FPL Heisenberg: Selecting defenders who excel in defensive contributions has its benefits. To highlight this let’s discuss Marcos Senesi, who’s been worth his weight in gold this season.
The Bournemouth defender has achieved defensive contribution points in every game this season. That’s a huge 12 points, which is the same as a defender scoring two goals in six games – which is rare and harder to predict.
Senesi is the highest-scoring defender in the game, partly due to his defensive contribution points. In fact, he’s the third-highest points scorer in the whole game – only Erling Haaland and Antoine Semenyo have more.
Statman Dave: DefCon at the back is the strategy this season. I’ve been banging on about it. Six of the top 10 players in the game are defenders.
Defenders are so, so, so good this season. Senesi, Omar Alderete, Marc Guehi, Gabriel, Jurrien Timber, Tino Livramento.
There are players like Moses Caicedo who have scored more points that Mohamed Salah – we’d never usually see that in fantasy football. It’s kind of broken the value of the game.
When you look at the top 12 players from a midfield perspective, Semenyo and Salah are the only players over £7m. So, we’re in a weird sphere at the back and in midfield – it’s kind of broken the game, you could have £20m in the bank just sitting there.
