Here’s our fantasy premier league fixture difficulty GW2 article with our fixture ease schedules. Here we look at the teams and players with the best fixtures from an attacking players and a defensive players perspective over the next 6 gameweeks and then give player suggestions from those teams
fantasy premier league fixture difficulty GW2 – the FFGeek fixture ease schedule
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Introduction
The article was written before Monday nights GW1 games and therefore doesn’t reflect stats from those games
Methodology
The idea is to have 2 fixture ease schedules as teams don’t have the same quality of defence as they do attack. Take Sheffield United. One will rank the teams by the ease of the opposition defences they face over the upcoming games. That will be called the attackers fixture ease schedule. The 2nd will rank the teams by the ease of the attacking teams they face. This will be called the defenders fixture ease schedule.
I’ve taken the overall picture of an average of actual goals and expected goals from 26 games and made a general adjustment for home and away. This will be less volatile than basing a defence or attack on separate games home or away.
I have a fixture graphic below which I’ve colour coded for difficulty. It is just to improve the visual aspect of the schedule and the factors I’ve talked about above, rather than the just the colours, are basis for calculation.
Player values are as at Monday 14 September
A fixture ease schedule for attacking players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the defences they face over the next 6 gameweeks. There’s attacking player suggestions below.
Attacking player stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures. They are Wolves, Leicester, Southampton , Fulham and Spurs
PPM is their 20/21 Points Per Match stats from the FPL site with their 19/20 points per match in brackets. NA means they hadn’t played as I write this article
Wolves
Wolves have not completed their match as I write this
£8.5m Fwd Jimenez – PPM 20/21: NA (PPM 19/20 5.1)
Leicester
£10.0m Fwd Vardy – PPM 20/21: 13.0: (PPM 19/20 6.0)
£7.0m Mid Barnes – PPM 20/21: 3.0: (PPM 19/20 3.7)
Southampton
£8.5m Fwd Ings – PPM 20/21: 2.0: (PPM 19/20 5.2)
£6.0m Mid Adams – PPM 20/21: 2.0: (PPM 19/20 2.6)
£6.0m Mid Ward Prowse – PPM 20/21: 2.0, (PPM 19/20 3.1)
Fulham
£6.0m Fwd Mitrovic – PPM 20/21: 1, (PPM 19/20 na)
Spurs
£10.5m Fwd Kane – PPM 20/21: 2, (PPM 19/20 5.4)
£9.0m Mid Son– PPM 20/21: 2, (PPM 19/20 5.6)
A fixture ease schedule for defensive players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face over the next 6 gameweeks. There’s defensive player suggestions below.
Defender and goalkeeper stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures. They are Wolves, Fulham, Everton, Man Utd and Brighton
PPM is their 19/20 points per match. The 4 teams with postponed games are all near the bottom due to the effect 1 less game has on the calculations
Wolves
Wolves have not completed their match as I write this
£5.5m GK Patricio – (PPM 19/20 4.0)
£5.0m Def Saiss – (PPM 19/20 3.1)
Fulham
Defence should be avoided
Everton
£5.0m GK Pickford PPM 20/21: 8.0 (PPM 19/20 3.1)
£6.om Def Digne – PPM 20/21: 12.0 (PPM 19/20 3.4)
£5.0m Def Keane – PPM 20/21 6.0 (PPM 19/20 2.9)
Man Utd
Man Utd have yet to play as I write this
£5.5m GK De Gea – (PPM 19/20 3.8)
£5.5m Def Wan -Bissaka (PPM 19/20 3.6)
Brighton
Brighton have to play as I write this
£4.5m GK Ryan – (PPM 19/20 3.6)
£4.5m Def Webster – (PPM 19/20 2.8)
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