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
Last time this was done????
Cookie moved too Monaco
Potty
And built the cellar…..be afraid
Guys
all this talk of de gea being goalie bcs man u have good fixtures, but have we thought whos going to play infront of him?
vidic, rio and most likely evra gone!
jones and smalling are poor and as the world cup showed leave A LOT to be desired.
Shaw is a promising talent but he will have no understanding with his fellow defenders, that takes time.
rafael is just a poor player in my eyes, over rated imo
just a thought..
Hi All
My latest idea is this.
A prize for every FPL month.
So you in?
Classic League = 31944-10970
Its Named…….
10 Months 10 Prizes
See you there
Potty
Hell yeah!!
Good on ya potty!
In partner . .
Oooooh ! GP + Potty are an item. 😮
Best watch out Init, they are out to take our doubles title. :shake:
Well they’ve got half a chance. GP’s a good player 😉
Init,
I felt proud there for a second (then I realised it was a dig at Potty)
Ouch . .
It was both 😉
Init,
Haha. On the QPR thing, I could try to scribble some stuff down based on my sketchy recollection of last year and my limited research so far this pre-season but I would need to get this to you for you to check over – unsure of the standard required and I wouldn’t like to commit and let you down. When is the deadline?
About an hour?
Joking obviously, up to you mate, we will be doing them next week at some point so if you fancy it great, if not no probs. Did offer it to Drexl to be fair as he’s a QPR fan but I’ve not heard back from him.
Init
I did think of Drexl too. Oh well. Started a few paragraphs here – we’ll see what develops.
Cool keep me in the loop. I’ll e-mail you soon mate. With a whip
Hi Guys
Sorry muist have missed your call to arms. Happy to do something but if you have already started GP equally happy to pass the baton.
Drexl (back from the dead)
Drexl I e-mailed you this morning mate. I’ll let you 2 fight it out!
elle & THE REST OF THE WORLD BEHOLD !!!
‘ Potty as a Jock FC ‘ . . .
. . .is an actual living thing now.
Elle – what do we have to do to register so that we can sweep all before us ??
GP, its all sorted for you, Potty e-mailed me earlier. For all the rest of you, get finding partners for the FF247 Doubles League, then e-mail me with your team name + the 2 names of the double act (name you use on here please), e-mail address is :- elleffcee@gmail.com
Cheers.
I’m in Potty!
P.S. was any prize money awarded for that WC sweepstake?
Sure was Jamesimmo
£80 for Mutley winging onto him
Potty
Seriously?
Wow, didn’t realize that was up for grabs!!!!!!
Ahh right ok, thought there may have been mini-cash for winning groups etc, but regardless that’s very generous. Good on ya.
i’m in potty great to have FPL back
Sweetheart Sarah
Just plugged you on Twitter
Now go on and retain your Title
Potty
I’ll do my best Potty
Such pressure, might have to bring my 4 leaf clover back .
Potster, can we enter our doubles teams in your leagues ?
Elleffcee
I think its only fair if I say NO
You scheming Scouser!
Potty
Potty, no probs mate, i was hoping to win more trophies for Init. :dance:
Elle he’s running scared of the mighty Aditupem already. Doesn’t bode well for Jock FC.
Remember this you 2 bugger’s.
You shafted me in the Ultimate!
Now its payback!
Our aim….me and Gp is….
Too stuff you.
Potty
Ha ! Ha ! I like it Potty, stuff you + chicken, very droll. :big-lol:
Quick question for you all.
Suarez was banned from all “football related activity” hence Barcelona could not do the usual publicity.
Surely the transfer in itself and signing a contract was “football related activity” or is it just me?
Barca are involved Mutts, rules thrown out the window
FIFA have stated that the ban would not prevent him from changing clubs.
That’s at least what I read on twitter rigght after the ban was announced. Think they also modified the ban a little, so he’s allowed to train with his teammates.
they basicaly gave him a day off the ban to sign the contract
In all honesty Muts, I don’t give a shit. Seen much worse shit happen this Worldcup. Doublelegbreakers. Nobody speaks of that. Pure BS. Suarez deserves his ban and he deserves a rotten club like Barca at the moment. They are pure shite. Completely destroying what Cruyff, van Gaal, Rijkaard and Pep buildup. But whatever.
FALL DOWN BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :finger: On that note, I’m having a good day. How are you guys?
RIP all those who died in the airplane crash today. 298 people of which at least 154 Dutchies (not that Nationality matters, just feels it is closer to you, if you know what I mean).
Also, Israel took this opportunity to invades Gaza. Another 240 people killed (and counting).
That’s almost 600 victims of war. Planecrash was caused by an attack by either the Ukrainians or Russian separatists. Either way, was an accident with innocent victims. A shite world it is.
Too damn true Raz, too true. RIP.
Raz,
I agree. May they rest in peace and may the rest of us one day live in peace.
Yeah. Wasn’t sure about posting anything about this on the site. But it’s important to me. Now my avatar kind of sucks, the Japanese mma fighter doing a post victory troll face.
In all other cases my avatar rocks.
+1 Raz, terrible news, thoughts with all those poor families mate.