Here’s our Premier League Fantasy Tips GW26 article where we give our Defender and Goalkeeper player rankings for GW26. There’s a table of stats and commentary on key teams and player transfer suggestions.
Premier League Fantasy Tips GW26 – Defender And Goalkeeper Player Rankings Plus Transfer Suggestions
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The schedule
The schedule ranks the teams by averaging their Goals against and their expected goals against. It is not adjusted for upcoming fixtures. From the free site understat
Player values and stats were as of Wednesday 16 February
Fixture ease ranks the ease of the fixtures in the next 6 gameweeks
CS odds are the bookies odds for a clean sheet given a £1 bet
Pstpnd is the numbers of postponed games which could end up making a double gameweek for the team
xCS% is the % of games where the expected goals against has been less than 1.0
CSs is the number of clean sheets
Player suggestions for GW26
Generally for transfer suggestions, as I said above, I’ve tried to balance a good entry point, defensive strength of the team and upcoming fixture easiness.
Note The blank in 30 is expected to be a gameweek with a number of blanks and therefore I expect most people will free hit. Therefore I have put every team as a blank in GW30
Liverpool
Alexander Arnold is the premium option and a hard player not to have. Great double and good fixtures after
Go for £7.1m Robertson (5.8 PPM) for the double up
£4.9m Matip (4.2 PPM) for cheapness but expect UCL related rotation with Konate and Gomez at the club
Wolves
The best defence outside of Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea. Tough double but a couple of good fixtures afterwards
Semedo is the best option for me. The GK Sa is also having a storming season.
£4.4m Ait Nouri is the cheap option but comes with alot of rotation risk with Marcal and Jonny when match fit and for me not worth the risk
Arsenal
Great double 26 marred by a blank in 27 and Leicester in GW29. 3 more fixtures to be squeezed in elsewhere as well for potential doubles. Looking good defensively and in that group of them and Wolves outside the top 3
GK Ramsdale is a good option
Tierney is the premium attacking option
£4.5m White (4.2 PPM) is the cheap secure option
C Palace
Chelsea ruin the double but Watford, Burnley and Wolves are an attractive 3 fixtures. They are also cheap enough to bench when desired as well
£4.5m Geuhi is my choice
West Ham
Don’t have a double but just look at their fixtures.
Only Coufal for me as the best attacking option. Got completely roasted by Barnes in GW25 which hopefully doesn’t rebound on him
The Fixture Ease Schedule
Here’s the next 6 fixtures as ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face
GK goals saved over expected goals saved per 90 from Fbref
In essence this shows the form shot stoppers so far this season. It compares the per 90 goals saved vs expected goals saved so is a variation on the save% table I normally give. I think you’ll find it quite interesting.
Other Posts
Joseph Crilley’s FPL transfer planner team
Analysing the teams of 12 top FPL managers
The Bandwagons and Sinking Ships
Joseph Crilley’s Transfer Planner and Points Projection Tool
The Fixture Ease Schedules for GW26 and beyond
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