Sky Christmas Captain Strategy

All set for Christmas? Think again. Captaincy rules in the Sky game mean that, if you’re willing to spend a few minutes making changes in between cutting the turkey and opening presents, you can shoot up those minileagues. This guide will show you how.

Christmas Captaincy Strategy

Remind me of the Sky captaincy rule again?

Understanding the captaincy rule is crucial to succeeding in the Sky game. If you’re new to the game or just need a refresh on this rule, read ahead. Otherwise, just skip to the next section.

You can make ONE captaincy change each Gameweek (a Gameweek starts on Friday at 00.01am and runs until midnight the following Thursday). The crucial bit here, unlike the FPL game, is that you can make the change on any day.

For example, you could have Sergio Aguero as captain on a Saturday and switch it to Harry Kane playing on the Sunday, allowing you two captains for that week. If Kane plays the following Saturday, you can repeat the trick by using your captain change to someone who plays on the Sunday.

You can also transfer your captain to another player – that transfered in player then becomes your captain. You don’t lose previous captaincy points and this doesn’t effect your captaincy change.

So for example, You could have Aguero captain on the Saturday, use your captaincy change to switch it to Kane for a Sunday match then transfer Kane out for Romelu Lukaku who plays a Monday night fixture. This tactic enables you to have potentially three captains during a normal week.

Got it? If you’re still not certain check out the full rules via this link.

So how does this rule change over Christmas?

It doesn’t. The rule remains exactly the same; you can make one captaincy change per Gameweek. The difference over Christmas is that there are fixtures on four separate days giving you the possibility of having four captains during that week. Yes that’s right, FOUR captains in one week! To use an FPL analogy, the Christmas period in the Sky game represents a crucial double Gameweek.

OK, show me how!

There are potentially hundreds of different captaincy strategies depending on your current team and how many transfers you have left. To keep things simple, I will use my own team as a working example.

My Team

Butland
Dawson, Nyom, Van Dijk
Mahrez, Mane, Cabaye, De Bruyne
Lukaku, Kane (C), Vardy

Overall points: 867
Overall rank: 401
Transfers remaining: 23/40
Money in the bank: 0.5mil

As you can see, my team is pretty template. The exceptions being that I have no Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal players, but I will mention if and when these are possible captaincy options.

We will start with this week’s fixtures, this will give you an overview of the captaincy decisions leading up to, and including, the festive period. If you want to do well in Sky, this type of planning is essential; it lets you see which players you may need to transfer in ahead of time in order to have the best captaincy strategy. As I had Kane captain on Sunday he is my captain for Saturday’s game against West Brom.

The Christmas Schedule

Fixture                                                 Captain strategy

Saturday 5th December 2015
Stoke v Man City 12:45
Arsenal v Sunderland
Man Utd v West Ham
Southampton v Aston Villa
Swansea v Leicester
Watford v Norwich
West Brom v Tottenham                       Kane
Chelsea v Bournemouth

Sunday 6th December 2015
Newcastle v Liverpool                          No captain

Monday 7th December 2015
Everton v Crystal Palace                      Captain change to Lukaku

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Saturday 12th December 2015
Norwich v Everton 12:45                       Lukaku
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Man City v Swansea
Sunderland v Watford
West Ham v Stoke
Bournemouth v Man Utd

Sunday 13th December 2015
Aston Villa v Arsenal
Liverpool v West Brom
Tottenham v Newcastle                        Captain change to Kane

Monday 14th December
Leicester v Chelsea                              (Possible transfer to Chelsea or Leicester captain)

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Saturday 19th December
Chelsea v Sunderland                          (Possibly Chelsea or Leicester captain)
Everton v Leicester
Man Utd v Norwich
Southampton v Tottenham                    Kane
Stoke v Crystal Palace
West Brom v Bournemouth
Newcastle v Aston Villa

Sunday 20th December
Watford v Liverpool                               (Possible Liverpool captain)
Swansea v West Ham

Monday 21st December
Arsenal v Man City                               Transfer in and captain Arsenal player

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Saturday 26th December
Stoke v Man Utd
Aston Villa v West Ham
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace
Chelsea v Watford
Liverpool v Leicester
Man City v Sunderland
Swansea v West Brom
Tottenham v Norwich
Newcastle v Everton
Southampton v Arsenal                           Arsenal player

Monday 28th December 2015
Crystal Palace v Swansea
Everton v Stoke
Norwich v Aston Villa
Watford v Tottenham
West Brom v Newcastle
Arsenal v Bournemouth                          Arsenal player
Man Utd v Chelsea
West Ham v Southampton

Tuesday 29th December 2015
Leicester v Man City                               Captain change to Man City/ Leicester player

Wednesday 30th December 2015

Sunderland v Liverpool                           Potential transfer to a Liverpool captain

Great! So if I follow this exactly, I will rise up my minileagues?

Not quite. It is important to use this as I guide only. You need to remain flexible in your transfer decisions depending on the form of players, rest or rotation and any injuries (Aguero’s hamstrings!). If you’re flush with transfers, you could also spend a few more to get in some key captains.

All that said, I hope you are able to apply this guide to your own team and shoot up those rankings!

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