Here’s our FPL best fixtures GW28 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 3 gameweeks. We’re only look at 3 games ahead at the moment due to the uncertainty of fixtures in GW31
FPL best fixtures GW28 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players
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Important notes before reading
This article was written before the Liverpool West Ham game on Monday.
The article only looks 3 games ahead because of the uncertainty over the fixtures in GW31 caused by a clash with the FA Cup quarter finals. More detail on that below
Methodology
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 26 games and made a general adjustment for home and away. This will be less volatile than basing a defence or attack on separate 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 23 February
Blanks GWks GW28 and GW31
Apologies if you’ve seen this summary in recent articles but it’s important context for a number of articles. You can see more detail in my recent article on the blanks and doubles
Blank GW28
As will be obvious when you read the fixtures that GW28 only has 8 fixtures.
The EFL cup final clashes with GW28 meaning there are the following postponements.
Sheffield United v Aston Villa
Man City v Arsenal
Where they go is yet to be determined.
Blank GW31
The FA Cup 6th round clashes with GW31 meaning there are postponements;
The only guaranteed games are
Burnley v Watford
Wolves v Bournemouth
The most likely other fixture is Norwich v Everton. That will remain if Norwich lose to Spurs in the 5th round
The fixtures for GW31 will be resolved between GW28 and GW29 when the 5th round fixtures are played.
Again my blanks and doubles article will give more detail
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 3 gameweeks. There’s attacking player suggestions below.
Attacking player stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures. That’s Leicester, Southampton, Chelsea, Wolves and C Palace
PPM is their 19/20 points per match from the FPL site
Leicester
£9.7m fwd Vardy – PPM 6.2
£7.4m mid Maddison – PPM 4.4
I’ve not included Barnes or Perez as they were both subs in GW27
Southampton
£7.1m fwd Ings – PPM 5.1
Chelsea
£7.6m fwd Abraham – PPM 5.2
£6.1m mid Mount – PPM 3.8
Wolves
£7.8m fwd Jimenez – PPM 5.1
£6.1m fwd Jota – PPM 3.2
I’ve not included Traore as he was a sub in GW27
C Palace
£6.8m mid Zaha – PPM 3.3
£5.0m fwd Ayew – PPM 3.7
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 3 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 Southampton, Leicester, C Palace, Newcastle and Brighton
PPM is their 19/20 points per match from the FPL site
Southampton
£4.4m GK McCarthy – PPM 3.2
£4.5m Jack Stephens– PPM 3.3
Leicester
£5.3m GK Schmeichel – PPM 4.1
£5.0m Soyuncu– PPM 3.7
£5.6m Chilwell – PPM 4.2
Crystal Palace
£5.1m GK Guaita – PPM 3.8
£4.4m Cahill – PPM 2.6
Newcastle
£5.0m GK Dubravka – PPM 3.9
£4.3m Lascelles – PPM 3.1
Brighton
£4.8m GK Ryan – PPM 3.4
£4.8m Def Dunk – PPM 3.3
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