Double Gameweek/Blank Gameweek Planning - FPL 2018/2019

Paully D · 01-11-2018 2:25pm #1

https://twitter.com/bencrellin/status/1057756924853317633?s=21

Shanotheslayer · 01-11-2018 2:38pm

And so it begins.

manual_man · 01-11-2018 2:45pm

Goodbye my sanity

FHFC · 01-11-2018 3:23pm

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

And so it begins.

Woohoo!

KevIRL · 01-11-2018 3:59pm

subcribes

tailgunner · 01-11-2018 4:12pm

This is my favourite thread on Boards.

ScummyMan · 01-11-2018 4:21pm

Chesty08 · 01-11-2018 4:35pm

Arsenal and Southampton fixed for same GW as final.
Wasn't that the case last year? Man City were fixed to play someone in the PL GW and it was their opponents in League Cup final?

Or was it just a potential similar scenario

Chesty08 · 01-11-2018 4:40pm

Man City home to Cardiff GW33
(DGW if City reach semi final of FA Cup)

Liverpool away to Fulham GW31
(DGW if Liverpool reached QF of FA Cup)

With those potential fixtures being added into a GW to make a DGW, I will definitely be holding a TC for Aguero or Salah here!

Shanotheslayer · 01-11-2018 6:09pm

I don't have the TC chip but I definitely wouldn't be using it on Aguero. Especially with the consistency of 60Min sub

FHFC · 01-11-2018 8:45pm

*waits patiently for Busts mega-post and sort it all out...*

Iused2likebusts · 01-11-2018 10:15pm

FHFC wrote: »

*waits patiently for Busts mega-post and sort it all out...*

First week in january pal for that one.

FHFC · 01-11-2018 10:58pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

First week in january pal for that one.

Any truth in the rumour you're charging a tenner a pop this year?

Iused2likebusts · 01-11-2018 11:20pm

FHFC wrote: »

Any truth in the rumour you're charging a tenner a pop this year?

It will be free for lads that believe you dont have to play a BB in a DGW though.

ScummyMan · 02-11-2018 12:45am

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

It will be free for lads that believe you dont have to play a BB in a DGW though.

Don't listen to him it's a trap

*ruefully gazes at last weeks shambles*

Cartman78 · 02-11-2018 11:47am

Can we change the title of this thread to "WTF is Aaron Lennon doing in my team 2018-2019" ??

I'll have a look at what Crelin is up to and hack it back into Excel if I get a chance.

Will share if for free with all subscribers to my Slack channel, Patreon group etc :cool:

manual_man · 07-01-2019 11:20pm

Dicky2016 · 15-01-2019 3:04pm

Build now towards Blank GW31
Free Hit GW32
Wildcard GW34
Bench Boost GW35

Hold Triple Captain for remaining small double gameweek

Iused2likebusts · 15-01-2019 4:14pm

Dicky2016 wrote: »

Build now towards Blank GW31
Free Hit GW32
Wildcard GW34
Bench Boost GW35

Hold Triple Captain for remaining small double gameweek

This is why I think there is no huge issue with an early wildcard. Should be easy enough to navigate once you FH in 32.

alchemist33 · 15-01-2019 9:36pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

This is why I think there is no huge issue with an early wildcard. Should be easy enough to navigate once you FH in 32.

The wildcard may now come in handy down the line to get Kane back in when he's properly fit

Iused2likebusts · 16-01-2019 12:27am

Will do a post in the next couple of days for how to navigate the blanks and dgws for the early wildcards. Dont see us being at much of a disadvantage at all.

supasoumi99 · 16-01-2019 10:54am

Thought this was quite an interesting thread on it here

https://twitter.com/neilswmurrayFPL/status/1084746942226333696

Dicky2016 · 16-01-2019 11:52am

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

This is why I think there is no huge issue with an early wildcard. Should be easy enough to navigate once you FH in 32.

Blank GW33 is the problem.
This year is unlike other years that it goes Double followed by a Blank.
I would agree using an early wildcard is not a major disadvantage, a lot of points could be made up between now and GW31. I was tempted myself.

Iused2likebusts · 16-01-2019 12:04pm

Dicky2016 wrote: »

Blank GW33 is the problem.
This year is unlike other years that it goes Double followed by a Blank.
I would agree using an early wildcard is not a major disadvantage, a lot of points could be made up between now and GW31. I was tempted myself.

FH in 32 solves that problem. You plan for blank 31 and by blank 33 you will have even more players as some will be knocked out in FA qf

Green&Red · 16-01-2019 12:10pm

FH in a DGW is something I’ve never considered, never even heard it mentioned. I like it. It will all depend on what the TC choices are

km79 · 16-01-2019 12:20pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

FH in 32 solves that problem. You plan for blank 31 and by blank 33 you will have even more players as some will be knocked out in FA qf

Interesting.........

km79 · 16-01-2019 12:25pm

supasoumi99 wrote: »

Thought this was quite an interesting thread on it here

https://twitter.com/neilswmurrayFPL/status/1084746942226333696

He speaks a lot of sense
Followed

km79 · 16-01-2019 12:27pm

Anyone on WC needs 3 pool players anyway. Will make navigating the blanks much easier.

Iused2likebusts · 16-01-2019 12:42pm

Green&Red wrote: »

FH in a DGW is something I’ve never considered, never even heard it mentioned. I like it. It will all depend on what the TC choices are

I did it last year it didnt work due to bad choices and bad luck but the logic behind ut makes sense so wont let that put me off.

Iused2likebusts · 16-01-2019 12:46pm

supasoumi99 wrote: »

Thought this was quite an interesting thread on it here

https://twitter.com/neilswmurrayFPL/status/1084746942226333696

Thats exactly what I was talking about Ill expand on it later.

Taxuser1 · 16-01-2019 5:50pm

i've been away for a while. pardon complete novice ignorance but why is gw 31 "blank"? i see full fixtures

Iused2likebusts · 16-01-2019 6:06pm

Taxuser1 wrote: »

i've been away for a while. pardon complete novice ignorance but why is gw 31 "blank"? i see full fixtures

It clashes with the fa cup qf. So any teams that make that rd the games will be cancelled.

km79 · 16-01-2019 11:33pm

http://twitter.com/BenCrellin/status/1085664951488970752

Iused2likebusts · 17-01-2019 12:15am

So this is just a bit of a plan for those like me that have wildcarded early.

The Good News- there is now only going to be a maximum of 9 PL teams in the last 16. Liverpool will not have any blanks and therefore no doubles. For the last 16 draw we want PL teams drawn against each other. The ideal scenario is that a non PL team make the SF. Then GW 33 will only have 3 blanks and therefore only 3 doubles moving into gw 35. The less doubles in gw 35 the better for early wildcards.

Strategy -Round 5 is between gw 26 and gw 27 so we will know who has a blank then in gw 31. Thats 5 FTs to get in players with no blanks

GW 31 The biggest Blank. We will need 3 Liverpool away to Fulham. Really good chance Bournemouth, newcastle, leicester, burnley will also have no blank. I think we will end up having atleast 5 or 6 gw 31 players in our team anyway come gw 27. By Gw 31 get to 9 blank players that leaves you with 6 potential dgw players.
GW 32 DGW Id say we will need to FH . We will all have 3 Liverpool players. Liverpool are at home to Spurs. Chances are it will make sense to offload all 3 liverpool players on FH and get in a really strong 11 with doubles with cheapies on your bench.
GW 33 Blank . The maximum blanks here are 4 if all the SFinalists are PL teams. Some of the dgw players we had kept in gw 31 will now not have a blank as they will have been knocked out in the QF. Think it will be possible to have 11 here . It may even make sense to bank this week

GW35 DGW The blanks from gw 33 will be moved to here. You will have 2 or 3 free transfers to get in dgw players depending on if you banked in 33. Most of us should have atleast 7 dgw players here. We will also have the 3 Liverpool players and they play Cardiff away. Thats 10 good options possibly a couple of hits if needed. Easy enough to get a strong team. BB or TC viable option this week.

The late wildcarders I think will also follow the above strategy to gw 33 or they may decide to FH in a blank. I think the majority will wildcard in 34 with BB in mind . Big dilemma are they really going to go without Liverpool players who have cardiif in 35 and then finish the season with huddersfield newcastle wolves. Im not seeing a huge edge here for late wildcarders. It would be preferable to have your wildcard but the hope with playing it now is you are giving yourself the chance now to get an edge, reorganise team, avoid hits etc.

The Carling cup in 27 will also cause blanks the hope for early wildcarders is that these games are not refixed into 33 or 35.
If spurs make the carling cup final and lose to Palace in the Fa cup 4th rd and city beat Burnley. They could move the gw 27 fixture Burnley Spurs that clashes with carling cup final to FA cup 5th rd week which would give Spurs a dgw 26. Not sure Ben Crelin has thought about that one;)

FHFC · 17-01-2019 12:25am

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

So this is just a bit of a plan for those like me that have wildcarded early.

The Good News- there is now only going to be a maximum of 9 PL teams in the last 16. Liverpool will not have any blanks and therefore no doubles. For the last 16 draw we want PL teams drawn against each other. The ideal scenario is that a non PL team make the SF. Then GW 33 will only have 3 blanks and therefore only 3 doubles moving into gw 35. The less doubles in gw 35 the better for early wildcards.

Strategy -Round 5 is between gw 26 and gw 27 so we will know who has a blank then in gw 31. Thats 5 FTs to get in players with NO blanks

GW 31 The biggest Blank. We will need 3 Liverpool away to Fulham. Really good chance Bournemouth, newcastle, leicester, burnley will also NOT have a blank. I think we will end up having atleast 5 or 6 gw 31 players in our team anyway come gw 27. By Gw 31 get to 9 blank players that leaves you with 6 potential dgw players.
GW 32 DGW Id say we will need to FH . We will all have 3 Liverpool players. Liverpool are at home to Spurs. Chances are it will make sense to offload all 3 liverpool players on FH and get in a really strong 11 with doubles with cheapies on your bench.
GW 33 Blank . The maximum blanks here are 4 if all the SFinalists are PL teams. Some of the dgw players we had kept in gw 31 will now not have a blank as they will have been knocked out in the QF. Think it will be possible to have 11 here . It may even make sense to bank this week

GW35 DGW The blanks from gw 33 will be moved to here. You will have 2 or 3 free transfers to get in dgw players depending on if you banked in 33. Most of us should have atleast 7 dgw players here. We will also have the 3 Liverpool players and they play Cardiff away. Thats 10 good options possibly a couple of hits if needed. Easy enough to get a strong team. BB or TC viable option this week.

The late wildcarders I think will also follow the above strategy to gw 33 or they may decide to FH in a blank. I think the majority will wildcard in 34 with BB in mind . Big dilemma are they really going to go without Liverpool players who have cardiif in 35 and then finish the season with huddersfield newcastle wolves. Im not seeing a huge edge here for late wildcarders. It would be preferable to have your wildcard but the hope with playing it now is you are giving yourself the chance now to get an edge, reorganise team, avoid hits etc.

The Carling cup in 27 will also cause blanks the hope for early wildcarders is that these games are not refixed into 33 or 35.
If spurs make the carling cup final and lose to Palace in the Fa cup 4th rd and city beat Burnley. They could move the gw 27 fixture Burnley Spurs that clashes with carling cup final to FA cup 5th rd week which would give Spurs a dgw 26. Not sure Ben Crelin has thought about that one;)

Definitely not a huge edge for late wildcarders.

You need to get me to proof read your posts but!

FHFC · 17-01-2019 12:33am

If you have wildcarded early the above tells you exactly what to do.

Still holding my wildcard for now, but if I feel the need to play next week I'd be doing it as above.

It's actually easier than usual to plan for DGWs with FTs and FH only, due to Liverpool and a lot of Prem teams dropping out in the cup.

The thing I do like about wildcarding for the DGWs is that the second double is earlier than usual, so you also get a full 5 weeks from your GW34 wildcard squad.

Wildcarding for the second DGW as per previous seasons meant you only got wildcard bounce for 3 GWs.

FHFC · 17-01-2019 12:36am

My other warning if wildcarding in 34 would be, as Busts referred to in passing, not to dump the likes of Liverpool who have a super run in after Cardiff in GW35. Don't get obsessed with the 15 DGWers pipe dream.

If bench boosting in 35 focus on a good bench 4.

My Twitter take on it here....
https://twitter.com/finnharpsFPL/status/1085673904532787200?s=19

Paully D · 17-01-2019 12:50pm

What are those with a wildcard thinking in relation to using TC or BB in a single gameweek?

To me, the best strategy looks to be:

DGW32 - FH
GW 34 - WC
DGW35 - TC or BB

Looks to me like one of TC or BB will have to be used in a single gameweek for maximum effectiveness of the others, but I could be missing something obvious, e.g. a potential DGW in 37?

Chesty08 · 17-01-2019 1:06pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

So this is just a bit of a plan for those like me that have wildcarded early.

The Good News- there is now only going to be a maximum of 9 PL teams in the last 16. Liverpool will not have any blanks and therefore no doubles. For the last 16 draw we want PL teams drawn against each other. The ideal scenario is that a non PL team make the SF. Then GW 33 will only have 3 blanks and therefore only 3 doubles moving into gw 35. The less doubles in gw 35 the better for early wildcards.

Strategy -Round 5 is between gw 26 and gw 27 so we will know who has a blank then in gw 31. Thats 5 FTs to get in players with no blanks

GW 31 The biggest Blank. We will need 3 Liverpool away to Fulham. Really good chance Bournemouth, newcastle, leicester, burnley will also have no blank. I think we will end up having atleast 5 or 6 gw 31 players in our team anyway come gw 27. By Gw 31 get to 9 blank players that leaves you with 6 potential dgw players.
GW 32 DGW Id say we will need to FH . We will all have 3 Liverpool players. Liverpool are at home to Spurs. Chances are it will make sense to offload all 3 liverpool players on FH and get in a really strong 11 with doubles with cheapies on your bench.
GW 33 Blank . The maximum blanks here are 4 if all the SFinalists are PL teams. Some of the dgw players we had kept in gw 31 will now not have a blank as they will have been knocked out in the QF. Think it will be possible to have 11 here . It may even make sense to bank this week

GW35 DGW The blanks from gw 33 will be moved to here. You will have 2 or 3 free transfers to get in dgw players depending on if you banked in 33. Most of us should have atleast 7 dgw players here. We will also have the 3 Liverpool players and they play Cardiff away. Thats 10 good options possibly a couple of hits if needed. Easy enough to get a strong team. BB or TC viable option this week.

The late wildcarders I think will also follow the above strategy to gw 33 or they may decide to FH in a blank. I think the majority will wildcard in 34 with BB in mind . Big dilemma are they really going to go without Liverpool players who have cardiif in 35 and then finish the season with huddersfield newcastle wolves. Im not seeing a huge edge here for late wildcarders. It would be preferable to have your wildcard but the hope with playing it now is you are giving yourself the chance now to get an edge, reorganise team, avoid hits etc.

The Carling cup in 27 will also cause blanks the hope for early wildcarders is that these games are not refixed into 33 or 35.
If spurs make the carling cup final and lose to Palace in the Fa cup 4th rd and city beat Burnley. They could move the gw 27 fixture Burnley Spurs that clashes with carling cup final to FA cup 5th rd week which would give Spurs a dgw 26. Not sure Ben Crelin has thought about that one;)

What do we do with City and Spurs players between now and GW31? Are we only expecting them to GW27?

Shanotheslayer · 17-01-2019 1:22pm

Chesty08 wrote: »

What do we do with City and Spurs players between now and GW31? Are we only expecting them to GW27?

If you're in my money leagues I suggest get rid and triple up on Fulham :pac:

Green&Red · 17-01-2019 1:31pm

Paully D wrote: »

What are those with a wildcard thinking in relation to using TC or BB in a single gameweek?

To me, the best strategy looks to be:

DGW32 - FH
GW 34 - WC
DGW35 - TC or BB

Looks to me like one of TC or BB will have to be used in a single gameweek for maximum effectiveness of the others, but I could be missing something obvious, e.g. a potential DGW in 37?

Planet FPL did a good podcast on it last week. There are more games to come (most likely) which would either mean a dream TGW or a third DGW in GW37. Or alternatively them running a game on the same nite as a European match, highly unlikely given how many English teams are still involved.

Iused2likebusts · 17-01-2019 2:00pm

Paully D wrote: »

What are those with a wildcard thinking in relation to using TC or BB in a single gameweek?

To me, the best strategy looks to be:

DGW32 - FH
GW 34 - WC
DGW35 - TC or BB

Looks to me like one of TC or BB will have to be used in a single gameweek for maximum effectiveness of the others, but I could be missing something obvious, e.g. a potential DGW in 37?

There will be another dgw to accomadate the carling cup games cancelled in 27 so id use the TC then .

Iused2likebusts · 17-01-2019 2:03pm

Chesty08 wrote: »

What do we do with City and Spurs players between now and GW31? Are we only expecting them to GW27?

Aim for 9/10 players that dont have a blank in 31 and keep 5/6 that will have dgws. Keep good assets the dgw is only 1 week. Gw 35 is the only problem week for early wildcarders.

The real mccoy 91 · 24-01-2019 12:18pm

Am I right in thinking that city and Everton now have a blank in 27 and either spurs and Burnley or Chelsea and Brighton will be the same?

Iused2likebusts · 24-01-2019 1:19pm

The real mccoy 91 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that city and Everton now have a blank in 27 and either spurs and Burnley or Chelsea and Brighton will be the same?

Yes

Paully D · 24-01-2019 10:51pm

https://twitter.com/bencrellin/status/1088554208654249988?s=21

dahat · 24-01-2019 10:55pm

Abandon Everton!!! ðŸ€£

spock. · 24-01-2019 10:56pm

I'm hoping the DGW25 doesn't go ahead.

Only have Hazard and Digne and anyone I bring in I'd have to sell or bench in GW27.

km79 · 24-01-2019 10:58pm

dahat wrote: »

Abandon Everton!!! ðŸ€£

Oh ****
I forgot about that

I won’t be selling digne anyway
Ricky will go
Aguero May become auba that week

Paully D · 24-01-2019 11:08pm

Brighton and Huddersfield, both at home, the likely double gameweek for Chelsea.

dahat · 24-01-2019 11:08pm

km79 wrote: »

Oh ****
I forgot about that

I won’t be selling digne anyway
Ricky will go
Aguero May become auba that week

Ricky is a dead man walking alright for alot of us.

Double Gameweek/Blank Gameweek Planning - FPL 2018/2019

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