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
RMT please.
Mannone Krul
Chammbers Evra Flanagan Monreal Bruce
Fabregas Tiote henderson Hazard Ramsey
Long Strurridge Giroud
Planning to change Giroud for Costa.Do you know how much he would be?
Not sure about Hazard and Cesc mate, that’s a lot of money. Also consider Fabregas could be playing alongside Matic and not behind the striker. Tiote is a yellow card magnet and gets very few points. Monreal, Chambers, Bruce potentially doubts to start; Evra off to Europe. Henderson also not great- better cheap options on free kick/corner duties would be a good place to look- someone like Snodmore is where I’d be looking. Hope this helps!
Dermpct,
My immediate thought is there are a number of “iffys” in there….Evra likely to move, but even if he doesn’t he is in competition with the expensive new signing, Shaw. Tiote never seems to do much fantasy wise, except the once a season 30 yarder. Monreal is in competition with Gibbs for the left back role. Flanagan will have Enrique as competition. And Bruce I would suggest is uncertain to be a regular starter.
You forgot about Chambers, him and Clyne have been rotated a lot past season. Though Chambers is the future Clyne wasn’t all that bad.
Great to see the activity on the site ramping up, and thanks for some great articles in the past few days guys! Here’s a first effort, feel free to tear it up!
—-| De Gea |—-
Clyne Lescott Cameron Debuchy
Hazard Tadic Özil
Giroud Negredo Rooney
Subs: Begovic, Ward, Sidwell, Marney(?!)
I’ve tried to get cheap starting defenders with a decent opening run – the big names are way to expensive at this point until a decent team value is built up. Coleman and Shaw (both nailed on last time) are the price of two solid mids!! I like Özil as a differential, and potentially Negredo. If the latter doesn’t seem nailed on, I’ll go for Bony perhaps. Could also do Hazard to Mata and Rooney to Sturridge but I like Chelsea/ManU’s opening fixtures may more than I do Liverpool’s.
You sure about Negredo?
Is Cameron nailed on with Barnsley signing?
Barnsley, Damn auto correct
Oh fuck it you know who I mean
Login, click on View Gameweek history and add that adress. Same as last season and the one before that. At the moment you’ll just be sharing the points of past seasons though.
Ooops, posted at wrong spot. FFS.
You have spent too much money on GKs. Both ManUtd and Stoke have decent fixtures initially and one keeper would just sit on your bench and waste both money and points.
Lescott? Wont pay 5M for a WB defender, EVER.
Thanks B- good call on the keepers. Might go for 4.5m playing keeper then as a backup. WB also have decent(ish) fixtures I feel but I suppose they do like to leak goals rather. He’s a goal threat though from set pieces?
Hmmm. It seems everybody forgot to link their team. Old link is deleted. UPDATE BITCHESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mine isn’t even worth to share yet I’m sharing. :finger:
On that note, it’s sort of cool I’m user 8912. Top 10k Finish before it all started. 😛
Where does it tell you?
@ kopthis
Login on FPL, click on View Gameweek history and add that adress. Same as last season and the one before that. At the moment you’ll just be sharing the points of past seasons though.
Good point that Raz, just done mine, I’m 972 :p
kopthis, click on the Help tab at the top of this site it explains it there. Basically click on the link and have the web address copied from your FPL page after you’ve clicked on ‘View Gameweek History’. It should currently be displaying your previous season rankings.
That’s what I just said. Aha. 972? You sure that’s a positive thing? 😛
Sick rankings by the way. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s not just about luck when I look at your scores.
Lol thanks Raz
Here I was so happy I almost finished top 50k in my first season. Sort of messed that one up by ummmm taking a 20 points hit in the last gameweek. Cries.
Last season I added up 100k to that. Really messed up. Which should’ve been a much better season since I found out about this site last season. Maybe too much information and my harddrive goas overkill? 😛
Is Matic nailed on, and is he worth it.
Not worth it. But yes, should be nailed.
He is nailed on but he won’t get many points as his role would be to sit in front of the back four.
Anyone RMT !
De Gea
Terry – Dunne – Jones
Tadic – Silva – Ramsey – Eriksen
Dzeko – Giroud – Rooney
Bench : Gilks,Bentaleb,Bruce,Mariappa
Tadic is costly and unproven so far. Not convinced myself to splash so much money on him.
Same issue with Silva, he is not a solid points scorer. Id recommend you get in some Chelsea coverage in the attack in form of Hazard or Fabregas by downgrading both Tadic and Silva.
I’d have to disagree about Silva not being a solid points scorer!
Making the first draft of FPL was really difficult and so far Im only able to come up with this.
Boruc
Debuchy – Huth – Chester – Cahill
Arnautovic – Hazard – Sanchez
RVP – Jelly – Wickham
Bench: Schmeicel – (Fillers)
4.5M itb
So far only know about the SOTON and Leicester rotation, can anyone suggest a good rotation with Chester so i can bring a defender in the 5th place as a rotation to Chester?
Also, what is the Bruce love going around? Is ChestNut no more our favourite?
Also:
Sanchez vs Ramsey?
Hazard vs Fabregas?
I’m gonna copy paste your team. Thanks.
I didn’t even know there was a paste option on the Transfers page! 😉
Be my guest. This is a shitty team.
Fabregas will have a deeper role. Both Hazard and Sanchez are really, really expensive. Don’t like your team in all honesty. You f-ing owned my last season so my opinion doesn’t always matter. Ramsey at 9m also not that cheap. See preseason where Wenger plays Sanchez.
Anyway, by having Hazard, Sanchez and RvP the rest of the team doesn’t look as strong. Think you need to let go of 1.
I know. These big names do look attractive. Sanchez is a must according to me. Could outscore Ramsey with his last season’s stats and him playing far up front.
This is just a draft i made to register my team ID.
I am a big fan of Chester, tempted to get him in too. I wish I knew who was nailed in Stoke’s backline- I like them a lot. Still looking for good rotations though