Here’s my ranking of the ease of each clubs next 6 fantasy premier league fixtures from game week 19 onwards plus in the next columns how the next 6 fixtures will look like from GW20 and GW21. Now you can see the fantasy premier league trends in fixtures coming up. Remember Arsenal v West Ham is postponed until the 23rd Jan
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 GW19(Next game in brackets) | ||||
Team | GW 20 next 6 | GW21 next 6 | ||
1 | Man U (Newc H) | 5 | 9 | |
2 | A Villa ( Tott H) | 4 | 2 | |
3 | West H (n/a) | 1 | 1 | |
4 | Everton (Wig H) | 2 | 4 | |
5 | Reading (Swa H) | 3 | 12 | |
6 | Swansea (Rdg A) | 11 | 5 | |
7 | Fulham (South H) | 14 | 16 | |
8 | Totten (AVL A) | 6 | 3 | |
9 | WBA (QPR A) | 10 | 11 | |
10 | Stoke (Liv H) | 16 | 17 | |
11 | Man City (Sun A) | 15 | 13 | |
12 | Chelsea (Nor A) | 13 | 7 | |
13 | Sunderland (Mcy H) | 7 | 8 | |
14 | Wigan(Eve A) | 9 | 10 | |
15 | Arsenal ( n/a) | 8 | 6 | |
16 | Liverpool (Stoke A) | 17 | 18 | |
17 | Newcastle (Man Utd A) | 12 | 15 | |
18 | QPR (WBA H) | 18 | 19 | |
19 | Norwich (Che H) | 19 | 14 | |
20 | Southampton (Ful A ) | 20 | 20 |
So from this schedule the most compelling teams to have players for short and long term fixtures are:
Tottenham – Bale, Defoe and Vertonghen
Man Utd – RVP
Aston Villa – Benteke, Clark
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. I’ve also added in Villa A
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
Swansea v Villa
Round 22
Everton v Swansea
Reading v WBA
Round 23
WBA v Villa
Arsenal 2 games Chelsea A and WHam H
Liverpool v Norwich
Man City v Fulham
Newcastle v Reading
Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool and the 2 Manchester Clubs plus now Swansea feature the most prominently.
Dont sell!
Heres the dont sell list for this week due to a good fixture
1. Everton v Wigan
2. Man Utd v Newcastle
3. Reading v Swansea