Blank and Double Gameweek Planning

ride until GW30, and wildcard GW31 sound like THE plan

This is brilliant. Hard to summarise complex and contingent scenarios in such a clear way, which you've done, so thank you

What date will we know who is likely to have a double in gw34?

Just one other thing mate

"I think the best time to use the 2nd Wildcard is in GW 36, then Bench Boost with 15 Double Gameweek players in GW 37. I’ll use my Triple Captain chip in one of the other DGWs."

I thought 33 and 34 would be best, I assume you think 36 due to blanks in 35?

Would just to like to add that while quite sensible, this is a very hit averse strategy, which is not the only way to profit from a series of blanks and DGWs.

I am likely in the minority here, but IMO the late WC itself is only worth about 16-20 points in most cases, since its impact when focused on maximizing a DGW is somewhat mitigated by how short term it is. Those of us who will take a few -8s along the way or even a monster -12 or -16 that week (they are delicious) will end up at a similar squad as the wild carder when the dust settles and the points are tallied.

Also, hits are more likely to be rewarded when replacing a player with a blank or adding a player with a DGW, since the former can often have a -2 point baseline and the latter gives you two possible matches to get paid back.

Finally, only focusing on a player for their DGW potential with 15 GWs left might limit your ability to hop on bandwagons, get form players, gain value, and be as prepared as possible for those late season GWs. How many points are you missing out on now by hoping that you get a DGW bonanza later?

Thanks Perchino, on point with this article and a useful guidance tool to navigate through the upcoming GWs.

Great article, Perch!

A question: FA Cup Replays can create new DGWs in other fixtures or modify the DGW of COC?

Superb. Thank you.

I'll be doing the pre gw34 WC and bench boosting.

Say you have 13 players going twice plus a couple of single gw players. That gives you a total of 30 players total counting your captain twice. Assuming a fairly mediocre 4.5 points per player, that gives a dgw score of 135.

All the props for this PERCHINHO!
(Yes I c/p'ed your name, and it was in capital letters, and I'm not changing it)

Ozil to Eriksen. yay or nay?

I Have Sanchez and dont have Kane or Alli?

Great Article, very detailed and covers all angles, thanks.

It's such a shame that neither of the games postponed from GW27 could be moved into GW30 either as Newcastle are already out of the FA cup and so already have a game in GW30 anyway and even if Liverpool and Everton both go out then the original game set for GW30 of Sunderland v Everton will still go ahead as the priority.

Lovely, thanks a lot for this.

This article is superb. Just what I've been hoping for; a logical, well written and easy to follow guide to the dgw minefield. Perhaps FFS can pin this to the home page to help answer all the questions in the forum.

This is all well and good except who wants a team full of Newcastle and Stoke players?! You might get one up on everyone else for GW30 but then you will have to overhaul your team again for GW31 onwards. I am going to be focusing more energy on the DGWs. Let’s face it the average score for GW30 is going to be pretty low, especially if there are only 2 or 3 games.

Perchinho, this is very helpful stuff- and it makes the wildcard decision more interesting. I'm starting to think best bet is not focus too much on GW 30- as we don't even know which teams will make it through. Accept not having a full team- which means more DGW players GW 34.

It might not even be necessary to wildcard to have a very good GW 34 squad, worthy of a bench boost (though I might save this for ge 37 and have 15 double weekers). In fact you will be limited on the number of double gameweekers possible because of the resulting blanks.

So if your squad is in good shape for this first big double gameweek, I believe the best option will be to wildcard GW 36 and get up to 15 double gameweek players for GW 37, and bench boost then, as there will be no following blanks to worry about.

What do you think about this??

Great article Perch. Whats the optimal team to have right now in planning for the dges and blanks?

Caught this article thanks to twitter. Take a bow, Perchinho. And for heaven's sakes, go to law school. You have the research skills to be a top level attorney, making a ton of cash. 😉

Mad respect for the effort. I'm happy cause I already planned to get Bertrand this week and Vardy after the next two fixtures. So I am already on the right track w/o knowing it was the right track.

By the way, Leicester's fixtures after GW26 - (HOME 6, away 3)
NOR, WBA, wat, NEW, cpl, SOU, sun, WHM, SWA

Impossible to NOT have Vardy, Mahrez and a defender for that stretch.

Great post. One thing you can't overlook is the effect of the transfer fee. Some or most of the players transferred out for blank weeks are the big hitters. Having a full squad(barring injuries) for gwk 30 is great. But, if you can't afford to get the players back in the subsequent weeks and especially for the Dgwk 34/37 you could end up with players from the lesser teams or be forced to rebuild with less than 4 weeks to the end of the season. 90% blank teams seem to consist of the players who have accumulated the most value. Ozil, Kane,aguaro et al. Loosing 50% on the tv will make it unlikely to get them all back for Dgwk fixtures when you want to triple captain or bench boost. All said and done, great analysis. Thanks

Great Article Perch. If it wasn't for people you like you spending time analysing this stuff I don't know where I'd be. Based on your research I think I need to change my transfers this week. Originally I wanted to bring Kane in for injured Lukaku but now I'm not so sure.. I have 2 FT's this week and 1.0m ITB, can you advise what would be best for me to do?

Current team is:

Butland/Hennessey
Zouma Bellerin Moreno Alderwerield Morgan
Ozil Payet Alli Firmino Deulofeu
Aguero Lukaku Vardy

Your help is appreciated!!

Thanks a lot!

Why not wildcard in GW 33 if GW34 is the largest DGW?

Bench one:

Alderwiereld (WAT)
Rangel (CRY)
Bellerin (bou)
Moreno (SUN)

Thanks!

you are a legend for this. cheers.

This is fantastic

Amazing article, thank you!

Great article thank you.

PERCHINO - you are a legend mate!

When will the DGW be announced?

Are Silva & Evans for VvD and Siggy for -4 a good move? Thinking ahead with GW27/30/35 but this will then leave me with 7.1mil ITB and I feel like that'll be wasted just in the bank and not getting me any points.. my rank is already abysmal, so need to take a few chances...