Double Gameweek Planning

Iused2likebusts

Good chance of all the quarter finalists being from the PL. Dgw 34 is going to be huge this year.

CSF

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Good chance of all the quarter finalists being from the PL. Dgw 34 is going to be huge this year.

Reckon you're looking probably at 4 GW 30 games and 6 DGW games.

Ziegler1988

FA Cup 5th round draw:
Chelsea v Man City
Reading v Peterborough/WBA
Watford v Leeds
Shrewsbury v ManU
Blackburn v Liverpool/West Ham
Spurs v Palace
Arsenal v Hull
Bournemouth v Everton

So that leaves us with the following guaranteed GW30 matches:
Stoke v Soton
Leicester v Newcastle
Bournemouth v Swansea or Sunderland v Everton

Arsenal v WBA, ManU v Palace, and West Ham v Watford all feature one side that's going to be a pretty big favourite to have a blank

Iused2likebusts

CSF wrote: »

Reckon you're looking probably at 4 GW 30 games and 6 DGW games.

Us early wildcarders need a big Dgw in 34. Even if it's 5dgw games 10 teams it should be easy enough to field 11 Dgw players.

CSF

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Us early wildcarders need a big Dgw in 34. Even if it's 5dgw games 10 teams it should be easy enough to field 11 Dgw players.

Kinda regretting using the bench boost now.

Iused2likebusts

CSF wrote: »

Kinda regretting using the bench boost now.

I'm thinking the bench boost could be useful to allow you play some big guns that don't have a double.

Western Pomise

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Hi folks,am not too aware of when and who look most likely to have DGW's soon....but lads here seem have it well sussed and are mentioning GW 25 and to a greater extent GW 30.

Could ye please give me a quick appraisal of how well or badly my current squad is fixed..esp with GW 30 in mind.
Have used up 2 Ft this wk but have 4m in bank for future needs.
Butland. McCarthy
Alder Cresswell Targett Nyom. Simpson
Antonio Payet. Ozil. Alli. Wijnaldum
Kane. Lukaku. Aguero

Know 3 Hammers prob dodgy but Antonio in great form.

Really appreciate any advice.Thanks.

You could do with getting some Leicester coverage,apart from at the back.

Chesty08

Anyone willing to give advice on my current situation & help me out with planning.

Still have all chips & WC with 4mil in bank.

Squad.
DDG Myhill
Dawson Berty Simpson Bellerin Ward
Ozil Payet Firmino Willian Stanislas
Aguero Ighalo Lukaku

With DGW & Blanks going to be a plenty how is my squad looking & where could I improve.

No FT's this week but heavily thinking of -4 for Sanchez for Willian or Ozil.

Or should I hold til Tursday & get a Man City midfielder?

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Us early wildcarders need a big Dgw in 34. Even if it's 5dgw games 10 teams it should be easy enough to field 11 Dgw players.

Unless I'm missing something I'm hoping for a big dgw too though.

Its not all about numbers of doublers, it's about having the right ones - key guys from smaller teams or a guy on a run of form.

A lot of the big teams having doubles kinda cancels out. Everyone will have the Arsenal or City high ownership players even those doing no planning. It was Matty Philips and Benteke that made the huge difference last year.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Are ye aiming to have 11 playing on the blanking weeks? I can't figure out how to manage it without hits.

Iused2likebusts

FHFC wrote: »

Unless I'm missing something I'm hoping for a big dgw too though.

Its not all about numbers of doublers, it's about having the right ones - key guys from smaller teams or a guy on a run of form.

A lot of the big teams having doubles kinda cancels out. Everyone will have the Arsenal or City high ownership players even those doing no planning. It was Matty Philips and Benteke that made the huge difference last year.

Those with a wildcard dont need to worry if there were only 8 teams with a double you could stock up with 15 dgw players and play the wildcard the week after to fix your team. Us early wildcarders need a big dgw with lots of the players the majority already have to offset the advantage a wildcarder will have.

Ziegler1988

Us late WCers could also WC GW36 BB GW37 if it looks like we're well set for DGW34. Wouldn't have to worry about ruining squad in that scenario but it's also leaving it late in terms of a WC boost

Lemlin

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Those with a wildcard dont need to worry if there were only 8 teams with a double you could stock up with 15 dgw players and play the wildcard the week after to fix your team. Us early wildcarders need a big dgw with lots of the players the majority already have to offset the advantage a wildcarder will have.

My plan might be to wildcard the week before and bench boost the week of the wildcard with 15 strong DGW starters wildcarder in.

That means I'd have points from 30 players effectively that week.

Bleating Lamb

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Hi folks,am not too aware of when and who look most likely to have DGW's soon....but lads here seem have it well sussed and are mentioning GW 25 and to a greater extent GW 30.

Could ye please give me a quick appraisal of how well or badly my current squad is fixed..esp with GW 30 in mind.
Have used up 2 Ft this wk but have 4m in bank for future needs.
Butland. McCarthy
Alder Cresswell Targett Nyom. Simpson
Antonio Payet. Ozil. Alli. Wijnaldum
Kane. Lukaku. Aguero

Know 3 Hammers prob dodgy but Antonio in great form.

Really appreciate any advice.Thanks.

Just bumping this up.....feel free to assess my squad lads:)......thanks.

Ziegler1988

For GW30, people should be planning to get Leicester and Southampton players, other than that it's just speculation. I'm not going to worry about it until we know more, I'd rather Sanchez even with GW30 blank than try to be clever and get Ayew in now only for Bournemouth to beat Everton

dahat

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

For GW30, people should be planning to get Leicester and Southampton players, other than that it's just speculation. I'm not going to worry about it until we know more, I'd rather Sanchez even with GW30 blank than try to be clever and get Ayew in now only for Bournemouth to beat Everton

I plan to sell Baines for a Saints defender for 25,27,30 as FHCL is back in 25 & 30.

Firmino next out the door as well I'd say possibly for Gw25 as well.

FHFC

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Us late WCers could also WC GW36 BB GW37 if it looks like we're well set for DGW34. Wouldn't have to worry about ruining squad in that scenario but it's also leaving it late in terms of a WC boost

It the big shift in the team between possibly 4 game GW30 to huge DGW34 where i think I'll be playing mine.

Assuming there's no DGW 25 or 26 I think I'll be shaping towards putting out a strong 11 in 30, with the option of selling any big hitter even, then wildcard in 31 or maybe make it to 32 setting the team up (bench players, 4th mid etc) for 34.

There'll also be a blank, possibly a big enough one, in 35 for the cup semis, so the wildcard team can be set to have (or be able to accomodate) bench fodder with games in 35.

Whenever you wildcard youre gonna want to bank in 34 and have 2 FTs to sort yourself for 35. Then you've only got another 2 transfers to sort doublers for 37 which could also have 6 or 8 teams with doubles the way the cup is going for the Prem teams!

dahat

dahat wrote: »

I plan to sell Baines for a Saints defender for 25,27,30 as FHCL is back in 25 & 30.

Firmino next out the door as well I'd say possibly for Gw25 as well.

Dump that Firmino plan for 25...

Iused2likebusts

Long complicated post warning:eek:
I had a look at the 3 blanks gw 27,30 and 35 and looked at what each time requires to have a fixture on each week. Unfortunately I cant do fancy tables so the info going across is gw 27, 30 qfinal weekend and 35 sfinal weekend

Arsenal- gw 27 utd , gw30 wba both need to be knocked out by the qf for fixture to go ahead, gw 35 sunderland arsenal need to be knocked out by sf
Villa - stoke , Spurs spurs need to be knocked out, sou game goes ahead
Bour- Watford , Swansea bour need to lose, Che both need to be knocked out
Chelsea- Sou A, Liv A both need to lose, Bourn both need to be knocked out
Palace- wba, Utd both need to lose, everton both need to be knocked out
Spurs - Swansea, Villa spurs need to lose, WBA both need to be knocked out
West ham- Sunderland, Watford both need to lose, Utd both need to lose
WBA- Palace, Arsenal both need to be knocked out, spurs both need to lose
Liverpool- Blank, chelsea both need to lose, newcastle pool need to lose
Everton- Blank, sunderland everton need to lose, Palace both need to lose
city- Blank, norwich man city need to lose, stoke man city need to lose
utd- Arsenal, palace both need to lose, west ham both need to lose
Newcastle- Blank, Leicester, liverpool pool need to lose
sunderland- w ham, everton everton need to lose, arsenal ars need to lose
Stoke- villa, southampton, city man city need to lose
swansea- spurs, bournemouth bour need to lose, leicester
southampton- chelsea, stoke, villa
watford-bournemouth, w ham both need to lose, norwich watf need to lose
Norwich- leicester, city m city need to lose, watford watf need to lose
Leicester- norwich, west ham, swansea
The key thing to take from all that is that leicester and southampton are currently the only 2 teams with a guaranteed fixture in 27,30,35. If chelsea can beat city stoke would also have a fixture in all 3 gws

Chesty08

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

For GW30, people should be planning to get Leicester and Southampton players, other than that it's just speculation. I'm not going to worry about it until we know more, I'd rather Sanchez even with GW30 blank than try to be clever and get Ayew in now only for Bournemouth to beat Everton

Have both defensive cover here. Might go with Sanchez.

Ozil or Willian to come out?

CSF

Busts you are a forum treasure.

FHFC

CSF wrote: »

Busts you are a forum treasure.

And all done in biro on the back of a fag packet and a Daily Mirror fixtures pull out......

SteelyDanJalapeno

Back on the Vardez train so

So so many games relying on both teams to be knocked out to go ahead.

Gonna be skinny weeks

km79

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Back on the Vardez train so

So so many games relying on both teams to be knocked out to go ahead.

Gonna be skinny weeks

yeah I think vardy will be back in soon for lukaku for me

MaroonAndGreen

Is GW27 going to lose anymore teams than Liverpool, City, Everton and Newcastle? Is it possible?

FHFC

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Is GW27 going to lose anymore teams than Liverpool, City, Everton and Newcastle? Is it possible?

No. The only teams missing are the League Cup finalists and their opponents.

MaroonAndGreen

FHFC wrote: »

No. The only teams missing are the League Cup finalists and their opponents.

And is it possible that there will be a double GW before GW30?

So Kevin De Bruyne is obviously being transferred out ASAP. If there isnt a DGW before GW30 then I'm going to be focusing my next few weeks on eliminating Liverpool and Everton players so I will have eleven for GW27.. Moreno, Barkley goodbye. Holding on to Firmino, Lukaku (depending on Vardy's form as he has no blanks GWs left, may get him) and Aguero.

After this I will make do with what I have til GW32 - GW33 and then play the wildcard for the double game-week in GW34 (bench boost) and keeping in mind that GW35 is going to have 3-4 blank games due to FA Cup semi finals.

Am I missing anything in my plan guys? Please help

Iused2likebusts

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

And is it possible that there will be a double GW before GW30?

So Kevin De Bruyne is obviously being transferred out ASAP. If there isnt a DGW before GW30 then I'm going to be focusing my next few weeks on eliminating Liverpool and Everton players so I will have eleven for GW27.. Moreno, Barkley goodbye. Holding on to Firmino, Lukaku (depending on Vardy's form as he has no blanks GWs left, may get him) and Aguero.

After this I will make do with what I have til GW32 - GW33 and then play the wildcard for the double game-week in GW34 (bench boost) and keeping in mind that GW35 is going to have 3-4 blank games due to FA Cup semi finals.

Am I missing anything in my plan guys? Please help

Ye that's the general plan. There won't be a double between gw 27 and gw 30 and some combo of Liverpool City and everton should have 2 blanks in 4 gws.

MaroonAndGreen

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Ye that's the general plan. There won't be a double between gw 27 and gw 30 and some combo of Liverpool City and everton should have 2 blanks in 4 gws.

Also, when is it advised to treble captain Aguero? Leaving GW34 for bench boost, and City have Chelsea away that week anyway so probably dont want to be relying on a goal at Stamford Bridge

F1ngers

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Also, when is it advised to treble captain Aguero? Leaving GW34 for bench boost, and City have Chelsea away that week anyway so probably dont want to be relying on a goal at Stamford Bridge

The same Stamford Bridge where they've conceded 7 in their last 3 home games?

And 2 cleans sheets all season at home?

MaroonAndGreen

F1ngers wrote: »

The same Stamford Bridge where they've conceded 7 in their last 3 home games?

Yeah, this is going to be in ten weeks time, im guessing Chelsea will be better at the back

F1ngers

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Yeah, this is going to be in ten weeks time, im guessing Chelsea will be better at the back

I doubt it, haven't been reliable in defence all season.

patmac

So it doesn't look like DGW25 is going to happen or we would have heard by now?

CSF

patmac wrote: »

So it doesn't look like DGW25 is going to happen or we would have heard by now?

Yeah I imagine we would have heard.

FHFC

CSF wrote: »

Yeah I imagine we would have heard.

Doesnt look good. I'd have expectedit to be announced today if it was on.

Gonna be hard to fit these games in. If both Liv/Eve or MCI fail to reach the Cup QF then the games could go into the DGW34 pot.

If none of the any of them fail to make the semis they can go in DGW37. But if any of them do make the Cul semi it's gonna be a bit of a pile up.

If none of Liverpool or City are involved in the latter stages of the CL/Europa there are midweeks in 32, 33, 35 & 36 but there tends to be a prohibition on PL games going in CL midweeks. Not sure whether it applies to, for example CL semi finals week if no English teams are involved.

The guy with the spreadsheet has worked out the chances (presumably from bookies odds) of teams having a blank in GW30. Basically a new fangled version of Busts fag packet work.

Odds (%) of a GW 30 blank
Leicester 0
Newcastle 0
Southampton 0
Stoke 0
Bournemouth 44.44%
Swansea 44.44%
Man City 52.38%
Norwich 52.38%
Everton 61.90%
Sunderland 61.90%
Spurs 71.43%
Aston Villa 71.43%
Chelsea 72.73%
Liverpool 72.73%
Watford 89.09%
West Ham 89.09%
Arsenal 94.71%
West Brom 94.71%
Man Utd 94.87%
Crystal Palace 94.87%

spock.

City triple GW37 :pac:

MaroonAndGreen

spock. wrote: »

City triple GW37 :pac:

Imagine, Aguero

Iused2likebusts

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Imagine, Aguero

Then goes off injured after 5 mins of the first game

Shane St.

CLIFFS on a strategy?
Should we be buying City and Pool players now. Or wait till the GW 28 blank?

Shane St.

CLIFFS on a strategy?
Should we be buying City and Pool players now. Or wait till the GW 28 blank?

MaroonAndGreen

Shane St. wrote:

CLIFFS on a strategy? Should we be buying City and Pool players now. Or wait till the GW 28 blank?

I'd be careful not to leave yourself decimated for GW27..

Shedite27

Yeah peoples strategy for DGW's at the moment should be....
1) Ensure you have 11 players for GW27 (no games for Everton, Liverpool, City or Newcastle)
2) Ensure you have 11 players for GW30 (worst case scenarios, only 3 games that week, best case 7 games)
3) Start loading up for GW34 (Double - for games missed from GW30)
4) Start loading up for GW37 (Double - for Eve, Liv, City, New)

This is all subject to confirmation, but going on previous season s and UEFA rules, that's the most likely.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Is it only Southampton and Leceister guaranteed games in both gw27 and gw30 so far?

MaroonAndGreen

Shedite27 wrote:

Yeah peoples strategy for DGW's at the moment should be.... 1) Ensure you have 11 players for GW27 (no games for Everton, Liverpool, City or Newcastle) 2) Ensure you have 11 players for GW30 (worst case scenarios, only 3 games that week, best case 7 games) 3) Start loading up for GW34 (Double - for games missed from GW30) 4) Start loading up for GW37 (Double - for Eve, Liv, City, New)

I'm expecting it to be near impossible to have eleven players on both 27 & 30 without taking 1-2 4 point hits in places, which is a risk as your new player basically needs a good week to make it worth it

Iused2likebusts

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Is it only Southampton and Leceister guaranteed games in both gw27 and gw30 so far?

Stoke aswell

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Stoke aswell

Swansea are the next best bet then. All that is needed is Everton to beat Bournemouth in the Cup.

SteelyDanJalapeno

I'm not in great shape right now for the blanks, got 2 players from the 4 nearly guaranteed sides (Lec, South, Stk ans Swa) plan on maybe getting another 2 or 3 players in from these sides, probably Vardy (Rom out), Targett and Ayew.

While keeping my WC for the double week and hopefully so more teams become guaranteed for the blanks that I already have cover for.

SteelyDanJalapeno

I'm not in great shape right now for the blanks, got 2 players from the 4 nearly guaranteed sides (Lec, South, Stk and Swa) plan on maybe getting another 2 or 3 players in from these sides, probably Vardy (Rom out), Targett and Ayew.

While keeping my WC for the double week and hopefully so more teams become guaranteed for the blanks that I already have cover for.

CSF

However likely Swansea are, Bournemouth are the same since they'd be playing each other.

km79

CSF wrote: »

However likely Swansea are, Bournemouth are the same since they'd be playing each other.

lovely I've currently got a swans and bournemouth defender as well as a stoke one and will have Forster in goals by 27!