FSA Christmas Preparation - Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

Im trying to fill my team with players who are as rotation proof as possible for the coming weeks. What are peoples best guesses at players who'll last the schedule? It could be handy if we managed to compile a list of our best guesses. I think the ideal candidate is someone like austin or ings who is vital to their team, is playing in a team that is desperately scrapping for points and a team that played 46 games last season. Id be highly surprised if either of them got rested, particularly austin. Its obviously a dangerous game filling your squad with relegation fodder though, who are the top tier players likely to avoid rotation? For some reason im confident hazard wont be rested but i cant explain why.

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iroced wrote: »

Haha. Bloody Mourinho! Next 6 games huh? We don't give a damn about the Derby County game so just give us the list of the players who'll play 5 games will you :pac:?!

Here's hoping my players don't play the Derby game.

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Next four GWs are within 12 days. It's gonna be hectic and I can't wait

chelsea play the mon night so its 4 in 10 for them.

FHFC wrote: »

My Xmas plan is surprisingly clear in my head now. So no doubt will be in pieces by the weekend.

Team for GW17 will look like this...
Green
Terry, Zabaletta (or Demi), Dummet
Sanchez, Hazard, Eriksen, Downing,
RVP, Bony, Costa

Hamer, Boyd, Duff, Hutton

Plan to bank in GW18 as while City attacking coverage would be nice Eriksen has another nice fixture. 2 Fts and probably a hit for GW19 to bring in Jovetic, Sterling and Nasri/Silva for Eriksen, Downing, and Costa.

GW19 team therefore
Green
Zab, Terry, Hutton
Sanchez, Hazard, Silva/Nasri, Sterling
Jovetic, RVP, Bony

Bony out the week after probably.

If RVP goes off the boil or Costa goes on the boil over next couple of weeks they may change the plan, but I think Costa will definitely not play both GW18 and 19.

Definite lack of Charlie Austin up top.

This is my team, I've 1.2m in the bank and changes made for GW17 (Silva in)

As i've seen posted the christmas schedule is key to FPL...SO what improvements/must haves do i need that dont involve huge point hits?

Forster

Wisdom Ivanovic Bertrand

Silva Mata Eriksen Sigurdsson Hazard

Kane Costa

SUBS: Chambers Berahino Schmeichel Schlupp

How important is a strong front 8 for this period? I'm currently on:

Hazard Sanchez Siggy Downing Boyd
Bony Benteke Austin

and am pretty set on doing Boyd to Yaya for a -4. I figure Bony, Benteke, Austin, Downing, and Siggy are immune from rotation. Boyd is on 4 yellows and has terrible fixtures so I wouldn't really fancy him coming in for an unexpected Hazard or Sanchez rest. I know Yaya is on 4 yellows as well, but I'm willing to risk it since he would be a great captain option for GWs 19/20

FHFC wrote: »

I'm planning on risking it with Boyd on the basis that I'll have a 433 option. Not a fantastic one, but if Boyd misses out or has a horrible fixture I'll call on Dummet or Hutton.

The strong front 8 isn't a strategy I like long term, but I have so much spare money now and would wildcard straight away in Jan. My only deterrent is bench points which I'll just have to accept. This would also allow me to bench Downing at Chelsea on Boxing Day.

Every year the Xmas period kick starts my season. Still waiting to break into top 100k but hopefully cattermole can grab a few goals over the next 4 gws

What does 'FSA' in thread title stand for?

Right. While everyone is getting crazy about who to transfer in and who to captain this week, I'm stuck at home with a nasty flu and have no idea what to do transfer & captain wise this week... So figured I'd take some time to finalise the full list of PL players who featured during all or most of last year 4 "Christmas games". Maybe it'd give me some inspiration...

A thorough follow-up to last month Busts opener really . Now draw any conclusions you want about it :P...

Just to be clear. I used a kind of number coding e.g. Berahino (1+2x0.5+0.1) = played 1 full (or > 60 min) game, 2 games during 45 min and 1 game where he came in in the last ~10 min. From 0.7 it's a > 60 min game. Used that "coding" because some regular subs did score well enough from limited gametime.
Then I listed the players who performed (g=goal, a=assist, og=own goal, RC=red card) and the amount of CS.
Enjoy .


ARSENAL

• Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Walcott, Cazorla (3), Giroud (3), Gibbs (2.7)
• Walcott (3g, 1a), Giroud (1g,1a), Sagna, Cazorla, Gibbs (1a)
• 3 CS

ASTON VILLA

• Guzan, Lowton, Baker, Delph, Weimann, Luna (3), Westwood (3), Kozak (2.3), Tonev (2.1), Agbonlahor (2), Benteke (1)
• Agbonlahor (2g), Kozak (1g), Weimann (1a)
• 1 CS

CHELSEA

• Cech, Terry, Hazard, Mikel (3.5), Cahill (3), Ramires (3), Azpi (3), Oscar (2+2x0.3), Willian (2+2x0.3), A. Cole (2.7)
• Hazard (2g,1a), Oscar (1g,2a)
• 3 CS

CRYSTAL PALACE

• Speroni, Mariappa, Ward, Gabbidon, Delaney, Jedinak, Puncheon, Bolasie (3.5), Jerome (3.3), Parr (2+2x0.5), Gayle (4x0.2)
• Puncheon (1g), Gayle (1g), Jedinak (1a)
• 1 CS

EVERTON

• Coleman, McCarthy, Lukaku, Barkley (3.5), Distin (3), Barry (3), Pienaar (3.3), Mirallas (2.5+0.3), Osman (1.2+2x0.3), Baines (2), Jagielka (2)
• Coleman (2g), McCarthy (3a), Barkley (1g), Lukaku (1g), Baines (1g), Osman (2a)

HULL

• Elmohamady, Figueroa, Chester, Davies, Livermore, Huddlestone, McGregor (3.5), Sagbo (3.5). Bruce (3), Graham (2+2x0.3), Meyler (1.5+0.5), Koren (1.5+0.5), Boyd (1+3x0.2),
• Koren (2g), Livermore (1g,1a), Huddlestone (1g,1a), Chester (1g,1og), Graham (2a), Boyd (1g), Figueroa (1a)
• 1 CS

LIVERPOOL

• Mignolet, Johnson, Skrtel, Lucas, Henderson, Coutinho, Sterling, Suarez, Allen (3), Sakho (3)
• Suarez (3g,2a), Sterling (1g,1a), Coutinho (1g,1a), Henderson (2a), Skrtel (1g)
• 1 CS

MAN CITY

• Hart, Kompany, Fernandinho (3.5), Nasri (3.4), Negredo (3.4), Navas (3.4), Kolarov (3.3), Dzeko (3.2), Yaya (3), Silva (3 then suspended), Milner (1+3x0.3)
• Yaya (2g), Silva (3a), Kompany (2g,1og), Navas (1g,2a), Negredo (1g,1a), Dzeko (1g), Kolarov (1g), Milner (1g)
• 1 CS

MAN UNITED

• de Gea, Smalling, Evans, Evra, Cleverley, Welbeck (3.5), Rooney (3 then suspension?), Young (2.2), Januzaj (2.1)
• Welbeck (3g, 1a), Rooney (1g, 3a), Young, Januzaj (1g, 1a)
• 1 CS

NEWCASTLE

• Krul, Debuchy, Santon, Williamson, Coloccini, Sissoko, Rémy, Cabaye (Gouffran (3.5), Tioté (3), Ben Arfa (1.5+2x0.2), Sh. Ameobi (1.5+2x0.2), Anita (2.5)
• Cabaye (2g), Rémy (2g), Ben Arfa (1g,2a), Sissoko (2a), Gouffran (1g), Debuchy (1a,1RC), Sh. Ameobi (1a)
• 1 CS

SOUTHAMPTON

• Chambers, Cork, S. Davis, Lallana, Rodriguez, Lambert (3.3), Schneiderlin (3), Lovren (3), Fonte (3), Shaw (2.5)
• Rodriguez (2g,1a), Lallana (1g,3a), Lambert (2g, 1a)
• 1 CS

STOKE CITY

• Cameron, Pieters, Shawcross, Walters, Crouch (3.6), Assaidi (3.5), Wilson (3), Whelan (3), Adam (2.5+0.5)
• Assaidi (2g), Crouch (1g,1a), Adam (1g), Cameron (1a)

SUNDERLAND

• Mannone, Bardsley, Ki, Cattermole (3.5), Borini (3.5), Fletcher (2.4+0.3), Larsson (2.8), Altidore (1.7+2x0.3), Giaccherini (1.7+0.3), Colback (1.7+0.3), Roberge (2.8+0.1)
• Ki (1g), S. Fletcher (1g), Coback (1g), Giaccherini (1a), Roberge (1a)
• 2 CS

SWANSEA

• Tremmel, Cañas, Williams, Shelvey, De Guzmán (3.2), Bony (3.2)
• Bony (2g)

TOTTENHAM

• Lloris, Dawson, Chiriches, Eriksen, Adebayor, Soldado, Walker (3), Rose (3), Chadli (1+3x0.3), Dembélé (2.5), Lennon (2)
• Adebayor (3g,2a), Eriksen (2g,1a), Soldado (1g,2a), Chadli (1a), Walker (1a)
• 1 CS

WEST BROM

• Foster, Ridgewell, J. Olsson, Mulumbu (3.2), McAuley (3), Brunt (3), Morrison (2.9), Amalfitano (2.2), Anelka (2), Berahino (1+2x0.5+0.1), Vydra (1+2x0.2), Gera (1+2x0.1)
• Anelka (2g), Berahino (2g), Vydra (1g,1a), J. Olsson (1g,1a), Brunt (2a)
• 1 CS

WEST HAM

• McCartney, Noble, Diamé (3.5), Nolan (3), Maiga (2.5), C. Cole (1.5+2x0.3), J. Cole (1.9), Adrián (2), Jääskeläinen (2),
• Nolan (1g,3a,1RC), C. Cole (2g), Maiga (1g,2a), Diamé (1g), J. Cole (1g), Jääskeläinen (1a)

A Moore to Hutton transfer and Yun recovering will give me a full slate of starters barring Mannone. I should be able to cover any unexpected rotation issues.