Here’s our FPL wildcard team GW29 article where I pretend I’m using my wildcard. This is to give you transfer suggestions and player picks for GW29 for the upcoming gameweeks rather than just 1 gameweek alone.
FPL wildcard team GW29 – the FFGeek imaginary wildcard
If you join our Patreon subscription site one of the FFGeek contributors does an imaginary wildcard article every gameweek. This weeks it’s an article by Rick Porter last 3 seasons overall ranks were 1k, 30k and 2k. There’s also loads of other features which you can see at the bottom of this article.
Introduction
The idea of this article is to bring together the other articles of the gameweek.
The article is brief and with no stats as there’s loads of information on individual players in the rankings articles:
There’s also:
You can also see who the 10 top FPL managers I follow each week have in their team.
There’s also the bandwagons and sinking ships article where we look at the most transferred in and out players
Then there’s who the FFGeek readers are transferring in and out as well as our captain poll
You can also see our double gameweek 29 article and our article on blank GW31 and our double gameweek scenario planning article
A different imaginary wildcard article
Unfortunately the blanks and double gameweeks ahead make it a difficult time for an imaginary wildcard.
Here’s what the landscape looks like in very basics;
GW29 – double gameweek Man City and Arsenal
GW31 – Blank gameweek 4 fixtures only
GW34 – a double gameweek but potentially also some blanks
GW37 – a double gameweek
For my FPL team I have a 2nd wildcard, a free hit and a bench boost. My plan is likely to be GW29 through a free transfer, GW31 a free hit, GW33 wildcard, GW34 bench boost and GW37 through free transfers
Wildcard team 1 – aiming for the future DGWs
If I was wildcarding this week one way would be to use the free hit for GW31 and then build towards a team of double gameweekers for GW34 and GW37.
The team would look something like this:
the DGW29 players
This is a team which assumes that De Bruyne won’t be fit and is made up mainly of players with future DGWs but also allows for getting 5 players for DGW29 in an Arsenal contingent of Aubamemeyang, Pepe and Leno. For Man City there is Mahrez and Aguero. Both are gambles for gametime but with Burnley in GW30 before the Champions League return leg you could make an assumption that the Burnley game will see the lions share of rotation.
Aubameyang and Pepe are the only real attacking options for me with Arsenal but neither are particularly cheap. Leno is just there fore save points.
The future DGW players
In addition to the Man City players Calvert Lewin, Mooy, Barnes, Holgate, Lascelles, Soyuncu, O’Connell and McCarthy should all have doubles in the future. That’s a good base to build on.
The Others
I find it difficult to conceive of a team without Salah and Alexander Arnold in it.
The other team with good fixtures who you might want to squeeze into this are Wolves with some combination of Doherty, Jimenez and Jota
Wildcard team 2 – focusing on Blank GW31
With this team you focus on the DGW29 and also the blank GW31. You’d then probably use your free hit for DGW34 and then focus with frees for DGW37
Here’s what it could look like
Again this assumed De Bruyne was injured.
DGW29 players
Here I had Aubameyang and Leno as before but downgraded Pepe to Saka in order to accommodate Sterling who didn’t start midweek. Mahrez stays
Blank GW31 players
Effectively these are the rest.
I concentrated on Wolves due to the fixtures so have the double attack of Jimenez and Jota and then Doherty.
3 Liverpool also made sense so Salah and Alexander Arnold are in but for budget I went for Gomez over Robertson who would have been the preference.
Sarr is there from Watford but the rest in McCarthy, Diop and Cathcart are merely cheap fillers
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Early thoughts on the FFGeek team
Monitoring the FA Cup results to determine blank GW31
Defender player rankings for GW29
Fantasy premier league double gameweek 29 announced
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