Blank and Double Gameweek discussion 2019/2020

Do people envisage there being a bigger blank gameweek (one with more than 4 teams blanking as is the case with gw 28) later in the season?

gandalfio wrote: »

Do people envisage there being a bigger blank gameweek (one with more than 4 teams blanking as is the case with gw 28) later in the season?

GW31 could be the biggest. Could easily be half the games gone. Might be a popular free hit week if that's the case

GW34 up in the air how many. The guru of such things Ben Crellin forecasts 3 blanks as the most likely currently but depends on so many results.

Porthallian wrote: »

GW31 - A blank will happen if the following happens in the FA Cup fifth round:
Spurs v West Ham: Spurs beat Norwich
Chelsea v Man City: Chelsea beat Liverpool or Man City beat Sheff Wed
Man Utd v Sheff Utd: Man Utd beat Derby or Sheff Utd beat Reading
Newcastle v Aston Villa: Newcastle beat West Brom
Norwich v Everton: Norwich beat Spurs
Liverpool v Crystal Palace: Liverpool beat Chelsea
Leicester v Brighton: Leicester beat Birmingham
Southampton v Arsenal: Arsenal beat Portsmouth

Sorry for the bad formatting guys.
But I'd guess a good 5/6 of those 8 fixtures will be blank.
Could be as few as 4 teams playing in GW31.
Might be so few that Free Hit won't even be worth playing?

Could be a blank of all blanks alright.

A bit of interesting advice from the Blank King Ben:

@BenCrellin
We've established that generally speaking there won't be a better time to have 2 FTs than in GW29, when the GW31 Blanks are decided.

The first game of GW29 is LIV vs BOU (12.30pm on Saturday)
Liverpool could rest players vs Bournemouth as the 2nd leg vs Atelti is 4 days later...

@BenCrellin
So you'd probably want to wait until 15 mins before the deadline to make your transfers in GW29, in the hope that we'll get a leaked team sheet.

If you decide to Free Hit in GW31, and LIV don't have a Blank, then you may want to sell a LIV player if they don't start vs BOU.

@BenCrellin
And if you decide against Free Hitting in GW31, and LIV do have a Blank, then you may also want to sell a LIV player if they don't start vs BOU.

https://twitter.com/BenCrellin/status/1229183704863584257?s=20

Green&Red wrote: »

Chelsea and United away most likely, horrible double



but still a double

Who will start both games though?

Ederson, Laporte(if he doesn't get injured again!) and maybe De Bruyne. After that I'm not sure.

I have Aguero, KDB and Mahrez so I'm thinking of keeping KDB and one of Mahrez/Aguero. I can then bring in Laporte in 29 if it happens.

These are some of the thoughts wrt a DGW29 for City..

Fantasy Football Scouters Jarvish Scott Talent, Lateriser 12 and Legomane give their thoughts on it....

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/02/20/de-bruyne-hauls-again-as-decision-time-over-city-assets-draws-nearer/?hc_page=3&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_21696973

https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/02/19/planning-for-blank-gameweek-28-and-chip-season/?hc_page=3&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_21693002

https://twitter.com/legomane_fpl/status/1229144941932294144?s=21

I don't see Chelsea or City being too comfortable coming out to reschedule a game due to participation in the FA cup QF before they have even qualified for that stage. Surely they would wait till after one of them have qualified for the quarter Final which would be the Tuesday after GW28. 8 days notice maximum for the rescheduled game. City would then be gw 29 Sunday Utd A Wed Chelsea A Gw30 Sat Burnley H then real madrid on a Tuesday don't think they would voluntarily be looking for that schedule before the biggest game of their season. Id say they would prefer to fit it into gw 37 even as part of a treble gw if they had to over fitting it into gw 29.

The problem with this mythical dgw BB is that you are forcing yourself to only pick from 8 or 10 teams when you wildcard and forcing yourself to pick from one gw of fixtures. When you sgw BB you can pick whatever week you think the fixtures are best and can have players from any team you want.

SameOleJay wrote: »

31 feels fairly straight forward, no Liverpool and I free hit, Liverpool and i don't.

Say Liverpool go through against Chelsea unless there is a big upset you are likely left with 3/4 games:

1. Burnley v Watford
2. Wolves v Bouremouth
3. Norwich v Everton (assuming Spurs beat Norwich)
4. Newcastle v Villa (goes ahead if Newcastle beat WBA away)

Is it really worth playing a free hit to get 11 players from those fixtures?

You'd want 3 from Wolves, DCL+Ricky and Grealish.. maybe a Burnley player or two and then you'd be in real punt territory.

Even if Liverpool are knocked out I'm thinking a -4 to get me to even 7 players would do the job. Then you've got much more flexibility around doubles later on in season.

SameOleJay wrote: »

I think the value in some doubles is the confidence you can have in guys playing and no zeros on the bb.

An advantage of that alright. My argument has always been that its not the only time you can play the BB and that there are negatives to a dgw BB that can happen before and after the actual dgw BB.

Trimm Trabb wrote: »

Say Liverpool go through against Chelsea unless there is a big upset you are likely left with 3/4 games:

1. Burnley v Watford
2. Wolves v Bouremouth
3. Norwich v Everton (assuming Spurs beat Norwich)
4. Newcastle v Villa (goes ahead if Newcastle beat WBA away)

Is it really worth playing a free hit to get 11 players from those fixtures?

You'd want 3 from Wolves, DCL+Ricky and Grealish.. maybe a Burnley player or two and then you'd be in real punt territory.

Even if Liverpool are knocked out I'm thinking a -4 to get me to even 7 players would do the job. Then you've got much more flexibility around doubles later on in season.

Depends what you have from that in your regular team. I currently have Jimenez, Grealish, Lascelles, plus Rico and Hayden who look to have been dropped. If I can get to 7 I'd stick on that.

Do we know yet if city will have DGW in 29?

If they don’t I may sell Aguero this week for a hit

extra gravy wrote: »

Wait ti Friday before making any moves in case there's an announcement.

I will.
Might be time for me to wildcard after the BGW anyway.
Have Aurier, Aguero, Rico, Firmino, Traore, Noble all in my squad, need to get rid of a few.

If arsenal go out here. Crelins dgw 29 would stand a chance of happening.