Review the Midfielders for FPL 2016/17

It's time to review the midfielders for Fantasy Premier League, the largest number of players are classed as midfielder with total around 200 players. That is almost half from total players in EPL. To make it more systematic, we will divided them using BMM price class for midfielder and you can read it here Fantasy football budget, where to spend more?.



Expensive (10-15M)
For 2016/17 FPL, there are only 3 players that classed as expensive midfielders. Compared to others midfielder, they are the most expensive right now. Bring them into your fantasy team means you need to reducing your budget somewhere else.

Name	Team	Pos.	Value(M)	Points	Total Games	PPG	PPM
Sánchez	ARS	MID	11	167	27	6.2	15.2
De Bruyne	MCI	MID	10.5	131	24	5.5	12.5
Hazard	CHE	MID	10	104	28	3.7	10.4

Average (8.0-9.9M)
There are 15 players been classified as average in value. Some of them offering good points per million and scoring more fantasy points than expensive midfielders. R. Mahrez still offering the best return if compared to others midfielder even at price rate 9.5M. There are some surprise, new Man. City and Man. United signing, Duran and Mkhitaryan also rated in the same class at 9.0M and 9.5M.

Name	Team	Pos.	Value(M)	Points	Total Games	PPG	PPM
Mahrez	LEI	MID	9.5	240	35	6.9	25.3
Özil	ARS	MID	9.5	200	33	6.1	21.1
Eriksen	TOT	MID	8.5	178	34	5.2	20.9
Payet	WHU	MID	9.5	171	26	6.6	18
Alli	TOT	MID	8.5	166	32	5.2	19.5
Mané	LIV	MID	9	160	35	4.6	17.8
Firmino	LIV	MID	8.5	155	27	5.7	18.2
Martial	MUN	MID	9.5	141	30	4.7	14.8
Coutinho	LIV	MID	8	129	23	5.6	16.1
Touré	MCI	MID	8	129	28	4.6	16.1
Ramsey	ARS	MID	8	119	28	4.3	14.9
Sterling	MCI	MID	8	96	28	3.4	12
Silva	MCI	MID	9	96	21	4.6	10.7
Agudo Durán	MCI	MID	9	0	29	0	0
Mkhitaryan	MUN	MID	9.5	0	31	0	0

Cheap (4.5-7.9M)
There are large number of players at price rate below than 7.9M and we will filtering them based on game time and performance to get the best player among them. Here we list down the top 30.

Name	Team	Pos.	Value(M)	Points	Total Games	PPG	PPM
Ayew	SWA	MID	7.5	171	29	5.9	22.8
Arnautovic	STK	MID	7.5	165	32	5.2	22
Barkley	EVE	MID	7.5	158	33	4.8	21.1
Sigurdsson	SWA	MID	7.5	158	34	4.6	21.1
Tadic	SOU	MID	7.5	157	33	4.8	20.9
Mata	MUN	MID	7.5	145	34	4.3	19.3
Willian	CHE	MID	7.5	135	32	4.2	18
Fàbregas	CHE	MID	7.5	133	34	3.9	17.7
Noble	WHU	MID	6.5	133	33	4	20.5
Dier	TOT	MID	5.5	130	35	3.7	23.6
Drinkwater	LEI	MID	5.5	129	33	3.9	23.5
Antonio	WHU	MID	7	126	24	5.3	18
Milner	LIV	MID	6.5	123	26	4.7	18.9
Lamela	TOT	MID	7	123	33	3.7	17.6
Albrighton	LEI	MID	5.5	117	36	3.3	21.3
Pedro	CHE	MID	7.5	113	27	4.2	15.1
Redmond	SOU	MID	6	110	32	3.4	18.3
Kouyaté	WHU	MID	5.5	110	30	3.7	20
Lallana	LIV	MID	7	109	28	3.9	15.6
Kanté	CHE	MID	5	108	35	3.1	21.6
Cabaye	CRY	MID	6	105	29	3.6	17.5
Lanzini	WHU	MID	6.5	100	23	4.3	15.4
Navas	MCI	MID	6.5	99	30	3.3	15.2
King	BOU	MID	5.5	98	30	3.3	17.8
Shaqiri	STK	MID	6.5	97	26	3.7	14.9
Bolasie	CRY	MID	6	96	24	4	16
Krkic	STK	MID	6	94	27	3.5	15.7
Surman	BOU	MID	5	90	36	2.5	18
Fernandinho	MCI	MID	5.5	90	29	3.1	16.4
Dembélé	TOT	MID	5.5	89	27	3.3	16.2

All players above are good players with good price, it is a big list for reference and we should refer to the fixtures to take a player with good fixtures. This big list also an option for rotation. There are more players that not in this list that will be highlighted in below watchlist.


Watchlists:
Walters 6.0M Stoke ~ potential to start as striker, penalty taker
Deulofeu 6.5M Everton ~ potential set-pieces taker
Boyd 5.5M Burnley ~ attacking threat
Jones 5.0M Burnley ~ set-pieces taker
Snodgrass 5.5M Hull ~ set-pieces taker
Sam Clucas 5.0M Hull ~ set-pieces taker
Downing 5.5M Midlesbrough ~ set-pieces taker
Leadbitter 5.0M Midlesbrough ~ set-pieces taker, penalty taker


Home performer midfielders:

This chart are based on FPL 2015/16 Players Performance Index. At the right side on the chart you see the best midfielder. Based on this chart, K. De Bryune scoring the highest average home performances index that is 25 points. Followed closely by M. Ozil, M. Antonio, and R. Mahrez with 23 points.


Set Pieces taker in top 40 Midfielders:
There are 15 set-pieces taker in the top 40 midfielders during 2015/16 season, below are the list.

Player	Club
Mesut Özil	ARS
Christian Eriksen	TOT
Dimitri Payet	WHU
Ross Barkley	EVE
Gylfi Sigurdsson	SWA
Cesc Fàbregas	CHE
Juan Mata	MUN
Dusan Tadic	SOU
Kevin De Bruyne	MCI
Yaya Touré	MCI
James Milner	LIV
Willian	CHE
Eden Hazard	CHE
Matt Ritchie	BOU
Yohan Cabaye	CRY

That all for now, we hope you know how to get the best from this article and good luck with your team. Don't forget to like BMM facebook page to be the first one who will receive notification on any latest update from BMM.


Note:
1. GK-Goalkeeper, DF-Defender, MF-Midfielder, ST-Striker.
2. Points-Fantasy Premier League Points in 2015/16.
3. Value(M)-Fantasy Value in Million. PPM-Points per millions. PPG-Points per games.
See also:
Review the Defenders for FPL 2016/17
Review the Goalkeepers for FPL 2016/17
EPL 2015/16 Top 20 Goalkeepers
EPL 2015/16 Players Specific Position FPL