FPL best fixtures GW8 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players

Fantasy Premier League, fixture ease schedule

Here’s our FPL best fixtures GW8 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 GW8 – a fixture ease schedule for attacking players and defensive players

This was written before the Monday Man Utd v Arsenal game

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 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 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 attacking player suggestions below.




FPL best fixtures GW8

Attacking player suggestions

Here I’ve picked out the teams with the best fixtures with an emphasis on the next and early fixtures. Thats Everton, Arsenal, Watford and West Ham

I’ve put their 18/19 points per match, their 19/20 points per match and their positional form ranking from my form article for GW7

Everton

£7.9m mid Sigurdsson – 18/19 PPM – 4.8  PPM 19/20 – 2.7 form ranking 27

£7.6m mid  Richarlison– 18/19 PPM – 4.4  PPM 19/20 – 4.4 form ranking 16

Arsenal

Monday night v Man Utd’s stats not included

£11.0m fwd Aubameyang – 18/19 PPM – 5.7  PPM 19/20 – 7.3 form ranking 12

£9.4m mid Pepe – scored a goal or assist every 101 minutes for Lille in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 3.2 form ranking 8

£5.6m mid Ceballos – scored a goal or assist every 415 minutes for Madrid in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 3.0 form ranking 94

Watford

Unfortunately no one at the moment

West Ham

£7.4m fwd Haller – scored a goal or assist every 91 minutes for Frankfurt in 18/19. 19/20 PPM – 5.3 form ranking 6

£6.9m mid Anderson – 18/19 PPM – 4.3 PPM 19/20 – 3.8 form ranking 21

£6.0m mid Yarmalenko – 18/19 PPM – 2.1 PPM 19/20 – 5.5 form ranking 53

Yarmalenkos 18/19 PPMs were distorted by sub apps.

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.




FPL best fixtures GW8

Defensive player suggestions
I’ve gone for Arsenal, West Ham and Man City.

Arsenal

These stats don’t include the Monday night game v Man Utd

With the fullbacks in transition I’m going to go for Leno and Sokratis

£5.0m GK Leno – 18/19 PPM – 3.3. PPM 19/20 – 3.0

£5.0m Def Sokratis – 18/19 PPM – 2.6. PPM 19/20 – 2.2

Man City

With Stones and Laporte injured Otamendi becomes the only safe starter with Mendy replacing Zinchenko but early back from injury and Cancelo potential to replace Walker

£6.1m GK Ederson – 18/19 PPM – 4.4. PPM 19/20 – 4.1

£5.5m Def Otamendi – 18/19 PPM – 3.9. PPM 19/20 – 4.2

West Ham

With Fabianski injured to an unknown extent I’m going for RB Fredericks

£4.5m Def Fredericks – 18/19 PPM – 2.7. PPM 19/20 – 3.4

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