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
hey Calvin not seen u since its been up but thanks for the fixture tracker thing it must have taken aagggeeesss to do mate cheers
Thanks my pointy friend
Took a bit more of a serious note following on from your laugh-a-minute captains article, but that’s how I roll, no messing about haha.
Hows does this look peeps ?
elle, looks strong!! starting 11 looks sound!!
bench….
id go for ward prowse over davis.
bruce might not start, id go for a more guarenteed 4.0 starter- not that there are many!! probably wisdom to be honest. looks a great team, good luck for the upcoming season buddy.
the more i look it looks more like mine- 8 players the same :big-lol:
Cheers Haz, i’ll just mess about with the benchees then. Was trying a team with Sturridge, Costa + Rooney up top, but to much money gone on 3 players makes the rest of the team unbalanced + weak.
yeah, me too, hoping to bring aguero up top with costa and rooney. seems unfordable without scraping an average midfield and poor defence!! will see how to play the wildcard with another good article from FF247… hint hint 😉
Which one sounds best,
A) Baines & Fabregas
B) Debuchy & Hazard?
Thanks
Why has that happened?
B) b)
It’s just one of the emoticons that doesn’t need them :: but I’d have Debuchy and Hazard
Due to the initial fixtures B
Full auto-select team… who fancies it?
Nah, its crap.
haha just a bit!!
1 word comment.
Sanchez
OR
Ramsey
??
Ramsey.
Ramsey
Sanchez makes my team.
There’s always one isn’t there… 😉
It’s my squad set up I can have one from Yaya/Sanchez/Hazard and one from Mata/Silva/Ramsey/Fabregas, can’t pick them all
Haz + Ramsey.
I’m taking Sanchez + Mata, Haz has shown little so far Elle
he will produce- always does!!
Why not Ramsey + Mata?
It’s the prices Tekno, if I had Ramsey + Mata I’ll not be able to cover a switch between a 9m and possibly 11m (Yaya) mid as I’m not leaving 2m in the piggy bank just in case, it’s a simple FT switch between Yaya/Haz/Sanchez if I have just .5 in the kitty, and the second group is all in the same pricing bracket. It won’t take hits and a possible breaking up of my defenders/forwards to raise extra cash if one of the big 3 mids take off.
One word Andy. :big-lol:
thansk for feedback guys, gone for rambo!! sorry andy 😉
i THINK i MIGHT be there. probably not!!