Here’s our FPL best fixtures GW17 with our fixture ease schedules. Here we look at the teams and players with the best fixtures from an attacking players and a defensive players perspective over the next 6 gameweeks.
FPL best fixtures GW17 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players
Methodology
So I’m now fully using 19/20 data
The idea is to have 2 fixture ease schedules as teams don’t have the same quality of defence as they do attack. Take Arsenal for instance. One will rank the teams by the ease of the opposition defences they face over the upcoming games. That will be called the attackers fixture ease schedule. The 2nd will rank the teams by the ease of the attacking teams they face. This will be called the defenders fixture ease schedule.
I’ve taken the overall picture of an average of actual goals and expected goals from 16 games and made a general adjustment for home and away. This will be less volatile than basing a defence or attack on 8 games home or away.
I have a fixture graphic below which I’ve colour coded for difficulty. It is just to improve the visual aspect of the schedule and the factors I’ve talked about above, rather than the just the colours, are basis for calculation.
Player values are Monday 9 December
A fixture ease schedule for attacking players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the defences they face over the next 6 gameweeks. There’s attacking player suggestions below.
Attacking player stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures. That’s C palace, Man Utd, Bournemouth, Chelsea and Aston Villa
I’ve ditched their 18/19 points per match and now it’s just the current 19/20.
C Palace
£5.1m fwd Ayew PPM – 3.6
£6.8m mid Zaha PPM – 3.2
Man Utd
£8.9m fwd Rashford – PPM 6.3 Has penalty duties
£7.6m mid Martial – PPM 5.2
Bournemouth
No one at the moment
Chelsea
£7.9M fwd Abraham – PPM 6.5
£7.5m mid Pulisic – PPM 4.8
£7.0m mid Willian – PPM 3.7
£6.6m mid Mount – PPM 4.3
Aston Villa
£6.0m mid Grealish – PPM 4.7
£5.5m mid El Ghazi – PPM 3.9
A fixture ease schedule for defensive players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face over the next 6 gameweeks. There’s defensive player suggestions below.
Defensive player stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures in the schedule. That’s Man Utd, C Palace, Bournemouth, A Villa and Brighton
I’ve ditched their 18/19 points per match and now it’s just the current 19/20.
Man Utd
£5.5m GK De Gea – PPM 3.1
£5.3m Def Maguire – PPM 2.1
C Palace
£5.0m GK Guaita– PPM 4.4
£4.3m Def Kelly – PPM 4.5
Bournemouth
No one
A Villa
no one defensively
Brighton
£4.8m GK Ryan – PPM 4.1
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