Fantasy football managers love the thrill they experience when allocating their budget. However, you will find that daily fantasy football budgets are often a lot ‘tighter’ than what you may have experienced if you’ve played in traditional season-long contests so you might not be able to afford to include quite so many of the more expensive options in your team. Roughly the same fundamentals can be applied for all games regardless of operator. In the case of Mondogoal you are given £100m to spend on 11 players. That equates to roughly £9.1m per selection. It becomes a trade-off whereby you include more expensive options at the expense of cheaper purchases. With midfielders and forwards having greater scope for big scores under Mondogoal’s scoring system you’re more likely to see a bigger proportion of your budget being utilised on these players. Each playing position is discussed in more detail in our selecting goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards sections.

Determining which players will be the designated set-piece takers is an essential component of the fantasy manager’s armoury. In addition to points for goals from penalties and free-kicks and points for assists Mondogoal also awards points for shots on target. Familiarising yourself with these can be time consuming but we’ve written a piece on their importance called Set-piece specialists - what you need to know and also provide you with some invaluable guides that list players who have been assigned these duties for both the English Premier League and the MLS. If you can keep up to date with these you might just weed out a few extra points that will keep you one step ahead of your competition.