Double Gameweek/Blank Gameweek planning

King Cantona

I've held all chips - was hoping for huge fixture congestion and a couple of DGWs - historically I always used the bench boost on first day of the season with a strong squad and held the wildcard until a DGW.

Think I may activate the wildcard now, use the bench boost immediately after and save the free hit chip for the DWG later in the season.

alchemist33

I fear there may not be enough chaos later in the season for those of us with all our chips available to fully benefit. I've come around to thinking FH may be better for a DGW than a blank, but there's probably going to be just two DGWs, where I'll be using TC and BB, meaning there's no other option but using FH for the blank. And do you really want to be muddling over whether to bring in Bournemouth or Stoke players with your valuable chip?

If Kane had been healthy for his recent double, the TC would have been perfect, but that's gone now.

GetWithIt

Has anyone done the spreadsheet for GW28 for confirmed games?

ElTel

GetWithIt wrote: »

Has anyone done the spreadsheet for GW28 for confirmed games?

Here's the Ben Crellin spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Xniaw-tEEiXoyqbGZLzMx6XEcv9TLolfa8GzndvTPw/edit#gid=799946028

km79

GetWithIt wrote: »

Has anyone done the spreadsheet for GW28 for confirmed games?

The only 2 possible games to be postponed are the games
Arsenal vs man city
Man United Vs Chelsea
All the other 8 games go ahead

Second legs of league cup are Tuesday

Iused2likebusts

Arsenal city has been moved to midweek of gw28 so no double

manual_man

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Arsenal city has been moved to midweek of gw28 so no double

*insert Mr Burns "excellent" gif here*

dsmythy

My two cents...

My idea of a plan at the moment is to WC in GW32 with DGW34 in mind. This allows me to build up to the potentially large blank GW31 without worrying about fixing the team immediately after.

Then the free hit could be used either in the blank GW35 or DGW37 whichever looks the more inviting or pressing in the aftermath of DGW34.

Somewhere in there I'll use the BB too I suppose Could squeeze it in in GW33 immediately after WC if it's possible to set up and then transfer into DGW34. I'm not one for having any more than 11/12 DGWers anyway so not bothered with saving BB for that.

dsmythy

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Arsenal city has been moved to midweek of gw28 so no double

It is still conditional on City not being involved in an FA Cup replay match but obviously more likely that doesn't happen than does.

Iused2likebusts

dsmythy wrote: »

It is still conditional on City not being involved in an FA Cup replay match but obviously more likely that doesn't happen than does.

Ye it is as far as I know that date is set for fa cup replays.

Morzadec

dsmythy wrote: »

My two cents...

My idea of a plan at the moment is to WC in GW32 with DGW34 in mind. This allows me to build up to the potentially large blank GW31 without worrying about fixing the team immediately after..

That's exactly my plan.

Slowly build in the next few weeks towards getting some players who wont blank gw 31, bank transfer gw30 and maybe a 4 point hit to bring in 3 more.

Then WC straight after (on gw32) to remove all those dud players and to exploit dgw 34.

I imagine a lot have this plan, although if you still have your FH then a decent option is to forget all that drip feeding of gw31 players and just use FH that week

km79

**** **** ****
That was part of the reason I don’t get aguero in last week
I swear if Jesus injury is actually long term and Pep is lying I’ll go crazy
It has made a WC this week much more appealing

KevIRL

What ye think of (actual) FH for GW38?

km79

KevIRL wrote: »

What ye think of (actual) FH for GW38?

Madness






It is though
Very hard to predict lineups and some weird results

Iused2likebusts

KevIRL wrote: »

What ye think of (actual) FH for GW38?

I think it could be good as you may have a lot of unwanted dgw players in your team from dgw 37. You would want a fair few teams to have something at stake though.

manual_man

so anyone care to hazard a guess how many games will go ahead gw31?

dsmythy

manual_man wrote: »

so anyone care to hazard a guess how many games will go ahead gw31?

According to Crellin's maths it's heavily odds on to be 4-6 games being played going by bookies odds.

Iused2likebusts

Liverpool Watford goes ahead in gw31 now

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Iused2likebusts

If wba fail to make the sf it means no dgws for Liverpool. Rules out the chance of salah TC.

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

If wba fail to make the sf it means no dgws for Liverpool. Rules out the chance of salah TC.

Taht person who triple captained Kane in the SGW a few weeks back is looking like a genius
By the time the DGW come the main TC options could still be in Europe. And the FA cup

wardides

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Wildcard 33 BB 34 FH 35 TC 37.

What are peoples thoughts on the above, now? I still think it works. You're banking on City getting through for a strong TC (SWA & HUD) essentially, and not sure how much you will get out of Bench Boost, but seems most sensible. Just need to try get through until GW33 without using my Wildcard (Arnie, RLC, Stones, Smalling could all be at risk of rotation/dropped).

manual_man

Good god that fa cup draw was troll-worthy of epic proportions

Iused2likebusts

wardides wrote: »

What are peoples thoughts on the above, now? I still think it works. You're banking on City getting through for a strong TC (SWA & HUD) essentially, and not sure how much you will get out of Bench Boost, but seems most sensible. Just need to try get through until GW33 without using my Wildcard (Arnie, RLC, Stones, Smalling could all be at risk of rotation/dropped).

If things pan out as they should the gw31 FH would be a waste. I much prefer gw35.

wardides

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

If things pan out as they should the gw31 FH would be a waste. I much prefer gw35.

Yeah plan is to stick to as you said and Free Hit on GW 35.

McBain11

Just on this lads, am I right in saying that GW28 is guaranteed to be unaffected now?

Also, it's gw31 that will likely be the next affected week and those cancelled fixtures will be pushed to gw34/37 depending? Is that an accurate enough summation of what's happening without going to the google excel chart.

Just trying to get my head 100 percent around it

dsmythy

McBain11 wrote: »

Just on this lads, am I right in saying that GW28 is guaranteed to be unaffected now?

Also, it's gw31 that will likely be the next affected week and those cancelled fixtures will be pushed to gw34/37 depending? Is that an accurate enough summation of what's happening without going to the google excel chart.

Just trying to get my head 100 percent around it

If City are forced into an FA Cup replay their GW28 game is under threat. The GW31 games should end up landing in those two GWs

shineon23

Ok, long post incoming.

For the last few weeks I had been planning on building up a few players for the blanks in GW31.
Then
wildcard: gw33
Benchboost: gw34 for 13-15 DGW-ers
Free hit: gw37 for 11 DGW-ers

But I'm wondering is there any point to this. And should I just use free hit for gw31 to get 11 starters. Apart from Liverpool players and Mariappa (enabler at 4.1), I won't really want any players from the teams involved long term. And I'll be using up my transfers until gw31 on these players I don't want long term.

When roughly should we learn the teams that are likely to have doubles in gw37?

As in I'm trying to figure out if I would already have close 11 players with a double in gw37 in my squad already and use my transfers between gw34 and gw37 to get up 11 double gameweekers.

Potential blanks in gw35 may affect this but if I have close to 11 players for this week I reckon I'll be ok.

Anyone looking at something similar to this?
Or thoughts on this?

Iused2likebusts

shineon23 wrote: »

Ok, long post incoming.

For the last few weeks I had been planning on building up a few players for the blanks in GW31.
Then
wildcard: gw33
Benchboost: gw34 for 13-15 DGW-ers
Free hit: gw37 for 11 DGW-ers

But I'm wondering is there any point to this. And should I just use free hit for gw31 to get 11 starters. Apart from Liverpool players and Mariappa (enabler at 4.1), I won't really want any players from the teams involved long term. And I'll be using up my transfers until gw31 on these players I don't want long term.

When roughly should we learn the teams that are likely to have doubles in gw37?

As in I'm trying to figure out if I would already have close 11 players with a double in gw37 in my squad already and use my transfers between gw34 and gw37 to get up 11 double gameweekers.

Potential blanks in gw35 may affect this but if I have close to 11 players for this week I reckon I'll be ok.

Anyone looking at something similar to this?
Or thoughts on this?

Thats not a long post;)
Ive been thinking gw 35 will be better for FH than 31 or 37. We will know more about the layout of fixtures after the weekend. We will know after fa cup qf gw 31 about the gw 37 doubles. Im going to make a lot of assumptions here to give an example of how things could pan out. Fa cup qfinalist are city, utd, spurs , chelsea, wba, sheff wed,brighton, leicester.
Fa cup sfinalists are city, utd, spurs and leicester.
Assuming all GW 31 blanks become dgw 34 and gw 35 blanks become dgw 37 the fixture list is this.
Gw 31
Huddersfield Palace
Swansea southampton
Liverpool Watford
Stoke Everton
Dgw 34
Utd, City, West ham, brighton, Spurs, newcastle, leicester arsenal, burnley, chelsea, bournemouth, wba all have a dgw. Liverpool play bournemouth at home but dont have a double so assume salah will remain in most squads.
Gw 35
Arsenal west ham
everton newcastle
stoke burnley
watford palace
wba liverpool
Chelsea huddrsfield
DGW 37
bournemouth , utd, brighton, spurs, leicester, southampton , city, swansea all have a double. These will have a double double so probably the core of your wildcard.
So your wildcard team to BB I assume is 14 dgw and salah. Lets say 3 spurs, 2 city, 2 chelsea, 2 utd, 1 bournemouth, 1 leicester, 1 arsenal, 1 burnley, 1 west ham.
So gw 34 14 dgw players and salah
In gw 35 you will only have salah, 2 chelsea, 1 arsenal,1 burnley and 1 west ham . 6 players now of course you can make transfers but you are taking out gw 37 double players which impacts you in 37.

Then in gw 37 assuming you use FH in gw 35 you have 9 dgw players in play and 2 fts.
The fixtures that go ahead in gw 35 should also be more attractive in gw 35 over 31. FH team for 31 something like this
Pickford
vvd naughton bauer
salah shaqiri walcott zaha
ayew firmino niasse
Is something like that going to make huge gains on the likely team even with just 6/7 players you can put out. Salah will be the default captain which also limits potential damage.
GW 35 will have more good teams with good fixtures and its at a much more awkward time being between two doubles.

shineon23

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Thats not a long post;)
.

,This is a long post
Is how I read that line.

I wrote mine on the phone thought it was huge :pac:

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Thats not a long post;)
Ive been thinking gw 35 will be better for FH than 31 or 37. We will know more about the layout of fixtures after the weekend. We will know after fa cup qf gw 31 about the gw 37 doubles. Im going to make a lot of assumptions here to give an example of how things could pan out. Fa cup qfinalist are city, utd, spurs , chelsea, wba, sheff wed,brighton, leicester.
Fa cup sfinalists are city, utd, spurs and leicester.
Assuming all GW 31 blanks become dgw 34 and gw 35 blanks become dgw 37 the fixture list is this.
Gw 31
Huddersfield Palace
Swansea southampton
Liverpool Watford
Stoke Everton
Dgw 34
Utd, City, West ham, brighton, Spurs, newcastle, leicester arsenal, burnley, chelsea, bournemouth, wba all have a dgw. Liverpool play bournemouth at home but dont have a double so assume salah will remain in most squads.
Gw 35
Arsenal west ham
everton newcastle
stoke burnley
watford palace
wba liverpool
Chelsea huddrsfield
DGW 37
bournemouth , utd, brighton, spurs, leicester, southampton , city, swansea all have a double. These will have a double double so probably the core of your wildcard.
So your wildcard team to BB I assume is 14 dgw and salah. Lets say 3 spurs, 2 city, 2 chelsea, 2 utd, 1 bournemouth, 1 leicester, 1 arsenal, 1 burnley, 1 west ham.
So gw 34 14 dgw players and salah
In gw 35 you will only have salah, 2 chelsea, 1 arsenal,1 burnley and 1 west ham . 6 players now of course you can make transfers but you are taking out gw 37 double players which impacts you in 37.

Then in gw 37 assuming you use FH in gw 35 you have 9 dgw players in play and 2 fts.
The fixtures that go ahead in gw 35 should also be more attractive in gw 35 over 31. FH team for 31 something like this
Pickford
vvd naughton bauer
salah shaqiri walcott zaha
ayew firmino niasse
Is something like that going to make huge gains on the likely team even with just 6/7 players you can put out. Salah will be the default captain which also limits potential damage.
GW 35 will have more good teams with good fixtures and its at a much more awkward time being between two doubles.

Wow, that is exactly and a lot more than what I was looking for, that'll take some digesting tomorrow.

I'm concentrating on one private league and I'm pretty sure very few of them will play the free hit or benchboost correctly/optimally. Some have already used one or the other.
I'm being that guy and started a spreadsheet on them

Going on your predictions I think I'll be very close to fielding 11 in GW35. Especially if I know most of the fixtures that will go ahead in GW35 prior to me playing my wildcard.
I'd be hoping to not make a transfer in GW34 while playing bench boost so as to have 2 FT's carrying into GW 35 (If I don't use the free hit in GW35)

Will plan on doing the same for GW37 to get as many DGW-ers as possible (if I'm not using free hit there)

I might not beat my rivals on inspired captain picks but I'll give it a good shot of beating them with simple maths, by trying to have more players getting minutes in, than the other people in my league

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Thats not a long post;)
Ive been thinking gw 35 will be better for FH than 31 or 37. We will know more about the layout of fixtures after the weekend. We will know after fa cup qf gw 31 about the gw 37 doubles. Im going to make a lot of assumptions here to give an example of how things could pan out. Fa cup qfinalist are city, utd, spurs , chelsea, wba, sheff wed,brighton, leicester.
Fa cup sfinalists are city, utd, spurs and leicester.
Assuming all GW 31 blanks become dgw 34 and gw 35 blanks become dgw 37 the fixture list is this.
Gw 31
Huddersfield Palace
Swansea southampton
Liverpool Watford
Stoke Everton
Dgw 34
Utd, City, West ham, brighton, Spurs, newcastle, leicester arsenal, burnley, chelsea, bournemouth, wba all have a dgw. Liverpool play bournemouth at home but dont have a double so assume salah will remain in most squads.
Gw 35
Arsenal west ham
everton newcastle
stoke burnley
watford palace
wba liverpool
Chelsea huddrsfield
DGW 37
bournemouth , utd, brighton, spurs, leicester, southampton , city, swansea all have a double. These will have a double double so probably the core of your wildcard.
So your wildcard team to BB I assume is 14 dgw and salah. Lets say 3 spurs, 2 city, 2 chelsea, 2 utd, 1 bournemouth, 1 leicester, 1 arsenal, 1 burnley, 1 west ham.
So gw 34 14 dgw players and salah
In gw 35 you will only have salah, 2 chelsea, 1 arsenal,1 burnley and 1 west ham . 6 players now of course you can make transfers but you are taking out gw 37 double players which impacts you in 37.

Then in gw 37 assuming you use FH in gw 35 you have 9 dgw players in play and 2 fts.
The fixtures that go ahead in gw 35 should also be more attractive in gw 35 over 31. FH team for 31 something like this
Pickford
vvd naughton bauer
salah shaqiri walcott zaha
ayew firmino niasse
Is something like that going to make huge gains on the likely team even with just 6/7 players you can put out. Salah will be the default captain which also limits potential damage.
GW 35 will have more good teams with good fixtures and its at a much more awkward time being between two doubles.

I agree with ye on FH 31
I’ve already used it and I hope those that haven’t play it then
I’ll have 3 pool VVD, firmino and captain salah . And I’ll Shaq and shawcross so I’m up to 5 already . I’ll have a keeper too. So with a bit of luck I’ll have damn near 11 without even making a transfer .
Illl tell you what really jumped out at me on your analysis though
Pool have Bournemouth at home 34
Salah will not be widely captained
I know what I’m thinking now ..........

Iused2likebusts

km79 wrote: »

I agree with ye on FH 31
I’ve already used it and I hope those that haven’t play it then
I’ll have 3 pool VVD, firmino and captain salah . And I’ll Shaq and shawcross so I’m up to 5 already . I’ll have a keeper too. So with a bit of luck I’ll have damn near 11 without even making a transfer .
Illl tell you what really jumped out at me on your analysis though
Pool have Bournemouth at home 34
Salah will not be widely captained
I know what I’m thinking now ..........

With no wildcard left like myself I wouldn't go more than 8 players in gw 31 as every player you have in 31 doesn't have a dgw 34. So let's say you get 11 out in 31 you will only have 4 dgw and 3 FTS for 34.

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

With no wildcard left like myself I wouldn't go more than 8 players in gw 31 as every player you have in 31 doesn't have a dgw 34. So let's say you get 11 out in 31 you will only have 4 dgw and 3 FTS for 34.

Yeah there is that in it alright
At this stage I’ll have around that and will be hoping to carry a FT after it as well
I’m not buying in anymore players I won’t want after 31
I already have a stoke defender
Why do I have a stoke defender

Shedite27

DGW's are a fools gold. They're super for the supserstars (see Kane/Sanchez last year), but just full of rotation and misery for the other players that we tear up our teams to get in.

Mint Sauce

Wow. Even looking at the last page, makes my head hurt!

km79

City more or less through
There will be soon be tough decisions to be made on aguero and maybe sterling

Iused2likebusts

km79 wrote: »

City more or less through
There will be soon be tough decisions to be made on aguero and maybe sterling

At least they will go full strength against Chelsea in gw 29 now. The 2nd leg is 3 days after that.

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

At least they will go full strength against Chelsea in gw 29 now. The 2nd leg is 3 days after that.

The league will be won too around the blanks and DGW so will probably start to unload then
Certainly can’t TC
Which brings me back to Liverpool Vs Bournemouth gw34 when salah will be captained by very few .....

Iused2likebusts

km79 wrote: »

The league will be won too around the blanks and DGW so will probably start to unload then
Certainly can’t TC
Which brings me back to Liverpool Vs Bournemouth gw34 when salah will be captained by very few .....

I think its midweek gw 32 and 33 for cl qf and midweek gw 35 and 36 for cl sf. City assets could be useless by then alright.

893bet

If you use your free hit does your free transfer bank?

km79

893bet wrote: »

If you use your free hit does your free transfer bank?

No

the whole year inn

Some quality posts.
These game weeks are a complete mine field.I have used my Free Hit and wild card and those chips have been a success. Now I need to plan for these weeks .DGW never work for me or anyone really.Dumping Sterling is high risk move or any city players.Are people seriously going with out city cover?

FutureGuy

I’ve learned my lesson from the last two seasons. Quality over quantity.

shineon23

FutureGuy wrote: »

I’ve learned my lesson from the last two seasons. Quality over quantity.

Quantity over quality has won me my leagues in those 2 seasons.

Well a mixture of both, but focused on having an many big hitters and starters as possible with decent fixtures. But everyone with doubles, I think Josh King was my only exception last season, maybe Mahrez the season before.

It will be tougher this season as my team value isn't near as high and previous years but it'll be the way I'll be trying to line out for the run in.

I look at it, as simple as if I have players with more matches, more minutes = more potential opportunity to get points, over people I want to beat.
It's worked well for me in the past, so I will be continuing that way.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Any updates on confirmed fixtures for 31 yet lads?

dsmythy

MrMac84 wrote: »

Any updates on confirmed fixtures for 31 yet lads?

Next FA Cup round has to be played first. Liverpool and Stoke games are on for sure that's all we know.

normanoffside

Bournemouth vs WBA is on in GW 31. Swansea vs Southampton is a blank.

ElTel

No DGWs for Liverpool.

ShaneU

If Spurs and United win then only Liverpool players are worth getting in for 31 imo

Necronomicon

I've been quite conservative with my chips - I have all of my WC, TC, BB, and FH still to use. I haven't been putting much time into DGW/BGW planning up to now, but I'm starting to give it more thought. A rough idea of what I'm thinking:

BGW31: Ignore, maybe try to have 2FT for that week.
GW33: WC (with an eye towards DGW37 as well as 34)
DGW34: TC or BB
BGW35: FH
DGW37: BB or TC

Am I missing anything important, or does this seem like a solid enough plan?