Welcome to our latest instalment of our weekly pre-match updates where we analyse the weekend’s lineups, crunch the stats and see what the bookies are thinking to help you optimise your lineups for peak performance this weekend! By the time you finish this article you should have all the insight you need to score big fantasy points this weekend. Make sure you come back every weekend before finalising your lineups!
A reminder that this season we have two games running for Prem, The Rugby Magazine and Fantasy Rugby World, so sign up and get picking!
Potential mismatches
Here are the projected lines courtesy of Paddy Power…
- Harlequins to beat Newcastle by 17 points
- London Irish to beat Worcester by 11 points
- Gloucester to beat Northampton by 7 points
- Saracens to beat Leicester by 5 points
- Bristol to beat Bath by 4 points
- Exeter to beat Sale by 3 points
Premiership Bye Situation
In order to help you plan your transfers, here’s a quick overview of the upcoming byes.
This week Wasps are on a bye.
Upcoming byes: Round 20 – Bath; Round 21 – Harlequins; Round 22 – Leicester
Rounds until next bye…
- Bath – 1 Round
- Exeter – 5 Rounds
- Harlequins – 2 Rounds
- Leicester – 3 Rounds
- London Irish – 7 Rounds
- Sale – 4 Rounds
- Worcester – 6 Rounds
Saracens, Gloucester, Newcastle, Bristol and Northampton have no more bye weeks
Expected to go well on Fantasy Rugby World and The Rugby Magazine
*Players who are starting favourably out of position (i.e. Hooker in back row, Centre on wing, etc.)
FRONT ROW
- Mako Vunipola (Saracens)
- Vincent Koch (Saracens)
- Oli Hoskins (London Irish)
- Bevan Rodd (Sale)
- Harry Thacker (Bristol)
- Tom Woolstencroft (Saracens)
- Agustin Creevy (London Irish)
LOCKS
- Sam Skinner (Exeter)
- Rob Simmons (London Irish)
- Freddie Clarke (Gloucester)
- Cobus Wiese (Sale)
- Lood De Jager (Sale)
- Hugh Tizard (Harlequins)
BACK ROW
- Jacques Vermeulen (Exeter)
- Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
- Jack Clement (Gloucester)
- Juarno Augustus (Northampton)
- Archie White (Harlequins)
- Daniel Du Preez (Sale)
SCRUM-HALF
- Danny Care (Harlequins)
- Raffi Quirke (Sale)
- Nick Phipps (London Irish)
FLY HALF
- AJ MacGinty (Sale)
- Alex Goode (Saracens)
- Tommaso Allan (Harlequins)
CENTRES
- Nick Tompkins (Saracens)
- Andre Esterhuizen (Harlequins)
- Rohan Janse Van Rensburg (Sale)
- Semi Radradra (Bristol)
- Curtis Rona (London Irish)
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Tyrone Green (Harlequins)
- James Stokes (London Irish)
- Tom O’Flaherty (Exeter)
- Duhan Van Der Merwe (Worcester)
- Siva Naulago (Bristol)
- Louis Lynagh (Harlequins)
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Premiership Rugby Injury News
Gaining reliable Injury news for the Premiership is extremely difficult, and while we don’t have a database of the latest injuries at Fantasy Rugby Geek, we would highly recommend The Rugby Magazine’s injuries page which remains the most exhaustive source of Premiership injury news that can be found. Details of this and many other useful Fantasy Rugby resources can be found at our Resources page.
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