Here’s our FPL best fixtures GW6 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 GW6 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players
Methodology
Were getting near to the point where I will only use 19/20 data but I’m still basing it on 18/19 and making adjustments for current form etc.
The idea is to have 2 fixture ease schedules. 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 have done this by looking at the goals scored last season to rank attacking teams and goals conceded last season to rank defensive teams on a home and away basis. I’ve then applied a factor against the average goals home and away. I have adjusted some of the factors if a team over or under performed their expected goals by a considerable margin but that was only in a low number of cases. For the promoted teams I have tried to find a proxy team from 18/19 teams and used their data although there are some adjustments as we get a look at them. I’ve also made subjective adjustments for transfer activity. I will keep using last seasons data adjusted until I feel there is enough to move onto this seasons.
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.
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 player suggestions and last seasons PPM and this seasons PPM next to them
Attacking player suggestions
Here I’ve picked out the teams with the best fixtures with an emphasis on the next and early fixtures. So that’s the first 5 above.
Arsenal
£11.0m fwd Aubameyang – 18/19 PPM – 5.7. PPM 19/20 – 7.8
£9.4m mid Pepe – scored a non penalty goal or assist every 139 minutes for Lille in 18/19. 19/20 PPM 2.2
£5.7m mid Ceballos – scored a goal or assist every 415 minutes for Real Madrid in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 3.2
Burnley
£6.7m fwd Barnes – 18/19 PPM – 3.3. PPM 19/20 – 5.8
£6.3m fwd Wood – 18/19 PPM – 3.0 PPM 19/20 – 1.6
Manchester City
£12.3m mid – Sterling – 18/19 PPM 4.2. 19/20 – PPM 7.8
£9.8m mid De Bruyne- 18/19 PPM 3.1 although distorted by substitution apps. PP90 was 5.5. 19/20 – PPM 7.4
£7.8m mid – Bernardo Silva – 18/19 PPM 4.3. 19/20 – PPM 3.5
£7.5m mid – David Silva – 18/19 PPM 4.3. 19/20 – PPM 5.0
£12.1m fwd – Aguero – 18/19 PPM 6.1. 19/20 – PPM 9.2
Bournemouth
£7.8m fwd C Wilson – 18/19 PPM – 5.6. PPM 19/20 – 5.0
£6.3m fwd King – 18/19 PPM – 4.0 PPM 19/20 – 3.0
£7.3m mid Fraser – 18/19 PPM – 4.8 PPM 19/20 – 2.8
£6.0m mid H Wilson – scored a goal or assist every 173 minutes for Derby in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 4.2
Norwich
£7.1m mid Pukki – scored a goal or assist every 101 minutes for Norwich in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 9.8
£4.9m mid Cantwell – scored a goal or assist every 533 minutes for Norwich in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 5.4
£6.0m mid Buendia – scored a goal or assist every 143 minutes for Norwich in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 4.8
A fixture ease schedule for defensive players
Here’s a fantasy premier league best fixtures GW5 graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face over the next 6 gameweeks. There’s player suggestions and last seasons PPM and this seasons PPM next to them.
Defensive player suggestions
I’ve gone for Man City, Arsenal, Norwich and Everton. I’ve avoided Chelsea as they have Liverpool next so it makes little sense to do a transfer this week. Remember the £4.5m ish defenders can be used in rotation.
Man City
After the fiasco that was the loss to Norwich it’s difficult to predict who could be the victims in the next lineup. None of the back 4 had a good game. Walker has Cancelo as a potential replacement. Mendy will be fit in the near future to replace Zinchenko. Fernandinho could replace one of the CBs. Therefore at the moment I’m not going to suggest anyone except Ederson
£5.0m GK Ederson – 18/19 PPM – 4.4. PPM 19/20 – 3.6
Arsenal
It’s not going well for Arsenal defensively to say the least but they do have good fixtures. Unfortunately the fullbacks of Kolasinac and Maitland Niles both face competition in the near future from Tierney and Bellerin respectively. So then it’s down to the GK and a CB
£5.0m GK Leno – 18/19 PPM – 3.1. PPM 19/20 – 3.3
£5.0m Def Sokratis – 18/19 PPM – 2.8 PPM 19/20 – 2.6
Norwich
Again another side not exactly covering themselves in glory defensively at the moment although they have had some tough fixtures. Defenders are cheap enough to be used in rotation.
£4.5m GK Krul – 18/19 PPM – n/a PPM 19/20 – 2.0
£4.5m Def Godfrey – 18/19 PPM – n/a PPM 19/20 – 1.0
£4.5m Def Lewis – 18/19 PPM – n/a PPM 19/20 – 1.8
Everton
£5.6m GK Pickford – 18/19 PPM – 4.2 PPM 19/20 – 3.6
£6.2m Def Digne – 18/19 PPM – 4.5 PPM 19/20 – 4.6
£5.6m Def Mina – 18/19 PPM – 2.8 PPM 19/20 – 3.8
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