Here’s our fantasy premier league GW9 defenders article where we give our defender and GK player rankings for gameweek 9. There’s a table of information and player suggestions to help you make a transfer choice.
fantasy premier league GW9 defenders – player rankings for Defs and Gks
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Avoiding the preamble
If you just want a quick transfer suggestion I’ve given these at the end if you want to skip all the preamble.
Stats definitions:
I’ve firstly ordered the teams by what I think is their defensive strength based their goals conceded, xG conceded and the shots per game conceded. These stats are for 19/20 only. You can see the rank of each stat mentioned above in the first 3 columns.
The stats after that are their:
My suggested defender for that team. I’ve tried to take into account what I think is an appropriate price for the team as well as their attacking and points potential. The table then shows their value and current 19/20 PPM
The likely starting GK for the team with the same price and PPM next to them
A bookies odds for a clean sheet for GW9. The lower the better obviously.
The fixture ease rank. The team facing the easiest attacking teams over the next 6 gameweeks is ranked 1. See our fixture ease article
Prices are as of Tuesday 15 October
Gameweek 9 Fixtures
It’s a normal Saturday morning UK time gameweek
The Schedule
If you want access to copy and paste the schedule here’s the google spreadsheet link which I’ve set out differently if you want to sort different columns. Just go File> make a copy to get your own version
The teams are ranked by defensive strength only. Fixtures are not factored in.
Transfer suggestions for GW9
Here I trying to find a combination of defensive strength, a good next fixture and fixtures beyond that for me this week there are 3.
Leicester
Here you can either go for the cheapie in Soyuncu at £4.7m or the attacking option at £6.2m in Pereira.
GW9 BUR (H)
GW10 SOU (A)
GW11 CRY (A)
GW12 ARS (H)
GW13 BHA (A)
GW14 EVE (H)
Man City
Despite the shambolic performances recently I’d still back the Man City defence over the next fixture run. Stones returning and Fernandinho as a CDM could improve things as well. Otamendi and the GK are probably the only safe gametime picks at the moment.
GW9 CRY (A)
GW10 AVL (H)
GW11 SOU (H)
GW12 LIV (A)
GW13 CHE (H)
GW14 NEW (A)
Chelsea
Home to Newcastle is a great entry point for me. Only Tomori as an option at the moment and the GK
GW9 NEW (H)
GW10 BUR (A)
GW11 WAT (A)
GW12 CRY (H)
GW13 MCI (A)
GW14 WHU (H)
Other posts
You can also see Rob Reid’s wildcard article as well as Keith and Costas’s , also Kris O’s wildcard drafts and Ben and Kev’s wildcard drafts
Also Rick Porters cutting through the FPL noise
Early thoughts on the FFGeek team
Scott and Costas’s wildcard teams
The FFGeek captain and transfer polls
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