Fantasy FPL Fixtures – the first 6 weeks
Welcome back! The good people at FPL towers teased us a little yesterday by releasing a player list and they did not disappoint by then launching the game we love in it’s entirety a few hours later. And so we have about a month to pick, re-pick, swear, curse and laugh at our at our teams until the deadline. Having seen many a gallant attempt at a feasible team yesterday we felt that the main thing missing, and the one thing that would be of the most immediate help to managers, was a quick fixtures overview for the first few weeks. As ever we are happy to oblige and so here is how the land lies for the initial 6 GW’s and our take on who has a favorable start and who may find life rough to begin with…
Let’s begin with the tracker itself…
We have colour coded the fixtures in a simple fashion to allow you to judge your transfer and team selection plans accordingly:
[highlight_green]Green[/highlight_green] – We deem these to be winnable fixtures for the given team and should, in theory at least (!), harvest good fantasy points for you in the opening games. Aim to have a good nucleus of these players in your initial squad.
[highlight_yellow]Yellow[/highlight_yellow] – These are the fixtures that could go either way and do not stand out as being either particularly good or poor. If you have a player from a team in this category then do not be afraid to play them but take a considered view that it may not be an explosive week for them.
[highlight_red]Red[/highlight_red]- These are the teams that we consider to have a difficult fixture and as such may be best avoided from a fantasy perspective. Aim to minimise any players that have a run of reds in the opening games.
FAVOURABLE
Chelsea
Any established Premier League team that starts the campaign against two newly promoted teams has to be deemed to have a good chance of getting off the mark well but given Chelsea’s pedigree allied to some fantastic summer business with the purchases of Costa, Fabregras and Filipe we feel that Chelsea investment will be near vital given their opening fixtures. They face a couple of toughies in GW’s 3 and 5 with trips to Everton and City but the other four are definitely winnable as they face Burnley, Leicester, Swansea and Villa.
Manchester United
David Moyes had a right moan about United’s opening fixtures last season. We don’t expect you will be hearing such nonsense from Van Gaal this time around though for two reasons – he’s too smart to give the players any excuses and quite frankly their start is glorious! They begin with Swansea at home and then travel to Sunderland and that’s about as tough as it gets in the first six as they then have all three newly promoted sides back to back and end the sequence with a home game against West Ham. If LVG had hand picked his start he couldn’t have done it any better himself.
UNFAVOURABLE
Aston Villa
To be fair Villa’s first three games aren’t all too bad facing Stoke, Newcastle and Hull and it would be hard to pick a winner from all of those but it is GW’s 4 to 6 that worry us. Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea on the bounce smacks of zero points in that period.
Leicester
New boys Leicester are actually the bookies favourites to go straight back down and their opening schedule will do nothing to help them in that respect. Everton, Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd in the first six will probably see them languishing at the foot of the table come the end of August we feel.
There’s plenty to ponder given the fixtures so be sure to post your teams and your comments below as ever as we build toward the first game.
Thanks for reading Fantasy FPL Fixtures – the first 6 weeks – This article was written by Inittowinit
Come on FPL hurry with Costa. I can’t decide on anything till he’s added.
hey guys,
do you think a midfield of Mata / Cesc / De Jong / Barkley (Albrighton) is a bit risky?
Nope. I think Barkley will be this years big surprise.
Howdy photek. I’d be a tad wary of Barkley as Everton have some iffy fixtures to start off the season. Other than that it looks good to me. Puncheon/Snodgrass are options instead of Barkley. Both are cheaper too.
cheers guys, i’m not sold on Barkley yet, i think this De Jong fella could go well for Newcastle also Cabella sounds like a good buy for them (cabaye replacement) i’m waiting to see what price he’ll come in at.
Hows your team looking NiN? shaping up nicely?
I think you could be right about De Jong, mate. He is a good player. As for my lot, current draft is the one i’m happiest with so far but there’s quite a few signings to be made yet and the likes of Costa aren’t available yet so we’re kind of limited just now. It looks like this…
De Gea
Upson-Terry-Chester
Puncheon-Ramsey-Sidwell-Fabregas
Sturridge-Dzeko-van Persie
Gilks-El Ahmadi-B.Davies-Dummett
strong front 3 if dzeko gets gametime and de gea seems a popular choice with their fixtures. I’m not to keen on Terry Sidwell or Punch in there & i dunno how much chester will play but like you say, plenty of time left to tinker.
my draft atm:
de gea
azil vlaar monreal
cesc mata barkley de jong
rvp giroud lambert
krul – albrighton chambers dummet
still, i’m sure that will change another 24 times
Hmm. Interesting. The ones i had doubts about were Upson and El Ahmadi, just cant afford anyone better.
I don’t see Lambert starting too many games at all, more likely to be backup i reckon. Same goes for Monreal, Gibbs is first choice left back as far as i know, or is he injured again? Ha.
There’s many’s a tinker to be done yet, that’s for sure! Haha.
Hi guys please check your e mail inbox, as all codes have now been send out including Premier.
Bench on the extreme off-chance that enough don’t sign up for League 2 and I get bumped up will it be too late if I have already joined Qualification A? Or can you remove me from that after I’ve already joined? Holding off joining until this is answered
yes i can bump you up , and yes i can remove you from Qualification
Hi Bench
Can I join and if so how do I do it?
yes can please send me a email, with your name , FPL team name, and also your ff247 username to banterburyleagues@gmail.com , i will assign you a qualification league, and e-mail a code later for your league
Plz RMT …
De Gea
Vlaar / Cahill / Cameron / O’Shea
Miralles / Shurrle / Henderson
RVP / Sturridge / Aguero
Subs. Gk Krul / Bruce / Lucas / Albrighton
Main concern is mids…
Will Shurrle get decent playing time…..Wots his best position ..?
BigP i think you’ve gone abit top heavy leaving your mids abit light.
henderson doesn’t do a lot fantasy wise, shurrle doesn’t start enough and with cesc added to a busy midfield may find gametime harder to get.
Hi Popz. Hmm, there’s a few picks there that would worry me a bit..
Vlaar – Villa defence = Ouch!
Mirallas – Dodgy fixtures
Schurrle – Rotation risk
Hendo – Rotation risk
Aguero – Cant crack a fart without pulling his hammy!
Lucas – FF kipper.
NIN got your e-mail. The FF247 league code is 14923-10423. The one on the tab above is still last seasons. Will alter it later. Let me know if this one works?
Just seen your reply there. Yep. That worked straight away. Thanks mate. I presume the Manager of The Month code is changed also?
Yep no idea what that is though!
We set the old one so that it detects potential quitters and blocks them to save them the hassle later 😉
Ha! No hassle. I’ll leave that one alone so, cant be winning them all ya know? Have to leave a few leagues for the rest to have a crack at.
Any tips mate? Hahahaha.
can anyone join the FF247 league innit?
No. You have to be special. Like me.
Yup.
Of course they can Photek
init I was already automatically entered into the FF247 league, I assumed it just carried over from last year but now I’ve seen this I’m not sure.. Should I join with the code you’ve just posted here or if I am already in am I good to go (ie. is that the right one??).
Me too. I tried the code init posted & it said ‘you are already in this league’. I would say you are fine.
Hi Calvin. If you were in the league last season then there’s no worries, no need to reg again.
:thumbup: you pair
Kieran trippier – rb for Burnley. 14 assists 2 goals 1 yc. 5 mln
Risky or worth it?
Risky but they’re interesting stats all the same. I’ll have to look into that one. Ta.