Community: Fixture Difficulty
The community consider the FPL fixture difficulty for the 2019/20 Fantasy Premier League season.
There’s Fantasy Premier League fixture difficulty charts and in depth analysis from our Community XI.
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1. FPLkernow
FPLkernow has produced a fantastic graphic detailing when each Premier League side has their easiest fixture difficulty, by avoiding our traditional top six sides.Each team's longest set of consecutive fixtures without facing a top 6 side. pic.twitter.com/TEQt7HJ4Ul
— fplkernow (@fplkernow) July 23, 2019
2. Amy
Amy has produced an appealing hand written fixture difficulty chart with colour coding. This chart takes into account bookies relegation odds to decipher the difficulty of each game.First 13 gameweeks for anyone who likes to plan ahead.
— Amy ⚡ (@neirbOamy) July 23, 2019
Difficulty rating is based on online relegation odds.
Blue lowercase = Home
Red uppercase = Away#FPL #FantasyFootball #FantasyPremierLeague@FPLPriceChanges @FPLTracker pic.twitter.com/D5qnypKfYW
3. Bayer
Tim Bayer uses powerful Tableau software to produce a fixture tracker for the entire season. There are some updates new for the 2019/20 Fantasy Premier League season.My popular #FPL Fixture Tracker is back for the new 2019-20 season.
— Tim Bayer (@TimBayer93) July 21, 2019
Few improvements for this season. Updated weekly.#EVE and #MCI with encouraging opening matches. #LIV in there too.
Interactive Viz: https://t.co/hqco0Mld3L
Reddit for more detail: https://t.co/QIIsjBwa7p pic.twitter.com/iuRVG978Xe
4. Vs
It’s the short term schedule which is most important to FPL managers. FPL Vs outlines the opening six gameweeks and considers the defensive qualities of the opposition using last seasons data.#ODR Tracker for the first 6 GWs based on last seasons defensive stats.
— ???? (@FPL_vs) July 12, 2019
Will be reviewed after #GW6
Retweets appreciated ?? pic.twitter.com/RgjzKJ3xa0
5. Kenny
Richard Kenny analyses the effectiveness of the Official Fantasy Premier League Fixture Difficulty Rating, with some interesting results. This resource shouldn’t be discounted!FDR Performance: Goal Difference Correlation#FPL https://t.co/3bThS0iTWU pic.twitter.com/bZkzU0S3Fy
— Richard Kenny (@InfernoSix) July 19, 2019
Elo FDR for the upcoming season.https://t.co/q83xcHiaUf#FPL
— Richard Kenny (@InfernoSix) July 12, 2019
6. School
FPL School gives his fixture ratings in a popular Twitter thread. It’s the first four games in mind and a simple emoji rating for whether or not it’s a favourable fixture.FIXTURES! A THREAD
— FPL School (@fplschool) July 2, 2019
Fixtures are a key part of picking the right players. As is traditional in @fplschool we shall be heading each teams opening fixtures #FPL
7. Tips
FPL Tips considers the fixtures on YouTube, with particular focus on rotating pairs. All of our clubs have a paired team for home/away and other sides dovetail nicely for easy or hard fixtures.? NEW #FPL VIDEO ?
— FPLtips (@_FPLtips) July 2, 2019
? Fixture Rotation Pairs for the 2019/20 Season!
➡️ https://t.co/ZndNLfTE2k pic.twitter.com/MjjyNwOwug
8. Legomane
A new feature for the Premier League this season is the new Winter Break in February. It looks as though it won’t have huge implications for FPL, with just a longer gameweek.No Winter Break double-blank GW special chip shenanigans from @OfficialFPL… #GW26 will be a straight up GW spread over TWO weekends ? pic.twitter.com/pxjFmwygGN
— Legomané (@Legomane_FPL) July 1, 2019
9. Hints
FPL Hints returns with his annual instalment of the Fixture Difficulty Rating in the opening four gameweeks. With many managers planning to wildcard in the first International Break, it’s a helpful spell to consider.FPLHINTS' Fixture Difficulty Rating – First Four Gameweeks (19/20).
— Chief @FPLHINTS (Ash) ?? (@FPLHints) June 29, 2019
Ideal for those that are planning on using their wildcard during the September international break.
New 3-2-1 scale introduced!
Summary of findings:
BUY – LIV, MCI, CHE, WOL
AVOID – NEW, SOU, NOR, BUR#FPL pic.twitter.com/7Exo1IrQGH
10. Rebant
Rebant shares an interesting fixture difficulty graphic with the community which charts the trend of fixture challenge for some of the most high profile teams in the Premier League.Came across a very interesting viz by @GeorgeBall95 late last night and realised something similar could be done for FPL as well.
— Rebant Malhotra (@RebantMalhotra) June 16, 2019
I used @BenCrellin's FDR sheet to assign the scores and made a visualization for the top 5 of the last season. #FPL #FPLCommunity #FDR pic.twitter.com/VliUCWZ90m
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