Double Gameweek Planning

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Wow just checked that there gw 37. A league game sat ,Tues, fri, sun. It was in 2006 I wasn't playing this version of the game that year. It's come close to happening a couple of times recently.

Thats why its a bit odd to me that they didn't do the Liverpool and Man City dgws in 25 when they had the chance.

8-10

FHFC wrote: »

Thats why its a bit odd to me that they didn't do the Liverpool and Man City dgws in 25 when they had the chance.

Where would you have fitted the extra Liverpool game in that week? :eek:

km79

arsenal level at half time in the cup.....

Trimm Trabb

km79 wrote: »

arsenal level at half time in the cup.....

Any theories on when an Arsenal replay might be?

SteelyDanJalapeno

0-0 ft

PARlance

FT Arsenal have a replay.

Now... what does that mean?

Shane St.

Another fixture to jam in for arsneal!

ScummyMan

Cat, meet pigeons.

Iused2likebusts

8 or 9th March only chance its the midweek before the next round. Hull currently have a league game then though.

km79

My head hurts
Steve Bruce said its Tuesday March 8th
Alan Pardew also said the same if palace draw

Collie D

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

8 or 9th March only chance its the midweek before the next round. Hull currently have a league game then though.

Think I read a season or two ago that FA Cup takes prededence over league ties.

Necronomicon

Jeff Stelling speculated that it might have to be played the same day as 6th round ties.

Cartman78

Spare a thought for the fella with the Excel sheet

FHFC

With WBA out that means we don't know if Arsenal have a blank till after that replay. If they lose to Hull thats an unexpected extra GW30 match but we won't know till a few days before.

Ziegler1988

Watford v West Ham GW30 postponed

km79

Hoping for an Everton win !
Really really hope it's not a draw or it will make planning impossible

FHFC

km79 wrote: »

Hoping for an Everton win !
Really really hope it's not a draw or it will make planning impossible

Chances are this being game which decides a team which will have a game in 30 it will almost certainly be a draw...

Paully D

A huge downside of Fantasy Premier League is the amount of weight that goes in to DGW's.

Unfortunately it's not possible to have 38 GW's with every team playing once per game week as that would be the fairest and most ideal scenario.

I'm usually on the other side of the fence in situations where those who plan a lot don't get their rewards, but it's a bit unfair on the more "casual" players the amount of planning that's going to be needed to successfully negotiate the DGW's this year especially.

I put a lot of time into the game myself, but yet admittedly have little to no idea how to approach those DGW's.

ScummyMan

2-0 Everton now, Boss Rarkley and Rom with the goals. I'm loath to jinx it but I think that might be that replay worry safely passed.

spock.

Bournemouth - Swansea is our 3rd gameweek 30 fixture.

Iused2likebusts

Lovely that's another 2 players. A lot of the early wildcarders have a Bournemouth and Swansea defender.

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Lovely that's another 2 players. A lot of the early wildcarders have a Bournemouth and Swansea defender.

Yes we do and I shall be welcoming back a certain Icelandic boyo too hopefully

ElTel

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Lovely that's another 2 players. A lot of the early wildcarders have a Bournemouth and Swansea defender.

Yeah the missed pen was a dagger to me. Advantage early WCs, As it stands now I have Butland and Vardez only guaranteed for GW30 and 2 FTs.:(

Ziegler1988

Will be interesting to see what happens in terms of replay date because in theory if Arsenal-Hull (or Man City-Chelsea) was 6th round weekend and the winner drew Everton tomorrow, then Sunderland-Everton would go ahead GW30

ElTel

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Will be interesting to see what happens in terms of replay date because in theory if Arsenal-Hull (or Man City-Chelsea) was 6th round weekend and the winner drew Everton tomorrow, then Sunderland-Everton would go ahead GW30

Wow!
I think Lukaku was still a hold for me anyway to GW29.

iroced

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Watford v West Ham GW30 postponed

Didn't I tell you all about that one ?!! !!? Faith & trust in Watford :cool:.
On the contrary, Arsenal can get lost. Most unreliable team ever (worse as a whole than Lukaku as a captain :rolleyes:... *sigh*...).

Chesty08

Is triple Arsenal looking bad now - particularly having 2 midfielders Ozil & Sanchez?

Where should I startbulking up on my team for these blank / DGW's

Kasper, Myhill
Ivanovic Bellerin Bertrand Ward Simpson
Ozil Sanchez Firmino Payet Stanialas
Aguero Ighalo Vardy

Would appreciate your advise lads

iroced

Chesty08 wrote: »

Is triple Arsenal looking bad now - particularly having 2 midfielders Ozil & Sanchez?

Where should I startbulking up on my team for these blank / DGW's

Kasper, Myhill
Ivanovic Bellerin Bertrand Ward Simpson
Ozil Sanchez Firmino Payet Stanialas
Aguero Ighalo Vardy

Would appreciate your advise lads

WBA got knocked out so we don't know. Have to wait for Arsenal replay. Maybe I overestimated their will to play this comp'. They have a golden opportunity to get back the PL trophy this year so maybe they won't care as much for FA Cup.

If Arsenal lose at Hull, then with 3 Arsenal players, you'll be in a great position for GW30!

Chesty08

iroced wrote: »

WBA got knocked out so we don't know. Have to wait for Arsenal replay. Maybe I overestimated their will to play this comp'. They have a golden opportunity to get back the PL trophy this year so maybe they won't care as much for FA Cup.

If Arsenal lose at Hull, then with 3 Arsenal players, you'll be in a great position for GW30!

So effectively hold off with those 3 for now is a possibility.

Other areas are myhill, ward, Simpson & Ighalo that I need shifting.. Really tempted to WC but would be silly with the BB also available & a DGW coming up.

Might move Ward for a Swans defender?

Ziegler1988

Chesty08 wrote: »

Might move Ward for a Swans defender?

Tottenham and Arsenal away next two, unless you can hide on bench

Iused2likebusts

Villa and spurs goes ahead in gw 30 now. Spurs will also have a fixture in gw 35 as they play wba. No doubles this year for spurs.

spock.

If Spurs and Leicester keep up their form, I can't see many getting rid of all their Spurs and Leicester players to fit in 15 DGWers.

Ziegler1988

We'll find out before next GW deadline anyway, but there's precedent for playing replay only 4/5 days before next round: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Arsenal_F.C._season#FA_Cup

Talk on some Arsenal forums of postponing Swansea match for replay but I'm not sure that would be ideal

Iused2likebusts

Gw 35 isnt going to have too many blanks as two of the fixtures are
West ham V Man utd
Palace V everton
Of the 7 PL teams that can go through to the SF 4 face each other.
If the city result stays as it is there is already 5 games going ahead in gw 35.

siblers

iroced wrote: »

WBA got knocked out so we don't know. Have to wait for Arsenal replay. Maybe I overestimated their will to play this comp'. They have a golden opportunity to get back the PL trophy this year so maybe they won't care as much for FA Cup.

If Arsenal lose at Hull, then with 3 Arsenal players, you'll be in a great position for GW30!

How they approach the replay may depend how they get on against Barca, if they get a hiding by Barca, they'll prob focus on the cup and league.

Iused2likebusts

siblers wrote: »

How they approach the replay may depend how they get on against Barca, if they get a hiding by Barca, they'll prob focus on the cup and league.

I cant see Hull being too keen in the replay either. Its very tight at the top of the championship.

Shedite27

So the GW30 fixtures look like:

On
Leicester V Newcastle
Swansea V Stoke
Bournemouth V Swansea
Villa V Spurs
Norwich V City

Off (Blanks)
Sunderland V Everton
West Ham V Watford
Man Utd V Palace
Liverpool V Chelsea

TBC (pending Arsenal/Hull replay)
Arsenal V West Brom

Shedite27

As an aside, the logic in the article in the OP suggested using a wildcard, and then having a team of 15 players with 2 games in GW34. The teams in questions are the ones with blanks in GW30...
Chelsea
Liverpool
West Ham
Everton
Man Utd
Sunderland
Watford
Palace

Shedite27

Shedite27 wrote: »

So the GW30 fixtures look like:

On
Leicester V Newcastle
Swansea V Stoke
Bournemouth V Swansea
Villa V Spurs
Norwich V City

Off (Blanks)
Sunderland V Everton
West Ham V Watford
Man Utd V Palace
Liverpool V Chelsea

TBC (pending Arsenal/Hull replay)
Arsenal V West Brom

Swansea will be busy!

Iused2likebusts

Shedite27 wrote: »

As an aside, the logic in the article in the OP suggested using a wildcard, and then having a team of 15 players with 2 games in GW34. The teams in questions are the ones with blanks in GW30...
Chelsea
Liverpool
West Ham
Everton
Man Utd
Sunderland
Watford
Palace

you can add city and newcastle to that as they will have gw 27 refixed for 34.
I just cant see it being the bonanza people have been expecting. From those teams it means you have no leicester, spurs players , potentially no arsenal and then some of the better defensive teams with 4 gws to go. 10 or 11 dgw players will be more than enough.
Even those that are thinking of wildcarding after dgw 34 they wont have enough transfers after gw30 to get in the players especially when you consider most of the form players will now be playing in gw30.
Then the last option is going all in for gw 37 but again its more than likely going to be 3 games cancelled so having to get 15 players from 6 teams.

Ziegler1988

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

you can add city and newcastle to that as they will have gw 27 refixed for 34.
I just cant see it being the bonanza people have been expecting. From those teams it means you have no leicester, spurs players , potentially no arsenal and then some of the better defensive teams with 4 gws to go. 10 or 11 dgw players will be more than enough.
Even those that are thinking of wildcarding after dgw 34 they wont have enough transfers after gw30 to get in the players especially when you consider most of the form players will now be playing in gw30.
Then the last option is going all in for gw 37 but again its more than likely going to be 3 games cancelled so having to get 15 players from 6 teams.

On the other hand, gambling with no Spurs or Leicester players and bench boosting could lead to a huge rise since everyone will be holding Alli, Alder, Vardy, and Mahrez (barring injury). I think there'll be some wild point swings over the last 5 GWs

Iused2likebusts

Utd and west ham blank gw 35 assuming Utd get past Shrewsbury.

Ziegler1988

Reading vs. Crystal Palace
Everton vs. Chelsea
Arsenal/Hull vs. Watford
Shrewsbury/Man Utd vs. West Ham

FHFC

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

you can add city and newcastle to that as they will have gw 27 refixed for 34.
I just cant see it being the bonanza people have been expecting. From those teams it means you have no leicester, spurs players , potentially no arsenal and then some of the better defensive teams with 4 gws to go. 10 or 11 dgw players will be more than enough.
Even those that are thinking of wildcarding after dgw 34 they wont have enough transfers after gw30 to get in the players especially when you consider most of the form players will now be playing in gw30.
Then the last option is going all in for gw 37 but again its more than likely going to be 3 games cancelled so having to get 15 players from 6 teams.

I never thought it would be feasible having 15 dgw players. It would be madness to drop high ownership form players just for somebody else with 2 games.

My approach to 34 using a wildcard would have been to try to have the right dgw players to compliment the core of at least 3 or 4 undroppables.

What i mean is the difference in having a bench fodder Newcastle defender with 2 games as one of your bench boost 15 vs having the ability to shuffle the team and have 4 or 5 form defenders with good dgw fixtures.....if that makes sense. Same for the likes of Andros as 5th mid vs being able to fit a proper strong 5 mids with Payet or Lanzini or the like as the dgw player.

I had also been working towards the 30 blank as being almost as important and using the WC after 30 would allow the same approach as above - i.e. going for say VVD rather than a bench fodder type def (Newcastle away to Leicester for example again). Going for 11 players without blanks with the highest chance of points rather than simply trying to field 10 or 11 simply as a number.

Same for dgw34, a lot of focus on how many you'll have bit who the numbers are is going to be more important.

However given the way the gw30 blanks just got a whole lot easier to negotiate I'll need to have another look at it to see if it may potentially be better to keep the wildcard for GW37.

Probably not but as its going to be easy to have a strong 11 for 30 its worth looking at. (I currently have 8 GW30s with 4 fts before then.)

Lemlin

I have 3 Spurs players but them getting knocked out is a disaster re GW30. A lot of people will easily field 11 now.

Iused2likebusts

If palace beat reading or everton beat chelsea. Everton palace will be called off in gw 35. That means Everton have 3 rearranged fixtures to fit in to the last 8 gws. They could have a triple gw.

Ziegler1988

Only team likely to have DGW34 and no blank GW35 going on odds:
Watford

Chelsea will if they lose to Everton

EDIT: Whoops, Man City, Liverpool, Newcastle on that list as well

Benimar

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

If palace beat reading or everton beat chelsea. Everton palace will be called off in gw 35. That means Everton have 3 rearranged fixtures to fit in to the last 8 gws. They could have a triple gw.

Might not be Aguero being triple captained yet:)

Lukaku TC in a triple GW would be either the greatest or worst week ever in FF. There would be no in between with Romelu!

JakeArmitage

have a nice line up for next gameweek with no transfers made, haven't thought yet about the next few gameweeks . What ye reckon I should I have Aquero on the bench too



Forster CHE (H)







Alderweireld SWA (H)




Targett CHE (H)




Huth NOR (H)






Alli SWA (H)




Payet SUN (H)




Özil MUN (A)




Sánchez MUN (A)




Mahrez NOR (H)






Vardy NOR (H)





Kane SWA (H)

the groutch

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

If palace beat reading or everton beat chelsea. Everton palace will be called off in gw 35. That means Everton have 3 rearranged fixtures to fit in to the last 8 gws. They could have a triple gw.

win for Everton, or both Chelsea & Reading will mean only 3 blanks in GW35.