Here’s our fantasy premier league tips midfielders GW6 article in our player rankings series. There’s a table of stats to help you make a transfer choice and some explanatory narrative afterwards including their fixtures
fantasy premier league tips midfielders GW6 – player rankings
This is the 2nd article in our player rankings series. See the defender and GK player rankings articles
Methodology
I’ve started with a selection of midfielders that I think will start GW6 and have some longevity in the team.
I’ve then taken their expected goals and assist information from 17/18 and converted it into projected points through adjustments for minutes played bonus and fixtures. There’s also adjustments for any specific relevant 18/19 factors. For fixtures I’ve increased the view to 6 games.
Whether you believe the rankings or not there’s plenty of information to make your own decision
We are obviously only 5 gameweeks in so it’s inevitable that the large basis of information is based on last seasons stats
Stats definitions
Pts per 90: the FPL points earned per 90 minutes played in 17/18
Fixture ease ranking so you can see who has the best fixtures from GW6-11 and GW6-8. See our fixture ease article
Underlying stats ranking is from our end of season underlying stats article where projected goals are turned into raw points. It’s their rank in relation to each other not for every midfielder. Info from the excellent free site understat.com article
VFM rank. I have divided their projected points by their price to get a rough value for money assessment
ATGS GW6 – 1 bookies anytime goalscoring odds for the player. It assumes they start and doesn’t include assist potential
The comments are a little short but with 18 midfielders I would be doing it all day unless that was the case.
The schedule
Salah
Salah despite the negativity and lower returns, Salah is posting even better underlying stats than last season. Can’t be written off yet.
Southampton (H)
Chelsea (A)
Man City (H)
Huddersfield (A)
Cardiff (H)
Arsenal (A)
Hazard
Not so great underlying stats are meaningless to Hazard. He outperforms them every time. Also has pens and a very attacking manager who doesn’t want him to defend any more.
West Ham (A)
Liverpool (H)
Southampton (A)
Man Utd (H)
Burnley (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
D Silva
Silva is probably the least rotatable mid for City with De Bruyne being injured. Has added the ability to get into the box to his ability to create chances
Cardiff (A)
Brighton (H)
Liverpool (A)
Burnley (H)
Spurs (A)
Southampton (H)
Mane
Like Salah negativity surrounds him but he continues to produce returns and underlying stats even above last seasons level.
Southampton (H)
Chelsea (A)
Man City (H)
Huddersfield (A)
Cardiff (H)
Arsenal (A)
Fraser
Fraser when you analyse his position as an attacking midfielder (as opposed to the different positions Howe put him in) this and last season has seen very good underlying stats and couple that with good fixtures is the reason for his high ranking.
Burnley (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Watford (A)
Southampton (H)
Fulham (A)
Man Utd (H)
Schurrle
Schurrle also has been posting good underlying stats and in particular his shot volumes are high. It’s hard to judge him when his last season in the PL was some years ago with Chelsea but the numbers he’s posting seem sustainable (famous last words)
Watford (H)
Everton (A)
Arsenal (H)
Cardiff (A)
Bournemouth (H)
Huddersfield (A)
Pogba
Pogba like the rest of the United players hasn’t been producing like last season although his last outing was an improvement. Man Utd do have good fixtures though which is the attraction.
Wolves (H)
West Ham (A)
Newcastle (H)
Chelsea (A)
Everton (H)
Bournemouth (A)
Sterling
Sterlings only limitations are the price and the inevitable Pep rotation which will see games missed or on the bench.
Cardiff (A)
Brighton (H)
Liverpool (A)
Burnley (H)
Spurs (A)
Southampton (H)
Sanchez
Sanchez is been a poor imitation of previous years. Fixtures are the only attraction
Wolves (H)
West Ham (A)
Newcastle (H)
Chelsea (A)
Everton (H)
Bournemouth (A)
Eriksen
Like Sanchez a poor imitation of last year. Has set pieces as a platform for improvement and reasonable fixtures
Brighton (A)
Huddersfield (A)
Cardiff (H)
West Ham (A)
Man City (H)
Wolves (A)
Lingard
Constantly being subbed around 70 minutes and also at a level way below last year are the issues for Lingard. Good fixtures are the positive.
Wolves (H)
West Ham (A)
Newcastle (H)
Chelsea (A)
Everton (H)
Bournemouth (A)
Richarlison
Has Richarlison removed that inability to finish off chances that plagued him last season. What you think of that is the key to your view of him. 2 games effectively isn’t enough to dispel it for me yet.
Arsenal (A)
Fulham (H)
Leicester (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Man Utd (A)
Moura
2 good games 3 ordinary ones. Does play striker and does have good fixtures. Son and Lamela represent gametime risk though
Brighton (A)
Huddersfield (A)
Cardiff (H)
West Ham (A)
Man City (H)
Wolves (A)
Ramsey
Ramsey despite playing CAM has just been very poor this season. All about history and fixtures
Everton (H)
Watford (H)
Fulham (A)
Leicester (H)
Crystal Palace (A)
Liverpool (H)
Walcott
Walcott has been living off one decent game v Southampton. Apart from that he’s been very ordinary
Arsenal (A)
Fulham (H)
Leicester (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Man Utd (A)
Pereyra
Pereyra has had a couple of good games and 3 ordinary ones. The jury is still out as to whether he can perform adequately
Fulham (A)
Arsenal (A)
Bournemouth (H)
Wolves (A)
Huddersfield (H)
Newcastle (A)
Ozil
Ozil has been terrible with little to nil attacking output so far this season. His goal last week was virtually the only thing he did. Not even creating chances.
Everton (H)
Watford (H)
Fulham (A)
Leicester (H)
Crystal Palace (A)
Liverpool (H)
Maddison
Maddison has had 2 very good games in GW4 and GW5 although they followed 3 pretty ordinary ones with little attacking output. Plays CAM and is easy on the eye but needs to show the last 2 games are the continuing Maddison. Has the fixtures to do it.
Huddersfield (H)
Newcastle (A)
Everton (H)
Arsenal (A)
West Ham (H)
Cardiff (A)
See also Alex Ball’s wildcard, bandwagons and sinking ships article, 10 top FPL managers article, underlying stats GW5 article, the early thoughts on the FFGeek team article and the fixture ease article
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