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.
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@Rooneys_corner: “@SkySportsNews: Crystal Palace agree double deal for Tottenham’s Gylfi Sigurdsson and Cardiff’s Fraizer Campbell” great deals
Hi Cookster. Sigurdsson is a very interesting signing. Pulis is doing a great job there. Might have to rethink my Puncheon pick as Gylfi can be FF gold.
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Just remember that Sigurdsson hasn’t played regular football since he played at Swansea, so he could be a little rusty at first. You don’t think he and Punch could end up fighting over gametime?
He still got decent game time at Spurs. It’s probably better that he hasn’t been playing 50 games a season anyway.
I think siggy could be playing in an advanced role behind the striker for palace.
Nah. I’d fancy both to be regular starters.
Cookie, can i pay with 4 hubcaps ?
@physioroom: #AFC winger Theo Walcott returns to training for the first time since his season ending ACL injury
Hmmm, think they will bring him very slowly. Sub at most. Sighs.
If they didn’t have Sanchez I know Wally would always get playtime, now it’s more of a doubt.
I believe Walcott will always start when fully fit. When that happens Sanchez would probably move over to the left or perhaps through the middle if Giroud is out of form.
However if Walcott ever gets tired or loses form then yes he would certainly be easier to bench.
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I totally agree with this statement, but raz is right for the time being.
Wenger is very careful with bringing players back from injury, and with this one been such a bad one, and a very important muscle in his knee, for quite a while I wouldn’t expect him to start. When he’s 100% fit it’s a different story.
Wenger doesn’t like him as a central striker though. Right winger?
Sanchez or Walcott?
I’d expect Walcott to start on the right but I don’t think it matters where Sanchez starts – his versatility is why he’ll be so good for arsanal especially with all the injurys they usually get.
He can play in midfeild, as a winger, a no.10 or an out and out striker – problem is if HE gets injured.
Wally, I think Wally will be on the right, Sanchez left and Giroud is still the main striker?
Southamptons Pelle has just scored 2 goals.
Against a very weak side that doesn’t even have their own emblem. 😛
Plus, don’t make your rivals too smart mate. 😉
Wanted to check my old account to see in which leagues I played last season. Problem is that I can’t delete it so I asked FPL to delete it for me. Or can I delete it? Anyway, it was automatically in the old competitions again, and I don’t want it to be. Bleeergh. HELP!!!!!!!!!??????????????
Already mailed FPL about this issue but if I can delete it on my own that would be cool. 😉
Raz, go on to the tab ‘leagues’, then it shows you all the leagues your in, toward the right is a red X, i think if you click on that it deletes that league.
Cool, tnx. Want to play fair. 😛
Just go to the leagues tab, and delete yourself from the leagues you don’t want to be in.
Tnx mate, still prefer them to just delete that mail adress. Now it’s activated I’m gonna touch ………………………….. and you don’t want me touching that………………………I CAN”T F-ING STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Raz – Scroll down on your team page to just under where it says your nationality. You’ll see ‘user profile’ in bold letters. Click that and it’ll ask you to log in again and from there go to ‘Update your account’. On the right hand side of that screen there’s an option to delete the account completely.
Awesome. Yeah, you deleted your account last year. I forgot. You’re brilliant. 😛
DONE! YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tnx mate.
No problem.
Bench I’m in!
Really excited for next season – cant wait for September!
Destiny and drive club come out then too so that should be good!! Oh and school…