Here’s our FPL best fixtures GW31 article 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 GW31 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players
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Methodology
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The idea is to have 2 fixture ease schedules as teams don’t have the same quality of defence as they do attack. Take Sheffield United for instance. Excellent defence but poor attack.
One schedule 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 and made a general adjustment for home and away which has been significantly reduced for closed door games.
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 as at 21st June
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 6 teams with the best fixtures. They are Newcastle, Watford, Everton, Man Utd, Spurs and Wolves
PPM is their 19/20 points per match
Newcastle
No one for me
Watford
£6.4m Mid Sarr – PPM 4.0
£6.2m Fwd Deeney – PPM 3.8 (has pens)
Everton
£8.3m Mid Richarlison – PPM 4.9
£6.5m Fwd Calvert Lewin – PPM 4.1
Man Utd
£8.6m Mid Fernandes – PPM 7.8 (has pens)
£8.8m Fwd Rashford – PPM 5.9
£8.0m Mid Martial – PPM 5.2
Spurs
£9.7m Mid Son HM – PPM 5.6
£7.4m Mid Bergwijn – PPM 5.5
£8.3m Mid Alli – PPM 5.2
£10.8m Fwd Kane – PPM 5.0 (has pens)
Wolves
£8.1m fwd Jimenez – PPM 5.2
£6.4m fwd Jota – PPM 3.5
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 6 teams with the best fixtures. They are Man Utd, Watford, Spurs, Leicester, Chelsea and West Ham
PPM is their 19/20 points per match
Man Utd
£5.3m Def Maguire – PPM 3.0
£5.3m GK De Gea – PPM 3.5
Watford
£4.3m Def Masina – PPM 3.1
£4.9m GK Foster – PPM 3.8
Spurs
£4.9m Def Aurier – PPM 3.6
£5.3m GK Lloris – PPM 4.3
Leicester
£4.9m Def Soyuncu – PPM 3.6
£4.7m Def Justin – PPM 3.0
£5.4m GK Schmeichel – PPM 4.1
Chelsea
£5.9m Def Azpilicueta – PPM 3.3
West Ham
No one
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