Fixture Tracker – Fantasy Premier League 2014-15
We’ve all seen a few different ways of viewing upcoming fixtures, and the one that has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years is the colour-coded one. With this, you can instantly see each team’s approaching fixtures with an accompanying colour that corresponds to the difficulty of each match. This is very useful for both identifying teams that are potentially about to have a great run due to a kind set of fixtures, and also identifying weaker teams that can rotate well, i.e. when one team has a bad fixture the other will have a decent one, so you swap between the two players. For more info on rotation, check out Mito’s somewhat exceptional article on it 😉 Rotation Analysis Home and Away and Favourable fixtures
Many of these colour-coded tickers only show a few weeks in advance, which is very helpful for short-term plans, but not if you’re planning transfers for the long-term. It is understandable that these tickers are short-term, as teams’ form tends to fluctuate as the season progresses, so if you made a season-long ticker now, it may well not be a good reflection of how difficult a match is come Christmas or Easter. Who knows, maybe Villa will get off to a blinder and win 10 out of 15 (hahaha!), in which case a game against them would no longer be considered easy. Also, sometimes we may even disagree with the colour a certain match has been assigned by the fantasy football gurus that make the tickers! The ticker I have made is designed with both of these points in mind, and can be updated throughout the season as and when you see fit.
Customisable Tracker
Some of you may already have seen my earlier prototype after I posted it on the boards last week (much to init’s dismay :p ) – I have since added all 38 GWs to the tracker, modified the colours used and added a new custom search for individual teams, so even if you had the original please do use this updated version instead.
And it works like this: I have split up all 20 teams into four groups of similar ability, and then given every possible combination (of which there are 32) a difficulty rating of between A and E (5 difficulties as opposed to 3 for greater accuracy). Both of these factors are the variables that you can change, and doing so will automatically update the colours in your fixtures tab. Simply click on the ‘Variables’ tab as shown in fig.1, change any of the values in the cyan-coloured columns shown in fig. 2,
and you will be able to view your very own customised 38 GW fixture tracker as shown in the main image above. This is all explained in more detail in the ‘How It Works’ tab. Finally, I have made a ‘Compare Fixtures’ tab as well – this allows you to select only the teams you wish in order to see just how well they compare and/or rotate, without having the distraction of all 20 teams’ colours present. If you wish to use this tool then select the ‘Compare Fixtures’ tab and then click on the ‘Add Team’ drop-down menu as shown in fig. 3 and choose the team you want. You can do this with as many or as few teams as you wish. Though it seems rather simple, I found this last feature very tricky and would not have been able to make it work as well as it does without the help of Dreamers, so a huge thanks to him!
I have made the link read-only, so as to preserve the template in its original format for everyone in case the formulas stop working. Just save your own version of the file, and you will be able to customise it entirely as you see fit. Please bear in mind that this was made with Google Sheets and is intended to be used in that format so it can be saved in favourites for easy access; if you download it with Excel then the margins and borders will probably be off so will need adjusting. I am always open to suggestions for ways to improve it, so feel free to send me a message or post a comment below to that effect if you have any ideas. And finally, I have double- and triple-checked the fixtures, but there are a lot of them and after a point they all tend to blur together, so if you spot any mistakes please let me know as soon as possible!
Click the link below for the file. Hope it helps a few of you, happy customising.
Fixture Tracker – Fantasy Premier League 2014-15
Just because…
Still dont like my team – considering alternatives.
Thoughts on?
Evening Dreams, you only have 1 playing keeper the same as Sid, i’m a stickler for 2 playing keepers. Peeps on here were saying Begovic/ Fabianski rotate well bit did the Swans get beat 3-0 today ? Don’t look good for Fabs if he played, have to wait for the teamsheet off GP. I’m not overkeen on De Gea, i think United will ship goals as LVG instills a new system.
hey Ellefcee – bit of a thinking process that. Think Sunderland have another friendly. If Mannone plays, might reconsider.
what you make of the rest of it and which team you prefer?
1st one for me Dreams,i’ve got the same front 8 along with Debuchy, was thinking Fab to Silva tho.
thanks elle – still not entirely happy with it especially Bojan
will there be an update on ff247 team article ?
anyone have teams for today’s friendlies involving premiership teams ?
is this line-up sexy or does it need a tweak ?
foster gilks
shaw cahill caulker ward n.taylor
mata silva ramsay siggi davis
rooney costa bojan
I know the keepers are weak but I don’t mind that , if a defender concedes a goal he can still score at the other end !
sid – I’d pay the extra 0.5 for another keeper. one 4m defender or one 4.5 mid achieves it.
Otherwise squad looks good. I’m on the fence re Bojan.
loan me half a million then dreamers …don’t like the look of any 4.5m mid really
sid – you can also achieve it with a 4m defender
that may be the way to go and leave him as 3rd sub.
+ 1 on this one Sid, told you last week to get a 2nd playing keeper, you are just stuck with WBAs games and thats it, no leeway at all, downgrade Caulker to 4.5m playing defender + get yourself a 4.5m keeper that plays.
Which combination do you guys prefer?
Hazard,young and terry
Or
Eriksen,mata,Jose enrique(I know liverpools def is a bit dodgy but he is the only defender from a top team who I think will start for the price of 5mil)
1st one matey.
Really? Young?
No i’m 53. :big-lol:
Haz, Mata + Terry then. :thumbup:
I support the mighty reds, Moreno in next week, won’t play 1st game probably, then hes a fixture i think, Enrique would have been sold ages ago only he had a long term injury.
FDMS – will he start when Morena or whatever his name is signs?
Id go the second choice but prob someone else over Enrique
Thanks for clearing things up guys!
Evening all what have I missed anyone spotted a 4m Def who will start nearly sorted my team so many options
Silvr – Baird played again today and West Brom supposedly will listen to offers for Molumbu
Evening all, taken Ramsey out for Sanchez as i can’t not have him in the squad! Thoughts on this team would be great – oh and COYH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
De Gea – Gilks
Filipe Luis – Caulker – Mariappa – Van Aanholt – Coloccini
Sanchez – Mata – Eriksen – Henderson – Sigurdsson
Rooney – Diego Costa – Bojan
Quite strange your team almost identical to mine & another Leeds fan 1 MF 1def good team
Hatters + Whites, you both only have 1 playing keeper + i fancy United to at least concede goals in the new system.