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
Init,
This article is woefully inadequate, barely legible, frankly a ‘slap-dash’ effort and gives us no help whatsoever. A very poor effort and if this is what we can expect from now on them I would be very disappointed. Must do a lot better*
* Joking clearly but I don’t want you getting swept away with the wave of gushing emotion. A (begrudging) well done.
Hii guys!
Can someone explain Banterbury h2hs in short? How many will be part of one h2h league and who will proceed further?
Is Potty’s cup and Banterbury different?
Zizou each league has 20 teams and it’s for the full season with promotion and relegation for the top 3 I think.
‘Pottys Cup’ is the Banterbury Cup just that Potty will be doing the draw for it live on the boards on a Thursday evening I believe. It’s a separate comp to the above leagues but draws from the same pool of players. Like the FA Cup basically.
I think there’s then the Shield as well! Which is basically the Champions League version and you have to be in the top 4 of one of the top 4 leagues at a certain date in order to qualify. It’s around Xmas the cut off.
I’m sure Bench will correct any of this if I’m wrong.
Only 1st place in each qualifier goes on to the Banterbury proper for next season as far as i know.
init,
Not biting ^^ ?
No! You could have left the last paragraph off and I’d still know you were joking :p
Init
But I wasn’t joking up to that point ;-PPP
You pleased to have the quills back out for the season?
It’s a fair point GP and I totally agree. Congrats on your appointment by the way. Can you submit the next fixtures one by 5pm next Wednesday please 😉
Init,
Gulp. (*delete previous comments button anywhere*)
Thanx for your input. Will try to re-read the rules and understand
I tried to get a spot and am given a spot in Group D of Qualifications. Looking forward to it.
Right. What do we think of draft #1?
Begovic
Upson-C.Davies-Terry
Puncheon-Ramsey-Fabregas-Sidwell
Dzeko-van Persie-Sturridge
Gilks-B.Davies-Dummett.
Cheers.
*El Ahmadi is the missing sub.
Maybe get Remy/Pelle in for Dzeko and upgrade Fab to hazard. I would prefer Cahill to Terry tbh. Dummet and Gilks won’t play
Looks decent NIN. See you’ve gone heavy up front; I’m looking at 5 big hitters in midfield at the moment myself, but that’s obviously personal preference. Yours is a lot more balanced than mine at the moment!
Good morning, further to my post yesterday about the FF247 Doubles league, my e-mail address is elleffcee@gmail.com and not Elleffcee@gmail.com. The 1st e is lower case and not a capital as i posted, cheers.
Morning elle, care to give me a link to your post and save me trawling? 😛
https://fantasyfootball247.co.uk/fantasy-fpl-201415-transfer-round-part-3/comment-page-4/#comments
Comment 43
:thumbup:
Anyone got any particular strategy in mind this season? I’m thinking of choosing a squad geared toward the first 3 weeks alone with a view to then assessing the trends and the new players and wild carding at that point.
That’s a wise strategy as it allows you to hop on all the emerging bandwagons early on, without having to take big hits, plus home in on having a quality concentrated start to the season. I wish I’d done so last time around.
That’s you shafted then.
Potty
That’s helpful Potty, care to elaborate?!
OK.
The influx of Foreign Player’s and many more will follow in this current transfer window means this Season many Premier Teams from the off will not have a settled side at a guess til mid September.
Add to this equation that those Players who were on World Cup duty do not return to pre-season training at many clubs for a further 7 days they too will be a risk for a starting berth on kick-off day.
I suggest and will be selecting my starting 11 from those players who had this Summer off.
Its the logical thing to do for now.
Potty
It’s sound logic to a point but does diminish your pool of players somewhat! I’ll be interested to see your first squad on this basis. I assume you are free to pick England players though as they had the summer off I believe.
Init,
i’m for an early WC I think. Unless I’m leading the overall leadrerboard on week 1.
Hey Gp
Won’t the early Double Gameweek have a bearing on one’s early tactic’s?
Potty
Potty,
I’m still messing about just now. Not sure what I’ll do mate.
I do want a squad that can accommodate mutliple formations, week to week. That’s my one key aim for the start.
Solid plan init, may well follow suit. Only ends up being a bonus if our initial squads hit the ground running and we don’t even need to WC early on too
Yep plan to use it and if I don’t need it then great. I’d definitely have been better off overall last season had I done so but instead it took me weeks to get Ramsey, Yaya etc fitted in and subsequently missed out on a lot of their early points. I left the WC for DGW’s as that had worked perfectly the season previous but last year it just meant I had 11 DGW’ers the same as everyone else but perhaps for -8 less.
I started last season off with 5 strong defenders and it served me well.. then WC’d to get rid of RVP when he was injured.. Don’t know if the defender-strategy will be so successful again
Hi Mate thought you would be the person to ask how do I attached my Avatar did create one last season but not come up on this site thanks
Hi Silverback, follow the link that’s on this page – https://fantasyfootball247.co.uk/fantasy-football-help/
It may work from this as well I’m not sure –
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Interesting strategy Innit.I was thinking along similiar lines but giving it till about week 6.Dont trust new foreign imports untill ive had a look at how they settle in.Especially after believing the hype about soldado last season !!
I’m probably going to continue how I finished last season and take the weekly minus 4 hit route rather than taking the early WC. Would like to start a whole lot better than last season as well but time will tell.
Pottys in this Nuthouse.
Due to a relationship break-up in the Summer maybe YOU could help me?
To hire,a very amusing guy,never sleeps,a tactical genius of the highest order,likes brass rubbing and people watching,but is an Icon in the Fantasy Football world.
So if you wish to be my new Partner?
E-mail me at prctrdvd@gmail.com and Together we can go forth and Win……
elleffcee’s “Doubles” League.
Awaiting replys now x
Potty
Potty,
I’m free . . .
Check mail.
Gp
I will check your credentials first.
Potty
Potty,
I won’t be offended if you get a better offer. I promise we’ll still be pals.
Gp
I have now booked us a room in Gretna Green.
I wish to be married in the same venue as Gary McAllister was.
Check your e-mail
Potty
Potty,
I’m no Gary Mac I’m afraid – I’m better at penalties . . .
Shadow not do the business for you at the WC Potty?
Tight Pants Clyne
He bloody Vanished
I think he is related to David Blaine? LoL
Potty