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…
- Sale to beat London Irish by 8 points
- Harlequins to beat Worcester by 6 points
- Leicester to beat Gloucester by 6 points
- Newcastle to beat Bath by 5 points
- Wasps to beat Bristol by 4 points
- Northampton to beat Exeter by 2 points
Premiership Bye Situation
In order to help you plan your transfers, here’s a quick overview of the upcoming byes.
This week Saracens are on a bye.
Upcoming byes: Round 19 – Wasps; Round 20 – Bath; Round 21 – Harlequins
Rounds until next bye…
- Bath – 2 Rounds
- Exeter – 6 Rounds
- Harlequins – 3 Rounds
- Leicester – 4 Rounds
- London Irish – 8 Rounds
- Sale – 5 Rounds
- Saracens – This Round
- Wasps – 1 Round
- Worcester – 7 Rounds
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
- Val Rapava Ruskin (Gloucester)
- Alec Hepburn (Exeter)
- Will Goodrick-Clarke (London Irish)
- Max Lahiff (Bristol)
- Harry Thacker (Bristol)
- Julian Montoya (Leicester)
- Agustin Creevy (London Irish)
LOCKS
- Elliott Stooke (Wasps)
- Sean Robinson (Newcastle)
- Freddie Clarke (Gloucester)
- Jean-Luc Du Preez (Sale)
- Lood De Jager (Sale)
- Stephan Lewies (Harlequins)
BACK ROW
- Jasper Wiese (Leicester)
- Tom Willis (Wasps)
- Steven Luatua (Bristol)
- Hanro Liebenberg (Leicester)
- Tom Willis (Wasps)
- Daniel Du Preez (Sale)
SCRUM-HALF
- Danny Care (Harlequins)
- Alex Mitchell (Northampton)
- Nick Phipps (London Irish)
FLY HALF
- AJ MacGinty (Sale)
- Freddie Burns (Leicester)
- Will Edwards (Harlequins)
CENTRES
- Fraser Dingwall (Northampton)
- Andre Esterhuizen (Harlequins)
- Rohan Janse Van Rensburg (Sale)
- Semi Radradra (Bristol)
- Guy Porter (Leicester)
OUTSIDE BACKS
- Tyrone Green (Harlequins)
- Ollie Hassell-Collins (London Irish)
- Paolo Odogwu (Wasps)
- Arron Reed (Sale)
- Nemani Nadolo (Leicester)
- Tom Roebuck (Sale)
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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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