Is your tagging midfielder? Then a Wobie has a bunch of goals in his career, but he's the defensive midfielder. So like the goals have to go somewhere. And Josh King's numbers are a little higher than Palacios and Bob, but they're still not like extremely high, but even just a little bit higher. And then you throw in 90 minutes and you throw in some crosses, chance-graded shots, whatever. And Josh King's floor looks pretty good. His upside looks pretty good as well in home game against Crystal Palace.
So people ask me, what's going on with the projections in Josh King? That's just a situation. There's not really a way around it unless I'm just like, hey, sayzer Palacios, I'm going to boost your chances to score when, yeah, it looks like he doesn't have any senior team goals. Still doesn't have a shot on target for a full-arm. Yeah, it's just a situation of just this lineup with full-arm. Like, who's going to be the outside Garcia? Like, who is someone going to step up and be like the secondary goal scorer? Or is that just going to be Josh King? So right now that's what my projections are saying. So that's why it's a little higher. But I think I may play him a little bit because I do like this spot for full-arm home against Crystal Palace. Moving on to Defender here, Pedro Poro, I think just too expensive here at 7.4K. If we're not getting a guarantee of corners for Poro, I had the 10.4 in that first game though he started playing a little higher for, but 7.4K is a lot on the slate when he had Manchester City as a big favorite.
Can you pay up for DeKyper 6.9K? I think you can. And again, 9th floor against Chelsea last week at Chelsea, 8.9 floor. Home against Leeds not the best spot, but he's 6.9K. I think that's okay. I would play him over Nico Williams who split us at pieces, home against Tottenham, just a less upside. If both these guys have set pieces, but one has more goal upside, that's DeKyper. So I like DeKyper a little more here. Again, that's going to be, you're going to have to find, like, you're going to have to find a way to get those guys in. It's not going to be easy if you're going to pay up for at least two Manchester City players. Otherwise, who is the player who stood out for me? Let me double check. You had DeKyper in here. I guess that was kind of the main one. Otherwise, yeah, I don't think really anything stands out too much. You have the Manchester City players, where there's Bardiel's 4.8K.
So kind of cheap, but that's more of a matchup player right there. Anthony Robinson is 4.8K. Again, his floor has a little better than it was last season. 4.8K, home against Crystal Palace. I'm fine with that. I was pretty much off of him. That's the last season and the World Cup. Yeah. Kayaude 4.5K. Again, I think at this point, Kastanya has actually been playing a little more forward. He's an interesting one at 4.2K for tournaments. Trayhume, again, if he starts attacking, 4.1K for tournaments. I would start to worry about Ola Aina now with Danny Munoz in the team at 3.9K. The scogly on the radar, if he plays as a left back again, 3.9K home against Leeds. That's kind of what we're looking at. If you want to go down, I'm sure there's some centerbacks that you can play. Nadiya 4.0 looks like all their defenders here at 2.5K. So if you don't think to Adam's score and you believe in Ali Glazner and a clean cheat,
you got your Nadiya 4.0 centerbacks. In terms of goalkeeper, I think it's pretty clear that you want to spend down here because you got to get the goals, you got to get their floor plays. There are guys, there are reasons. There's a five game slate. There are reasons to spend up at some of the other spots. So down a room is 6K. So this is a situation of, if you get the winning clean cheat, how many saves does it get to make? Let's say it makes two saves. That's 14 points. There's 14 points going to be worth it. Keller is 5.6K. Probably a similar situation. I don't see Sondorlin as a team that's going to get a ton of shots on target. Her Bergen's 5.2K. I like Leno at 4.9K. Just in terms of the matchup against Crystal Palace. Again, new manager situation of foam and Nadiya 4. So that one is kind of difficult but sells is 4.9K. If you do still want to favor it and get one of those guys, I think that's okay. In terms of getting a underdog keeper, probably Trafford.
I still like this leads back line, even without road don. He's been making saves as well. 4.2K for Trafford. Robin Rufus is 4K. He has one save this season, which is not very good. But I figure make some saves against Bronford. Rushworth is 3.6K. Rushworth in the territory of not making many saves and allowing 5 goals. So probably not going to be my guy this week. But that is kind of what we have here for this trafficking slate. Went a little long here. But plugging slate, that's kind of what you get. So overall, you just got to decide what Manchester City players that you want to pay for. Tournament builds your Holland lineup and make it with, okay, Holland and Cherokee or something like that. They go from there. Or in your cash games, maybe you're on some menu on phone and something like that. Find your guys, maybe even go for three of those guys. That's when you're going to, you can make it work. Like I mentioned the cheat midfielders. You can make it work with three of those Manchester City players.
Obviously it's difficult. You can, you cannot get DeKiper in that team. But you can get some couple of 2.5K centerbacks. But no, you can make it work. You can still get one of those cheap midfielders in there. You can play Kalali as your second forward. You can do things like that. So it's not the worst lineup. If you get three Manchester City players, I assume people are going to be doing that. I assume people are going to do that with maybe Vardial at Defender. Let me see where the centerbacks are. If Ruben DS starts, he's 3.3K. Kushinov is 3.8K. So I think those guys are going to be popular. And you go Riley is a midfielder. So maybe not popular. So that's kind of what you're looking at for Defender. I think those man city centerbacks will be popular just because they're a little cheaper. And they still allow you to get three form other Manchester City players in. So I think obviously this is going to be a man city slate.
It's going to be down to, you know, who's getting the goals in the system for them. Are they going to get five goals or are they going to struggle and get two, three goals? Is Holland going to be getting multiple goals and a ton of shots? That's going to decide the slate. Or is it going to be a lot of set pieces, a lot of crosses, photo and Cherokee doing a bunch of things, that kind of thing? Or is one of those guys going to sub off early and Jay comes in in the 60th minute and you're like, why didn't I just pick Holland to get two goals in the 80th minute from in Jay? Something like that. So that's kind of the idea. I like all the home, I like all the home teams on the slate. I think Brentford are in play for three or so goals. I think Fulham are at least in play for a win. I'm not going to say three goals for them, but I do like them at home against this Crystal Palace side. I think those kind of stand out to me, but that's what I got for this. And then it's really quickly in terms of underdog. If you're still sticking around, let me look this up. So yes, they still have people who have been drafted more moush.
He actually, so he doesn't have a projection. He no longer has an ADP. I guess he doesn't have an ADP, but people were drafting more moush because he's on this slate, but he's actually not going to accumulate points. Some of our subscribers helped us out, talked to underdog, and let us know that they told us, you know, he has an O next to his name because he still listed on Manchester City's team, despite starting on Tottenham last game. He's going to get easier points. So do not draft all more moush. But otherwise, I think just looking at, I've done a couple drafts here so far. Again, all these projections are in our discord. RotoWard.com slash soccer. Sorry, RotoWard.com slash chat to get into our discord. Once you're a subscriber. And the one thing I've been kind of surprised is that people are just like glued to Pasco Gross, which is kind of interesting. Like he's gone the third player drafted and drafted, which honestly doesn't make any sense.
If we're getting Pasco Gross as a split of set pieces and Phil Foden has a split of set pieces, wouldn't you want Phil Foden on your team who is more goal and more assist upside than Pasco Gross, who's in a more difficult matchup? So there's kind of a weird thing going on with underdog where people would rather, I think you kind of just look at, like scoring isn't the same, but if you just want to look at draft King's pricing, you have all the Manchester City players here. You have Foden 9.6, Cherokee at 10.4, Pasco Gross is 8.5. I don't know if they're clicking on his profile and they're like, hey, 15 points at home against C squad ass and villa team. That's amazing. Let's do that. He got a stoppage time goal at the end against Chelsea that added to his point total in a 4-3 game. It just doesn't make sense. I think something's wrong here. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong. I'll admit if Gross has a 20 point floor and Foden,
even some Manio, these guys don't get a goal or assist and have five point floors and I'm wrong. So be it, but overall, it doesn't really make sense. That's one thing that's popped up to me. Sorry, I'm just looking at the ADP here. I'm trying to... All right. Yeah, it doesn't really work. I want my rankings in here. So yeah, I think it's been pretty, the interesting thing to me has been pretty much people are getting Manchester City players basically in the first round and maybe like Ellie Anderson at some point in the second in Don A'Ruma and then maybe no one else. Like no one is even like some drafts, like Vardial is still available. Like you're still getting points for a clean sheet and they do have the best clean sheet odds. I know you look at the numbers for what Manchester City have done in terms of clean sheets. Like if you throw clean sheets onto the Bournemouth
or Crystal Palace game, like Vardial has a really good score. So it's kind of weird that he's would be a guy going under-affected. Poro is still up here. I think DeKyper is still levels above because with DeKyper and even Josh King to an extent who is pretty much he's going, you can get him whenever you want. He's going pretty deep. But I mentioned the Josh King thing here, but the added part about Josh King is not only do I have him for second most on Fulham's team for goals in the cis, but he's also getting points for possible clean sheet. So that's also going to his point total. So that's why he's a little higher in my rankings than you see his ADP showing. So that's definitely something that you can take advantage of if you agree with me. Other things like I noticed it, I posted in our discord, like why is John McGinn and Buen Dio, why is there ADP 15 apart when, you know, there's splitting set pieces and not really a ton of a difference.
You probably have Buen Dianne PKs that maybe is the only difference. Again, this is the, sorry, that's the 1230 game. I asked him a little at-hole city. I haven't talked about that one yet. Kudus is going 25 ADP, which is pretty early for a guy who may not start, pretty early for a guy who, if he starts, it's only going 60 minutes, pretty high for a guy who is an underdog in all those situations. So you have weird things like this where Kudus, okay, sky is 25 ADP. Like that just means, again, I'm kind of saying the same thing every week, like find your spots. A lot, everyone's going to have a man city player because of the first round for the most part. I don't know, people drafting girls in the first round. I don't know what your overall strategy is going to be. Maybe just stacking Brighton. But everyone's going to have a man city piece. So stacking is less of a thing on the six game slate because you're, you just have more floor plays. And yeah, you have more floor plays for one, more better consistent floor plays.
And you also have the man city on this slate where you pretty much a matter of what you want, at least one of their guys. Because if they score five goals, even if they score three goals or two goals, you may be kind of in trouble a little bit. So pick your spots. I like Brentonford. I like Shada. But two guys would probably be Janelle and Shada just in terms of, we know what minutes we're getting. We don't know about the Dango and Damsgar minutes. Your Tiago has also become a nerly sub as well because of Kyle Wilson. So Shada and Janelle stand out to me. Sungare is a really late round pick. If you're thinking, let me get a stack of Brentford players. And I think they're going to score three goals. That kind of a thing. So that's kind of the idea. I do, I have done a couple foam stacks as well. Garcia, King, getting the king with the clean sheet bonus or in play. This is also a slate. I think in my first draft, I went early with Don Arooma. Just nothing you'd need to do. Because I think you have so many.
You can do it. I think I did it because all of the players, I was going to get, we're just ADP's 30 plus. So I could still get whoever I wanted. So if that's kind of your mindset, you can go there. Obviously the best odds to score and best odds to win and for a clean sheet. So Don Arooma makes sense if you have a good plan for later in the draft. But if you don't want to go with him, I think you're in a pretty good, good range of Brentford, Brighton, Fulham, Forest, Goldkeeper, even Estonville, Goldkeeper. You have three, you have decent spots there, wind spots for, for your Goldkeeper and even clean sheet spots. I think all those Goldkeepers aren't in play for a clean sheet as well. But that's all I got here. We went a little along. So a few more games here on this Saturday. But again, as always make sure to give a thumbs up, subscribe to our channel, youtube.com slash at RotoWireSoccer. Again, check out the site, RotoWireSoccer, RotoWire.com slash soccer, RW Soccer is 35% off.
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