With the FPL site opening next week I thought it was about time for a fantasy premier league defensive rotations article. Here are 5 examples of how a 3 way rotation could work
fantasy premier league defensive rotations – 5 examples of rotation with 3 teams
The theory behind a rotation of 3 teams
If 3-4-3 is to be your primary formation then you may want 2 premium defenders from the likes of Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd who will play virtually every game. The 3rd spot will be filled by one of 3 defenders who will rotate in order to give the best fixture possible each week. The defenders will all hopefully be no more expensive than £4.5m in order to minimise cost on the bench.
I’ve tried a number of combinations and come up with these 5 options as good examples hopefully with defenders becoming available at £4.5m.
At the moment this is how I intend to structure my team. Although things could change when the site opens.
I talk about rotation in more detail in my Ebook “a guide to the fantasy premier league season 2018/18”
How do the schedules work?
The schedules below are in the order that I favour. Picking them was a combination of fixtures and defensive strength. There’s a summary below the 5 schedules of potential clean sheets at various stages of the first 19 gameweeks.
The schedules track the fixtures through the first 19 gameweeks and there’s a schedule below outlining the potential clean sheets that could occur at various stages of those 19 gameweeks. The potential clean sheets are highlighted in green. The fixtures outside the potential clean sheets are in orange.
A potential clean sheet is one at home to the following teams:
Watford
Swansea
Bournemouth
WBA
Stoke
C Palace
Newcastle
Brighton
Huddersfield.
The schedule is a graphic. However, there’s a link to the google spreadsheet below it so you can copy it if you want
The 5 schedules
The schedules are in the order that I favour them.
Here’s the link to the google spreadsheets:
Here’s the summary schedule:
Some thoughts generally
I went for the first schedule as I think these were the 3 strongest defensive teams although there’s still a way to go to make that judgement. To me WBA, Stoke and Burnley should have £4.5m defenders although WBA and Stoke I’m not 100% certain about. I’m expecting to Wildcard around gameweek 10 which would work out ok on this schedule.
The 1 disappointing thing about the WBA, Stoke and Burnley schedule is that up to GW10 there aren’t many back 4 options if the 4th midfielder or 3rd striker is away to Chelsea in one of the fixtures. None of them are really that strong though in that regard.
Which one you pick will depend on whether you have fixed views on when you’re going to wildcard. Thats why I went for 5 options which worked across all the time frames.
Hope you found it useful. A 2 player rotation will come next
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