Planning Ahead – DGW’s, Blanks etc… – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16
“When are the double game-weeks?”
“Who misses GW27?”
“Why is everybody talking about GW30 in terms of some sort of FPL apocalypse?!”
“When is the best time to use my chips?”
“Are there any other ‘GW30’ type surprises on the way?”
These are just some of the more common questions we’ve been asked recently and so we wanted to clear it all up and make it as as easy to understand as possible. It’s dead simple really. When you know the answer. That largely depends on the question though. In this case we know the questions and we know part of the answers. The rest of it is guesswork right now but here’s what we know, what we don’t know and what we will know soon enough.
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“When are the double game-weeks?”
The double game-weeks will be in GW’s 34 & 37. We know this because of the scheduling of other competitions such as the Champions League and the Europa League. You cannot, by UEFA law, have an FPL game on the same midweek as one of their comps, which rules out a good few weeks and pretty much leaves the aforementioned weeks as our only options.
Let’s take the remaining weeks one by one to try and make this as simple as possible…
GW27
The following teams miss this week due to the League Cup Final-
Everton
Liverpool
Man City
Newcastle
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GW28
All teams play
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GW29
All teams play
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GW30
The Apocalypse! All managers panic!
This is the one which could get messy! Who plays in this one depends on which teams progress to the FA Cup 6th round.
As of now only two games are certain to go ahead in GW30 and those are –
Leicester v Newcastle
Stoke v Southampton
The rest depends upon the following teams winning or losing their FA Cup 5th round ties which are –
Shrewsbury vs Man United
Chelsea vs Man City
Reading vs West Brom
Watford vs Leeds
Blackburn vs West Ham
Spurs vs Crystal Palace
Arsenal vs Hull
Bournemouth vs Everton
The rest of the GW30 schedule looks like this as we stand now but could be decimated depending on the results of the FA Cup games. Every game below for GW30 is affected by the results of the games above.
Arsenal vs West Brom – off if either win
Man Utd vs Crystal Palace – off if either win
West Ham vs Watford – off if either win
Aston Villa vs Spurs – off if Spurs win
Liverpool vs Chelsea – off if Chelsea win
Sunderland vs Everton – off if Everton win
Norwich vs Man City – off if Man City win
Bournemouth vs Swansea – off if Bournemouth win
Tick them off as you go next weekend! For info this particular FA Cup round occurs this weekend (ie between GW26 & 27). You will need to plan your GW27 / 28 / 29 transfers accordingly so as to have as many GW30 players as is possible, which still may be less than than preferable, but panic not as many will be in the same boat. And rest assured even more that many won’t be aware of the perils ahead!
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GW31
All teams play
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GW32
All teams play
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GW33
All teams play
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GW34
All teams play and a potential DGW
This is the first of the windows for DGW’s. We don’t know who will feature but given the above information it is highly likely that at the very least Man City will need to get their first DGW out of the way on this week as it’s highly likely that they will have another in GW37.
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GW35
This FPL week clashes with the FA Cup semi-finals and so any teams lucky enough to have progressed that far will miss out this week, and so will their opponents. They will therefore almost certainly fulfil their missed GW35 fixture(s) in GW37. You need to take this weeks blanks into consideration when planning any DGW assault in GW34.
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GW36
All teams play
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GW37
The second potential bumper DGW
This may be a bumper one depending on how many make it through FA Cup R5 and subsequently R6. Certainly we will see the semi-finalists feature twice in this one but also the other teams that have been unable to reschedule previously in GW34.
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GW38
All teams play. Lots of managers have heart attacks!
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“When is the best time to use my remaining chips?”
If you have been prudent enough to save your second wildcard and also the bench boost and the triple captain chips then well done and you may reap the benefits very soon, all being well! The perceived wisdom here is that you will be best served by playing your WC the week before any DGW and then activating your bench boost on the week of it itself to hopefully maximise a full squad of DGW’ers. Which of the DGW’s you do this in will depend largely upon the pool of players available. If GW34 is looking light (4-6 DGW teams or less) then you may be best waiting for GW37. One of them will be busy anyway given how it’s looking so far. Pick the busiest one for this strategy as you need to remember that you will have that squad the week after it has finished too! If it happens to be GW37 then that may be less pertinent given that there is only one week left anyway but if it’s GW34 then it may need more thought and consideration as to what lies beyond.
As for the Triple Captain one then simply use this in the other DGW that you don’t use the Bench Boost for. Remember you can only use one chip per week and the wildcard itself is classed as a chip for this purpose.
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Guys what are the chances of steven taylor and clichy keeping their places for newcastle and man city respectively?
Landed a nice little earner on FanTeam tonight
If it was clearer, I could have been reading it, Potty. 😉 On a more serious note, hope you are doing as good as you currently can under these circumstances. Have to sleep but really take care mate. Goodnight.
Mine’s a double mate, Middleton please :hippo:
Well done you guys playing UCL. Looks like some fair scores out there.
I have had Navas and Kums so far and regret not getting Draxler but kudos Init et al who had him.
I’m on Ronaldo as captain as well and I’m not sure whether sticking may prove a shrewd move. There may not be much more out there this gameweek.
I agree. I might keep it on Kums (14pts) though I might be tempted to put it on one of MSN depending on what I think of Arsenal’s form after the weekend. Maybe also Griezmann though he’s hot and cold in the CL.
Hi sanchez,
Kums at 14 points seems fair actually.
Griezmann I have as well and he would be my only consideration if I were to change.
I may stick though.
Morning GP,
Suarez 😉
Non-owner Mr NiN :sad-face:
Is that who you are changing to?
He’s just about my only option. Could go with Costa but i might be better off just leaving it on Ronaldo than changing it to him. Suarez could well be worth it given his stellar form. I’d actually be surprised if he scored less than 6 points.
I do have Messi but I fancy Arsenal will keep that match as tight as they can for as long as they can.
Five minutes then?
If they’re lucky!
Time to think about it yet
Heh heh, five minutes is good going against this lot! I dread to think what they’d do to United :shiftyeyes:
Morning all just read the Planning ahead article again great piece of info Init it will be chips away & maybe some green arrows. Appreciate all the effort I just feel sorry for anyone who’s colour blind 😉
There’s no such thing as green arrows anymore. Just red and redder 😉
im Red-Green Color Blind, but still i think some of my arrows is green :what:
Morning NIN & GP how are we both doing hate these lg gaps , I have been looking at all the fixture to who has the best run in I would say its between Lei & Ars but there are a few others that have good games , left my info at home I thk Watford are one.
Although we will have to break up our teams for the DGWs are you going to try and keep any Lei players in or go all out for the 15 Players. I suppose if its GW 37 it wont matter.
Hi Silvers,
I actually enjoy a little break from FPL. Certainly the way I’m performing this season I do 😉 There is plenty of other football on so I’m focussing on that.
Leicester have a hand-picked run-in and I hope they win it. Fantasy-wise I have Mahrez and I’ve just bought Morgan for Delaney. Vardy I’ll think about.
I haven’t looked right until the end of the season and prefer to look 4-6 weeks at a time.
I haven’t considered how I will approach the DGWs. As much exposure as I can including a point hit if necessary but hopefully building up to it gradually.
GP Yes my performance this yr has also been a disaster 220k I would like to break into 100k but the way I’m shaping up that might be a tall order reading above I assume you have used your WC.
Yeah it’s gone Silvers.
I would take your 220K right now mate.
Cheers Init. Nice one to get us started on the road ahead. So, if I see this correctly two Out of these 4 are also guarenteed for gw 30, yes?
Liverpool vs Chelsea – off if Chelsea win
Sunderland vs Everton – off if Everton win
Norwich vs Man City – off if Man City win
Bournemouth vs Swansea – off if Bournemouth win
Yes mate, that’s well deduced. Two of those four will happen. I’ll be doing some work on it after the games and I’ll either post it in here or just do a quick new article if it warrants it.