Free FPL team planner tool to help with Blank and Double Gameweek strategy

Salah to kdb then downgrade Kane and get salah back for double?

Son

A

C.

Brilliant that's unanimous then!

Thong Song

B

B

B due to Salah

cheers, probably the sensible move to give me that option to bring Salah back

Soucek

Soucek

Similar to mine with Dier Cancelo Taylor Burke replaced by Stones Mitchell blank Grealish (10 players) and will not FH.

You’re in a great position . Don’t waste your free hit on budget players as you’ve got the big hitters most want already

Looks good, but I would wait to pull the trigger if you haven't already

Whats your TV?

Good but I'm avoiding Maguire, he's one yellow from a ban and I can't see him not getting booked at Anfield and then missing the second game in the DGW at Fulham.

B maybe both bench Brewster

A all day

You have to think A, although do like the Sterling shout

A here too

Agree, massive thumbs up!

Great tool, very happy with it. I noticed that it has not included the transfer I made in gw17 though, seems to pick up gw16 team. Same for anyone else?

Where is the money? MF looks weak

Looks a tad punty but I suppose you have admitted as much in your post so nothing so see here.

I fancy Villa to score against Spurs to be honest.

What's wrong with Villa? Can't see any FH teams with their players.

And about your team, I would rather have Grealish and Zaha than Rodriguez and Traore.

You make a solid point to be fair. But does it always work out that way? CRY could trouble ARS and Burnley could limit the damage to MUN.

I have gone with the FH and went early pressing it too. Too many nay sayers out there telling you what to do.

It is the perfect time to use it if your team is a mess for GW 18 like mine was. 6 players with games which included Bissouma Taylor and Lamptey. Had to use it really but delighted I am to get a very good 11 out.

Nobody knows what the future holds and we can plan for the next GW the same way some people have planned for this one. Too much of 'my way is better than yours' on here.

[insert joke re Arsenal status as “big” club]

The thing is most teams already have 2x City, 2x Utd, 2xSpurs. Not really counting Arsenal because theyve had a couple wins, I don't think Palace are a pushover and wouldnt be surprised to see them get a result in what is a Derby of sorts.

Picture a blank gameweek where all the big teams are blanking, which is quite a likely prospect in GW 29 as it will be teams that make FA cup QFs (likely city/ pool / spurs / utd etc). Sure that means it will probably be an overall low scoring gameweek with a poorer choice of players. But a free hit team vs and no free hit team has much more upside I believe in this situation. Imagine those who dont have a FH left, 29 comes around and theres no Salah / Bruno / KDB / Kane / Son, all of these big highly owned players are blanking. They have a choice, they can try and field a team of as many players by slowly transfering these players out OR they can ignore that and face the blanks. In the first situation they are severely damaging their team over several weeks, may not be able to afford those players back, and then have to get them back into their team over the next weeks again. In the 2nd situation they face a blank week with maybe only 4 or 5 players. A free hit team of 11 average players I believe is a huge advantage over a team with 7 blanks.

The difference with GW 18 is that those not using FH, majority have 8 players at least, and not 4 or 5. And this is because all the highly owned premium players are taking part in 18, therefore everyone has the same core premium template. So a free hit team is gaining only 2/3 extra players in this case, who are average players and punts. Theres not a huge upside there. What free hit team is going to go without KDB - Son - Bruno - Kane - City def? So those slots arent making any gains over non-FH teams

Will be even out at the end of the season, nailing captaincy week in week out maybe more important.

This is what I'm weighing up. I've taken a -4 to bring in KDB and Stones, which gives me 8 players but only projected to score 43 points on RMT. Some of my FH drafts were projected around 62 points, so that's quite a big increase.

On the other hand, I quite like both KDB and Stones as long term options so wonder if it's worth saving the FH to lock them in before GW 19, rather than taking a hit in GW 19.

I already have 3 city which is main factor in not using the FH. They are by far the team most likely to punish you. I have Bruno for Man U, rashford is capable of a big score but also as likely to get 2pts. Not that fussed on their defence. Arsenal is a tricky one, def worth getting 3 on FH but that is all I am really missing on my current side with no hits so is it worth a FH purely for arsenal players this week? Not sure I trust them yet

The one risk with this is if one/two of those games are postponed, you lose half your squad and the FH goes to waste.

You'll come crawling back like the rest

Was a lot more fun back then. There wasn’t as much info or stats and you had to do your own research. Now you can just copy teams on twitter!

That was my first season too. It can definitely be a bit overwhelming with the content at times now and it's certainly harder to get top 10k finishes now that there's so much information readily available.

The most disappointing change though is the attitude of the FPL community at times, especially on here, that is now much more gloating/trolling/getting angry with each other/not engaging with other posts/just doing RMTs.

Back in the day these forums were just full of people having friendly banter and trying to help each other out! For me that's been the biggest impact on the 'fun' aspect to FPL.

He's on next week's The FPL Wire - Looking forwards to that

Legend!

KDB home to Brighton or Bruno away to Burnley are the two options for me. Currently on KDB (C) Bruno (VC)

Kdb

I think only one given the fixture. I’d go son personally

I am pretty sure I will have Son. Yet to decide on Kane

I would have both and for not having Kane who's the upgrade (I presume midfielders)? Sterling?

Nay for me. Prefer to go with just Son and use the Kane money to strengthen my overall team.

At least 20 imo, otherwise a waste

They all look good, but if I was using FH I’d defo get either Smith-Rowe or more preferably Martinelli. They’re due a haul

15 at best would be my guess, highly unlikely they all return so high as in GW 17.

Prob 15-20. I done the same execise with 8 players (-4) vs FH team and was predicted 18 points better off using FFFix assistant manager function (free)

Can you not use the RMT tool on FFS and do a comparison

I took a hit to get Lacazette (upgrade on McGoldrick) - hoping he gets 10 points

Yes, just that Wilson is rather meh

*Blimey massive fail, response to PAT

National lockdown yes, PL pause no

No, all good, elite sport

Balbeuna

Bring Salah back, but not for KDB, keeping both

Going Sterling to double up with KDB and upgrade Charlie Taylor to Cancelo.

Am giving up Grealish to bring in KDB so will be able to hold both i.e. KDB and Salah

No plans to. Prob sell Salah for him for GW19 after FH. Depends on how he does v other mids.

Bring back for Son/Grealish.

Don't really need him anymore with Bruno, Kane, KDB as 3 solid captaincy choices

Give it 2 weeks tops, then you’ll all be scrambling to get him back in

Hope it doesn't.

Ben Crellin is running the numbers on it in a thread. TBH GW18 looks the most realistic of his 4 options.

Difference between FH and no FH right there. Pays to wait

I doubt any already announced games will be moved. Especially with only a week remaining now.

Yes please

Hope not - want people to use their FH etc. - Coufal would end up being my only player without a fixture

Smith Rowe 😉