Here’s our FPL best fixtures GW37 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 2 gameweeks.
FPL best fixtures GW37 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players
Methodology
This article was written before the Thursday fixtures of GW37+
The idea is to have 2 fixture ease schedules as teams don’t have the same quality of defence as they do attack. Take Crystal Palace for instance. Good 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 16 July
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 2 gameweeks. There’s attacking player suggestions below.
Attacking player stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures. They are Arsenal, Man City, Burnley, Aston Villa and Brighton
PPM is their 19/20 points per match
Arsenal
£10.9m Fwd Aubameyang – PPM 5.5
£4.7m Mid Saka – PPM 2.8
Manchester City
£10.8m Mid De Bruyne – PPM 6.8 (Should have pens)
£8.6m Mid Mahrez – PPM 5.3
£5.5m Mid Foden – PPM 2.9
£9.8m Fwd Jesus – PPM 4.2
£11.8m Mid Sterling – PPM 5.8
Burnley
£6.1m Fwd Wood – PPM 4.0
£5.7m Fwd Rodriguez – PPM 2.8 (injury to be monitored)
Aston Villa
£5.9m Mid Grealish – PPM 4.0
£5.1m Fwd Samatta – PPM 2.2
Brighton
£5.8m Mid Trossard – PPM 3.4
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 2 gameweeks. There’s defensive player suggestions below.
Defensive player stats
Here I’ve picked out the 5 teams with the best fixtures. They are Man City, Burnley, Brighton, Arsenal and Everton
PPM is their 19/20 points per match
Man City
£6.0m GK Ederson – PPM 3.6
£4.5m Def Garcia – PPM 2.8
Garcia won’t play every game but the price mitigates the risk
Burnley
£5.1m GK Pope – PPM 4.5
£4.3m Def C Long – PPM 2.3
£5.3m Def Tarkowski – PPM 3.8
Brighton
No one
Arsenal
£4.3m GK Martinez – PPM 4.3
£5.3m Def C Tierney – PPM 2.3
Everton
£4.3m Def Holgate – PPM 2.7