Double Gameweek/Blank Gameweek planning

893bet

Necronomicon wrote: »

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?

Same plan as me basically! TC on game 37 could be tricky due to rotation and things already potentially being decided on the league.

km79

All going well I'll have a keeper for the skinny weeks (Hennessy) and a keeper with one dgw (Adrian )
Be nice if that's little bit of planning works out. Lot can happen yet though..........
Bournemouth losing now makes it more difficult to sell Wilson but I HAVE to get Kane. If city could draw with Wigan and then win replay that will make my decision.........as is stands for 31 I have
Hennessy
Shawcross (and getting VVD or Robertson this week)
Salah shaq
Wilson firmino

I have 2 FT this week and I'll be getting kane . I can go 2 ways -
Sanchez to ibe/doucore
Or sanchez to anyone (probably mahrez ) and aguero to kane ? This will leave me more cash as I may also do Andy king to doucore at some point

One thing I'm not doing is ignoring teams with good fixtures for the next 3 gameweeks just for a gameweek made up of rubbish teams and Liverpool!
Mahrez is a prime example . I also don't have a WC so have to balance out having enough for 31 and enough for BB in a dgw

km79

Very likely after the draw that united city and spurs will be 3 of the semi finalists
Leicster or Chelsea the other
Need to start looking at TC /BB for 34/37 now

Bleating Lamb

km79 wrote: »

Very likely after the draw that united city and spurs will be 3 of the semi finalists
Leicster or Chelsea the other
Need to start looking at TC /BB for 34/37 now

Do the semi finals clash with GW 34?

normanoffside

Ake, Cook or Daniels for #nailedonness and attacking threat?

km79

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Do the semi finals clash with GW 34?

35

Morzadec

Nightmare draw for those of us who have used FH. Likely 4 top six teams in the semis, 35 will be carnage after a dgw 34 where you will want players from these teams in.

Going to be hard to manage this.

Morzadec

normanoffside wrote: »

Ake, Cook or Daniels for #nailedonness and attacking threat?

Daniels surely if funds are no issue

greedygoblin

Been keeping a bit of an eye on the weather forum lately. There seems to be a bit of excitement building over there for some cold weather from the end of next week onwards. If (and a very big if it is) what some of the models are suggesting comes to pass, then we could be having some more blanks/doubles than what we were expecting. One to keep an eye on...

shineon23

greedygoblin wrote: »

Been keeping a bit of an eye on the weather forum lately. There seems to be a bit of excitement building over there for some cold weather from the end of next week onwards. If (and a very big if it is) what some of the models are suggesting comes to pass, then we could be having some more blanks/doubles than what we were expecting. One to keep an eye on...

I choosing to believe that you're looking at the weather forum purely from a fantasy football viewpoint.

Research for Doubles and Blanks is at an all time high. What a time to be alive, this is the type of dedication I can get behind.

Morzadec

Morzadec wrote: »

Daniels surely if funds are no issue

You’re not wrong in suggesting him but he never fails to disappoint.

I think Ake is as likely to put up a score as he is. Possibly even more likely.

km79

Morzadec wrote: »

Nightmare draw for those of us who have used FH. Likely 4 top six teams in the semis, 35 will be carnage after a dgw 34 where you will want players from these teams in.

Going to be hard to manage this.

Yeah 35 is a big worry !

manual_man

Part of me is wondering how much value there'll actually be in dgw players this time round, with a number of the top teams involved on multiple fronts (league/champions league/fa cup) - rotation worries obviously but fatigue could play a part too. It will be very interesting to see how things play out.

manual_man

manual_man wrote: »

Part of me is wondering how much value there'll actually be in dgw players this time round, with a number of the top teams involved on multiple fronts (league/champions league/fa cup) - rotation worries obviously but fatigue could play a part too. It will be very interesting to see how things play out.

It could mostly impact City and Arsenal as City will have the league won and Arsenal may be too far adrift of 4th and therefore concentrate on Europe.

Iused2likebusts

Morzadec wrote: »

Nightmare draw for those of us who have used FH. Likely 4 top six teams in the semis, 35 will be carnage after a dgw 34 where you will want players from these teams in.

Going to be hard to manage this.

Arsenal, Burnley, Newcastle, west ham all have a dgw 34 and a game in 35. Salah, 3 arsenal, Burnley defender and Arnie gives you 6 players for 35. It will be possible to get 8 players out while not overly impacting your gw 37 plans.

Morzadec

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Arsenal, Burnley, Newcastle, west ham all have a dgw 34 and a game in 35. Salah, 3 arsenal, Burnley defender and Arnie gives you 6 players for 35. It will be possible to get 8 players out while not overly impacting your gw 37 plans.

Yeah Arsenal and Burnley have very favourable run ins too.

Necronomicon

manual_man wrote: »

Part of me is wondering how much value there'll actually be in dgw players this time round, with a number of the top teams involved on multiple fronts (league/champions league/fa cup) - rotation worries obviously but fatigue could play a part too. It will be very interesting to see how things play out.

2nd to 5th could be really close all the way to the wire this season. If things stay as close as they are now, the team in 2nd might still be in danger of missing out on CL football in DGW37.

skippy15

Necronomicon wrote: »

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?

Ye very similar to mine and the template plan almost. I will wc for gw 33. Bb in 34; 14 dgw players plus salah and maybe even firmino. Fh 35 and carry two transfers into dgw37 and use TC. Good planning last year let me claw back a 100 point deficit in last 5 gw

km79

Gw 35 aint looking so skinny anymore
This makes things a little easier for me
I think !

Iused2likebusts

For gw 34 the doubles are more than likely
Burnley- Leicester H Chelsea H
Leicester- Burnley A Arsenal H
Chelsea- Burnley A Southampton A
Arsenal-leicester A newcastle A
Utd- West ham A West brom H
City - Spurs A brighton H
Swansea- Southampton H Everton H
Spurs- City H newcastle H
Southampton- Chelsea H Swansea A
Brighton- city A Palace A
West ham- utd H Sto H
Newcastle - Arsenal H Spurs A
Not the greatest of fixtures Utd and swansea probably with the best fixtures. May be possible to get away with having to use FH in 35 now.

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

For gw 34 the doubles are more than likely
Burnley- Leicester H Chelsea H
Leicester- Burnley A Arsenal H
Chelsea- Burnley A Southampton A
Arsenal-leicester A newcastle A
Utd- West ham A West brom H
City - Spurs A brighton H
Swansea- Southampton H Everton H
Spurs- City H newcastle H
Southampton- Chelsea H Swansea A
Brighton- city A Palace A
West ham- utd H Sto H
Newcastle - Arsenal H Spurs A
Not the greatest of fixtures Utd and swansea probably with the best fixtures. May be possible to get away with having to use FH in 35 now.

I'll say it again
The person who used TC on a not fully fit in a SGW who then got 17 PTS ( I think ) w I'll easily outscore all the main DGW candidates

Also my early FH was a major success looking at the skinny weeks now

Arnie could be a big scorer ........

893bet

Necronomicon wrote: »

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?

Does free hit for 31 make more sense than 35 I am wondering?

patmac

893bet wrote: »

Does free hit for 31 make more sense than 35 I am wondering?

Doubtful I can see most people having 3 Liverpool, Wilson and Shaqiri, and the other games have no stand out defenders so Few clean sheets.

hufpc8w3adnk65

What are the confirmed fixtures for 31 at the mo lads?

Scorpion Sting

MrMac84 wrote: »

What are the confirmed fixtures for 31 at the mo lads?

Bournemouth vs West Brom
Huddersfield vs Crystal Palace
Liverpool vs Watford
Stoke vs Everton

km79

If I still had FH I'd be nearly tempted to play it in a DGW or the thank he at this point
The skinny weeks are easily manageable as it stands .......
In fact even next week triple spurs pool and leicster could be a tactic........

Iused2likebusts

km79 wrote: »

If I still had FH I'd be nearly tempted to play it in a DGW or the thank he at this point
The skinny weeks are easily manageable as it stands .......

That's what I'm now thinking. It would mean BB in a sgw.

km79

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

That's what I'm now thinking. It would mean BB in a sgw.

Or TC Salah

Iused2likebusts

km79 wrote: »

Or TC Salah

No I'm going to TC a dgw player.

Scorpion Sting

km79 wrote: »

If I still had FH I'd be nearly tempted to play it in a DGW or the thank he at this point

Final gw?

km79

Scorpion Sting wrote: »

Final gw?

Yes damn autocorrect

CSF

Having an awful time deciding if Mane or Van Dijk is the Liverpool 3rd option I should be bringing in ahead of these plush fixtures and no blank in 31.

the whole year inn

CSF wrote: »

Having an awful time deciding if Mane or Van Dijk is the Liverpool 3rd option I should be bringing in ahead of these plush fixtures and no blank in 31.

Think I am going to get Mane in,all he was missing was that bit of confidence and is a nice differential to have.I have VVD and hasn't done much really.

CSF

the whole year inn wrote: »

CSF wrote: »

Having an awful time deciding if Mane or Van Dijk is the Liverpool 3rd option I should be bringing in ahead of these plush fixtures and no blank in 31.

Think I am going to get Mane in,all he was missing was that bit of confidence and is a nice differential to have.I have VVD and hasn't done much really.

My worry is that if I go Van Dijk, I keep Hazard until GW31, if I go Mane, I keep Alonso.

So it’s kind of a Hazard/Van Dijk, Mane/Alonso choice. And that isn’t an easy one.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Thinking of Ogbonna and Lingard out to Bauer and Deulofeu this week have 2fts)

Then bank in 29 & 30 to help with the 31 squad

Currently have
DeGea Elliot
Gomez Mee Ota Ogbonna Tomkins
Lingard Salah Sterling Walcott Milli
Kun Kane Wilson


Any one any other suggestions ?

hufpc8w3adnk65

CSF wrote: »

Having an awful time deciding if Mane or Van Dijk is the Liverpool 3rd option I should be bringing in ahead of these plush fixtures and no blank in 31.

If I could afford Mane I’d buy him in a heart beat

Mr_Roger_Bongos

Is that lad still doing the online spreadsheet where you can see everything together?

Fitz*

Mr_Roger_Bongos wrote: »

Is that lad still doing the online spreadsheet where you can see everything together?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Xniaw-tEEiXoyqbGZLzMx6XEcv9TLolfa8GzndvTPw/htmlview?sle=true#

Cartman78

Mr_Roger_Bongos wrote: »

Is that lad still doing the online spreadsheet where you can see everything together?

He's doing nearly hourly updates on Twitter at this stage...just search for Ben Crelin.

He's making appearances soon as well on a couple of FPL podcasts afaik

dr.kenneth noisewater

Cartman78 wrote: »

Mr_Roger_Bongos wrote: »

Is that lad still doing the online spreadsheet where you can see everything together?

He's doing nearly hourly updates on Twitter at this stage...just search for Ben Crelin.

He's making appearances soon as well on a couple of FPL podcasts afaik

Never listened to a FPL podcast, any goods ones? Can imagine its the sort of thing that people could ramble on about on about for too long and over-analyse everything

wardides

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

Never listened to a FPL podcast, any goods ones? Can imagine its the sort of thing that people could ramble on about on about for too long and over-analyse everything

That's kind of it in a nutshell. An hour talking and what can be summed up (and generally followed easier) in an online article (again of which there are plenty around).

manual_man

I think I've got my plans more or less sorted. Will mean fielding a mere 7 (+Quaner) for gw28, with the plan that I'll more than make up for it in subsequent gws. More than likely then BB in gw34 and TC in gw37. I won't exclusively be loading up on doublers though. I'll have some single game players in there with good fixtures.

alchemist33

dr.kenneth noisewater wrote: »

Never listened to a FPL podcast, any goods ones? Can imagine its the sort of thing that people could ramble on about on about for too long and over-analyse everything

I listened to the Scout one a couple of times and that's it in a nutshell. When the novelty of hearing people discuss what I normally read online goes away, there wasn't anything new to learn beyond what I read here. And it went on for an hour and felt more unstructured than what it should be.

km79

km79 wrote: »

All going well I'll have a keeper for the skinny weeks (Hennessy) and a keeper with one dgw (Adrian )
Be nice if that's little bit of planning works out. Lot can happen yet though..........

Well I well and truly ****in jinxed that didn't I

Mint Sauce

Looking long term, who would you drop? Otamendi or Alonso? Have 5 other players not playing GW 31, but thinking of taking the free hit for it, as dont want to lose many more potential DGW players. Have a further 5 more with that GW off.

thunderdog

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Looking long term, who would you drop? Otamendi or Alonso? Have 5 other players not playing GW 31, but thinking of taking the free hit for it, as dont want to lose many more potential DGW players. Have a further 5 more with that GW off.

If you don’t have VVD I’d look at doing Otamendi out for him, City likely to leak in a few goals over the next few gameweeks whereas Alonso still has a goal or two in him before the season is out.

Mint Sauce

thunderdog wrote: »

If you don’t have VVD I’d look at doing Otamendi out for him, City likely to leak in a few goals over the next few gameweeks whereas Alonso still has a goal or two in him before the season is out.

What about Davis? But then are Spurs a doubt for GW31 as well?

student7890

Spurs v Rochdale replay 28/2

clairewithani

If I make 4 transfers between now and game week 31 I will have 9 starters (some not great th e.g. Mariappa) and still hold on to free hit and wildcard. Would people think that would be ok. Thinking I may need free hit in 34/35

km79

clairewithani wrote: »

If I make 4 transfers between now and game week 31 I will have 9 starters (some not great th e.g. Mariappa) and still hold on to free hit and wildcard. Would people think that would be ok. Thinking I may need free hit in 34/35

Have 3 Liverpool and then 9 is plenty