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
Morning all
Opinions on Best mid for 5.0 anyone?
Currently gone for S Davis
Hammers
Rodwell could be a great buy with his move to Sunderland where he will certainly play most of the early season , at least
Thought about him. Bit injury prone though I think
Morning all,
Hows everyone’s teams shaping up?
Think I’m happy but that could change after the CS
Nice line up. I see a lot of love for Bojan on here. He hasn’t really done the business in recent seasons and his scoring record has been very poor.
Yeah I know but his pre season form has been good and with him being so cheap it allows you to strengthen in other areas. Would expect him to score a few with stokes opening fixtures.
Yes indeed it does. I’ll point out Nicolas Anelka was flavour of pre-season last year with something like 9 goals. Stoke do have some nice games though so I can see the appeal.
Which team do we like?
…Or this
I prefer the 2nd
Foster – Green
Filipe Luis – Jones – Mariappa – Van Aanholt – Coloccini
Sanchez – Mata – Eriksen – Henderson – Sigurdsson
Rooney – Diego Costa – Bojan
Here my current team.
Fabs playing deeper concerns me so should I straight swap him for silva or down him to Eriksen and use the 1mil to upgrade PVA or davis
I haven’t seen any of Chelseas matches but soccerway says he’s started the last couple of games in the more attacking role.
Oscar and hazard have only just joined up with the squad so I think when they’re both fully fit he’ll play deep with matic,
Oscar, hazard, willian, schurrle, salah will then be competing for the attacking 3 behind costa.
Is it me or my inner soul that see’s a Siggy meltdown taking place?
You heard this here First.
His return pointwise will be low this season !
There is more appeal elsewhere.
Potty
Who are the better options?
Remy Cabella
24 years of age.
Genius with the football.
Will become a Newcastle Utd legend.
Will get goals and assists galore.
Simples
Potty
Won’t have time to become a legend. He will do a Cabaye! 😉
Agree. It’s just difficult getting that extra 1.5mill
Prefer de Jong to Capella tbh
Prefer Siggy to both!
Hammers
De Jong is so injury prone.
He is the North-Easts.. Andy Carroll
Potty
He’s 7.5 though. Who else is there for 6?
For me Siggy is the best option at 6.0. If Potty has convinced you though, Id look at Puncheon for a replacment at the same price. Im sticky with Siggy personally.