Here’s a few hints for the newbies that may help:
Try to pick players that play week-in week-out. Joe Cole may be a top player (when the winds not blowing hard) but will he get rotated?
Try to pick players from defence and midfield that get forward a bit.
Look for players that get “assists” as thats worth 3 points
Penalty takers and free kick specialists always bag a few goals each season
Bear in mind you only get 1 free transfer a week – after that it costs 4 points per transfer so you don’t want to make two many. Picking subs that play regularly means you can sub them in instead saving uncessary transfers.
Man of the Match gets points each week so “star” players in a team will bag extra points regularly.
Try to do transfers early in the week – its a gamble (Injury/illness etc), but player values increase as more people pick a player so you can build extra value by getting in first which is useful later on transfers.