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
Is Walters nailed on to start ..?
Happy to take some laundered money from you all! E-mail is with you Cookie. About time I made some money from this game, none of my mates will play for cash.
They’ll play if you pay for them. 😉
Draft 1:
————–I De Gea I———-
—- Cahill —– Shaw —– Vlarr
Fabregas — Tadic — Barkley — Mata
—- Giroud. — Sturridge — Dzeko
Bench– Myhill, Upson, Bruce, Albrighton
Draft 2:
————–I Krul I———-
—-Jagielka —– Shaw —– Vlarr
Fabregas — Tadic — Barkley — De Jong
—- Van Persie. — Sturridge — Dzeko
Bench– Myhill, Upson, Bruce, Albrighton
Draft 1 for me…
Team 2 is a bit exciting, but risky too in the midfield.
Really good team sure you havent over spent Like 2nd team more
Nope it’s 100 m
Yo peeps…
Check this n’ Rate plz..
Szcheny
Azpil / Debuchy / Fonte / Cameron
Sanchez / Fabrigas / Tiote
Aguero / Sturridge / Remy
Subs Gk. Krul / Vlaar / Lucas / Albrighton
Not sure Fabregas is going to score highly if he’s playing alongside Matic- wait and see how Mourinho uses him. Yours is the second team to include Tiote- can’t understand that myself!
Pipin…
Yea maybe …. I may switch fab to Gerrard ..!
Tiote …cheap & plays..!
Ta..
Dont think Azpi is nailed now.
No need for both Debuchy and Shezny.
Is Cameron nailed? Or will Huth be in his place?
Tiote?
Yo …B.
Azpil defo nailed now Coles gone..
Cameron played most mins last season…. Hutch getting on a bit….
If Debuchy joins Arsenal may keep or upgrade szchney to Courtois for double Chelski cover…
Tiote …cheap & plays..!
Chelsea have signed Luis for the LB position so Azpi is most definitely not nailed and should go back to bench, unless Mou decides to rotate Ivan with Terry/Cahill in the CB, which would free up RB position for Azpi.
Niiice one Cookie. Perfect amount too as it won’t stop good advice being given still but will be a nice total overall. Hope a decent number sign up.
Exactly CC, last thing we want happening is for people to go into their shells – felt a bit like that with the World Cup one to be honest.
Why do people keep thinking Fabregas will be playing alongside Matic.? This is Fabregas where talking about here. Jose hasn’t payed 30m for him to sit in front of the defence.
Matic – Fabregas
Schurle – Willian/Oscar – Hazard
Costa
So where does kheidra fit in ??