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
Bardsley or Trippier?
Both 5m
Bards is in an established defence known for it solidity. Also good going forward
Tripp is in a newly promoted team but is brilliant going forward
I’m leaning towards bards but i like tripp, could be this years coleman?
Whats Burnley like as a team?
I might grab Trippier in gameweek 4 Burnsy. You have to remember that CS will be hard to come by for Burnley at any time, let alone when they face Chelsea and Man United in the first 3 weeks, but either way I’d take him over Bardsley.
Good shout, I can always look at Lescott and Ward as other options.
Burnsy I fancy having both. Burnley look ok ish from GW4 on but at least 2 of the first 3 are tough. I’ll probably take Bard to start and then see how Tripp is looking and wrangle him on my GW4 WC. We have articles on the newly promoted sides next week.
Thanks for the advice as well as all the articles, this place is a gold mine of information.
It will be when GP pulls his finger out 😉
Init,
I see Drexl has appeared – hand over the batton or keep typing??
Up to you 2 now I just pull the pin and walk away! :whacky:
Have a natter and see what suits?
Init/Drexl
I’m gonna email some notes I started on to Init but I think the man who follows the team should hold the biggest sway (unless he can’t be arsed!)
Init – email address please?
GP as you have a start fill your boots….first visit back to the site today (and timely!) but you’ve prob done a bit of digging.
As a caveat listening to ‘H’ on the radio earlier he says the entire squad at Loftus, as we speak, consists of 14 players, so bank on changes and additions aplenty.
Caulker is close, and if he comes I will have him over Ferdinand. All day.
Austin is a great 3rd striker, will score, is on pens and will start every week unless theres a marquee signing.
That’ll prob do for me off the bat and ont detract from a team summary GP
Rblanchett@hotmail.com if you need my mail
Totally off Topic I have too mention this.
During my World Cup Fun on FF247,away from here I entered Football Fanager.
It was a League I delved into and run by WC Walt and called The Moshpit League,you will see him soon in my FPL League’s.
Anyway I finished 2nd in Walt’s League and only 4pts behind him.
Well what’s happened today has blown me away.
Football Fanager e-mailed me saying Walt had given me the cash winnings due to the Banter I gave his League and I’ve won £250.
So for me I never win sod all.
Which means Walt is a hero in my World.
Potty
That’s great news Potty, well done!
Congrats Potster, well done. I’ve asked you a question on post 88.2.
Potty
About bloody time you got something back. A lovely touch by Walt so well done him. But he obviously sees what the rest of us see, you are a top bloke to have about the place.
Noone deserves it more and I’m sure we will all agree on that.
Congratulations. Invest it wisely . . .
fair play potty you deserve it mate
Congrats mate.
If Walt is your hero I think 99 percent of the users here consider you theirs. And rightfully so. Doing great stuff for the community.
+1
good stuff potty
Nice one Potty
can easily understand why he did so!
congrats
cookie i will be up for that , will mail you in morning
Just saw van Gaals first press conference. This is going to be a good year. I enjoy his pressers more than most EPL matches. HAHA. Hilarious. This one wasn’t that good by the way, but still funny. HAHA.
Does Zamora cost 4.5m for a reason i.e. will he ever start in BPL matches?
To all in Elleffcee’s double’s League…
Let’s talk…..
The coming of Potty and The Gallant Pioneer has been emotional.
For a Sweaty Sock and a Cromwell to Marry was a tough call.
But what swayed it for me was…..
Craig dropped his Trouser’s to unviel Donald on his Y-Fronts!
So how could I say no?
World Domination now.
Potty
Potty
I have that effect on most I encounter.
Where are we with the team?
Bonetti in goal
Bobby McDonald at left back
Sheridan midfield
And up front
The genius Ally Mcoist
Let’s roll Gp
Potty