Strategy - How to spend your 100m

My strategy is simple and it should be more or less similar to yours. First is to buy 2 or 3 premium players. These are your proven point scores. Gerrard and Lamps come to mind now that Ronaldo's gone. They are costly and should take slightly less than half of your total budget. Next is to buy cheap players newly introduced into the game that you expect to do well. These would be a bit of gamble, which may pay off handsomely. Think Arshavin from last season. This season's picks for me would have to be Milijas and Gomez so far. Zhirkov too when he gets well. Of cos you may get the occasional dud, like last seasons Deco. These two groups of players are the keepers, especially if the Milijas' and Gomez-es get the points. The remainder of your budget is spent on picking players by their matches, those you would expect to do well given their match-ups. These would be from the mid-table teams or bottom of table. They are cheap, and have a chance of doing well.

The other point to note is to watch out for players whose values drop. Recent seasons this tactic does not really work because the value fluctuates much less. But you can still pick up a few gems like this. For example, drubbing like Everton's 1-6 defeat to Arsenal might allow you to pick up their players. Everton will not become a bad team overnight so their players can be season keepers.