Here’s my ranking of the ease of each clubs next 6 fantasy premier league fixtures from game week 18 onwards plus in the next columns how the next 6 fixtures will look like from GW19 and GW20. Now you can see the fantasy premier league trends in fixtures coming up.
I’ve also included “captain planning” for the weeks ahead and The “don’t sell this team” part which follows my rule that you should never sell a player from a team which has an easy game next (obviously injury permitting)
Also when you buy and sell always look at actual fixtures as a common sense test. A team may be ranked low on the fixture ease schedule because the last 4 of the 6 are hard but the next 2 could be Southampton and Reading so don’t sell at this point.
Fixture ease rank and trending
Fixture Ease ranking schedule for 6 games from GW18(Next game in brackets) | ||||
Team | GW 19 next 6 | GW20 next 6 | ||
1 | WBA (Nor H) | 9 | 10 | |
2 | West H ( Eve H) | 3 | 1 | |
3 | Totten (Stok H) | 8 | 6 | |
4 | Man U (Swa A) | 1 | 5 | |
5 | Swansea (Man U H) | 6 | 11 | |
6 | Man C (Rdg H) | 11 | 15 | |
7 | A Villa(Che A) | 2 | 4 | |
8 | Everton (Whm A) | 4 | 2 | |
9 | Liverpool (Ful H) | 16 | 17 | |
10 | Newcastle(QPR H) | 17 | 12 | |
11 | Chelsea (Avl H) | 12 | 13 | |
12 | Reading (Mcy A) | 5 | 3 | |
13 | Arsenal (Wig A) | 15 | 8 | |
14 | Wigan(Ars H) | 14 | 9 | |
15 | Stoke( Tot A) | 10 | 16 | |
16 | Fulham (Liv A) | 7 | 14 | |
17 | Southampton (Sun H) | 20 | 20 | |
18 | QPR (New A) | 18 | 18 | |
19 | Sunderland (South A) | 13 | 7 | |
20 | Norwich (WBA A ) | 19 | 19 |
So from this schedule the most compelling teams to have players for short and long term fixtures are:
Tottenham – Bale when fit, Defoe and Gallas
Man Utd – RVP
Aston Villa – Benteke, Cark
West Ham – O’Brien, Nolan
Everton – Jagielka, Jelavic, Osman
Captain planning
However having players to fill the captain slots is also important. Here’s the fixtures that will probably make up our captain choice. Obviously at the moment this ignores RVP who could get the armband permanently. I’ve put Reading in every gameweek so you can monitor who they are playing as they seem the juiciest opponents at the moment
Round 18
Chelsea V Villa
Manchester City V Reading
Round 19
Man Utd v Newcastle
Reading v Swansea
Round 20
Man Utd V WBA
Arsenal v Newcastle
Reading v West ham
Round 21
Tottenham v Reading
Wigan v Man U
Chelsea v QPR
Liverpool v Sunderland
Round 22
Everton v Swansea
Reading v WBA
Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool and the 2 Manchester Clubs feature the most prominently.
Dont sell!
Heres the dont sell list for this week due to a good fixture
1. Wigan V Arsenal
2. Man City v Reading
3. Liverpool v Fulham
4. Chelsea v Villa