Below is the list of in order of the teams with the best fixtures in the opening 6 games of the fantasy premier league season. I have used 6 as a rough rule of thumb of how far I think fantasy premier league managers should look forward. In 6 games you would have had nearly a 50% chance of transferring the player out of your team.
I have ranked the fixtures based on defensive facts from last year including:
(i) underlying shot stats
(ii) goals conceded
(iii) clean sheets
(iv) form from late season fixtures.
I have then scored the fixtures and ranked them accordingly.
The order from the fantasy premier league team with the best opening 6 fixtures at the top to worst at the bottom:
1 Swansea
2. West Ham
3. Aston Villa
4. Tottenham
5. Chelsea
6. Sunderland
7. Everton
8. WBA
9. Newcastle
10 Manchester United
11. Fulham
12. Wigan
13 Norwich
14 Manchester City
15 Reading
16 QPR
17 Arsenal
18 Stoke
19 Liverpool
20 Southampton
Also to factor in is the potential club where captain choice comes from. That is based purely on the better attacking teams with the easiest fantasy premier league home fixture. It should be viewed cautiously at this stage as players form could skew the results once the season starts. You wouldn’t necessarily look at Fulhams fixtures as a fantasy premier league captain fixture for example but Dempsey was a viable captain choice last year
Round 1
Chelsea v Wigan H plus Reading away
Man City v Southampton
Round 2
Man Utd v Fulham
Tottenham v WBA
Round 3
Tottenham v Norwich
Man City v QPR
Round 4
Man Utd v Wigan
Arsenal v Southampton
Round 5
Tottenham v QPR
Chelsea v Stoke
Round 6
Everton V Southampton
Now lets re-issue the schedule with the number of captain mentions added to it and you will see the importance of having certain teams represented in fantasy premier league even if overall their fixtures aren’t that strong. That should eventually sit well with your fantasy premier league undroppables (RVP and Bale last year)
1 Swansea
2. West Ham
3. Aston Villa
4. Tottenham (3)
5. Chelsea (2)
6. Sunderland
7. Everton (1)
8. WBA
9. Newcastle
10 Manchester United (2)
11. Fulham
12. Wigan
13 Norwich
14 Manchester City (2)
15 Reading
16 QPR
17 Arsenal (1)
18 Stoke
19 Liverpool
20 Southampton
Here’s highlighting the top teams fixtures:
Swansea
Home matches against West Ham Sunderland and Everton give reasonable fantasy premier league goal prospects and clean sheets as do the away games of Villa and QPR. Look to Danny Graham, Sinclair and Dyer
West Ham
Good Homes to Villa Fulham and Sunderland with good aways against Norwich and QPR. Expect big Sam to be cautious however. Possibly look to Vaz Te, Nolan and Noble
Aston Villa
Good homes to Everton Swansea and WBA plus away to Southampton and West Ham. Are old fantasy premier league favourites like Darren Bent, N’Zogbia and Ireland worth a punt.
Tottenham
WBA Norwich and QPR visit White Hart Lane and an away fixture to reading make the likes of Bale VDV and Sigurdsson very attractive
Hopefully that will give some assistance in planning your opening team and judging who and what teams to look out for when the all important friendlies start.