Here’s my ranking of the next 6 fantasy premier league fixtures from game week 2 onwards plus in brackets how the next 6 fixtures will look like from GW3 GW4 and GW5 so you can see the fantasy premier league trends in fixtures coming up. Ive added the link to the post before at the bottom of this post this so you can get a full explanation of how it works. Also I’ve added 2 new features
1. The next fantasy premier league fixture
2. The “don’t sell this team” which follows my rule that you should never sell a player from a team which has an easy game next (obviously injury permitting)
REMEMBER GW3 CHELSEA & READING DONT PLAY SO YOU DONT WANT MORE THAN 4 OF THESE PLAYERS AFTER GW2. THIS MAY DICTATE YOUR TRANSFER STRATEGY
Also when you but and sell always look at actual fixtures as a common sense test. Man U’s next 3 fixtures aren’t obvious from this schedule as its 3 easy then 3 difficult.
By the way, in my mind there isn’t enough data for this fantasy premier league season yet to integrate this season in to the analysis. I’m not planning on doing this until after GW5 at the moment.
Fixture ease rank and trending
GW2 fixture ease GW3 – Nxt 6 GW4 nxt 6 GW5 nxt 6
1. Swansea (West Ham H) 1 7 15
2. Spurs (WBA H) 6 6 5
3. Everton (Villa A) 4 4 4
4 WBA (Spurs A) 5 9 2
5 West Ham (Swansea A) 2 2 11
6 Villa (Everton H) 11 3 7
7 Chelsea (Newc H) 13 19 19
8 Sunderland (Reading H) 14 14 8
9 Man U (Fulham H) 7 18 20
10 Wigan (South A) 10 11 9
11 Fulham (Man U A) 3 1 1
12 Newc (Chelsea A) 8 10 14
13 Southampton (Wig H) 15 13 3
14 Norwich (QPR H) 19 15 16
15 Man City (Liv A) 9 12 6
16 QPR (Nor A) 17 17 10
17 Arsenal (Stoke A) 16 5 17
18 Reading (Sunderland A) 18 16 12
19 Liverpool (Man City H) 12 8 13
20 Stoke ( Arsenal H) 20 20 18
So from this schedule the most compelling teams to have players for short and long term fixtures are:
Spurs
Everton
Fulham
Captain planning
however having players to fill the captain slots is also important. Heres the fixtures that will probably make up our captain choice
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
Round 7
Man City v Sunderland
Chelsea v Norwich
Spurs v Villa
Round 8
Liverpool V Reading
Man U v Stoke
Round 9
Ars V QPR
City v Swansea
Round 10
Tottenham Wigan
Tottenham and the 2 Manchester Clubs feature the most prominently in this so keep a presence of these teams.
Dont sell!
Heres the dont sell list for this week
1. Man U home to Fulham and then 2 easy games after at saints and then home to Wigan.
2. Chelsea (unless its the Torres Rooney swap or you need to for GW3 numbers home to a Newcastle team that was prone to the odd thrashing away and that will have some players presumably playing tonight)
3. Norwich home to QPR. I knows its tempting but not before this game.
4 Tottenham and Swansea home to WBA and West Ham respectively
