FANTASY FORECAST 2017/18: FPL Gameweek 13
Ahead of each Gameweek in the Fantasy Premier League the Hype Train invites a special guest onto its Fantasy Forecast, where the three members of the Hype Team and its Guests will duel for FPL supremacy in predicting Premier League scores, as well as going head to head in picking a Scout Picks squad for the relevant Gameweek. In addition, we give our insight into who are the players to watch and those to drop, both for traditional FPL leagues and the Draft mode, as well as providing insight into captaincy picks, differentials for the week, and more. Welcome to the Forecast. All aboard.
Fantasy Premier League: Gameweek Deadline
For the 2016/17 Premier League season, the FPL deadline will be one hour before the commencement of the week's first game. The Premier League website lists each FPL deadline, you can always ask on social media, and you can also view a real time countdown on our Weekly Hype page.
How does our Forecasting work?
We have taken to our Hype Team, and the FPL Community, to compete in a weekly head to head dual of wits. We are asking the questions that dominate each week in the Fantasy Premier League: who to pick, who to avoid, who to captain, and who may surprise. The 3 members of the Hype Team, and a Guest, will provide weekly insight for the Gameweek ahead. For the sake of respecting the rules of the Forecast, we have provided an example of what we're sending out to interested parties.
Premier League Fixture Prediction: As pundits, we are testing our football acumen with PL predictions and will be providing regular updated tables and stats in each edition of the FPL Forecast. A perfect score is worth 3 points whilst a correct result is worth 1 point.
FPL Gameweek Forecasting: Answering the regular questions that come up every single week in the Fantasy Premier League community that helps with identifying captaincy picks, transfers, attacking options, clean sheet potential, teams to look our for and avoid, players to consider for the Draft game, the wildcard differential players, as well as general analysis and comments.
Scout Picks: Picking a squad of 15 for a single Gameweek, without any budget, using the rules of the FPL - formations, captains and vice captains, and the player limits of 3 per club (chips will not be feature of these weekly picks)
Each team must pick a Captain, labelled as (c) and a Vice Captain listed as (vc).
Fixture Prediction: 2017/18 Points Table
In our predictions a perfect score is 3 points, and predicting the right outcome is worth 1 point (aka if a team wins but, you predict it, but don't get the perfect score). Below is the Gameweek and overall rundown of our Premier League predictions series for the season.
Sam Austin (@HypeTrainSam): 6 (1), 4 (2), 8 (3), 3 (4), 9 (5), 6 (6), 7 (7), 7 (8), 4 (9), 12 (10), 5 (11), 7 (12) = 78pts
Phil Jones (@HypeTrainPhil): 10 (1), 5 (2), 6 (3), 4 (4), 9 (5), 5 (6), 5 (7), 3 (8), 3 (9), 8 (10), 4 (11), 7 (12) = 69pts
Robert Austin (@HypeTrainRob): 4 (1), 5 (2), 8 (3), 2 (4), 7 (5), 9 (6), 8 (7), 10 (8), 8 (9), 6 (10), 5 (11), 6 (12) = 78pts
Special Guests: 4 (1), 4 (2), 7 (3), 2 (4), 2 (5), 8 (6), 13 (7), 9 (8), 3 (9), 10 (10), 4 (11), 8 (12) = 76pts
Special Guests
GW1 - @FPLConnect: 4 points (0 perfect, 4 correct, 6 wrong)
GW2 - @FPLsleuth: 4 points (0 perfect, 4 correct, 6 wrong)
GW3 - @FPLBraveheart: 6 points (1 perfect, 3 correct, 6 wrong)
GW4 - @FPLJournalBlog: 2 points (0 perfect, 2 correct, 8 wrong)
GW5 - @FPL_Ted: 2 points (0 perfect, 2 correct, 8 wrong)
GW6 - @CGA_FPL: 8 points (1 perfect, 5 correct, 4 wrong)
GW7 - @FPLMad: 11pts (3 perfect, 2 correct, 5 wrong)
GW8 - @OddsOnFPL: 9pts (2 perfect, 3 correct, 5 wrong)
GW9 - @FPL_vs: 3pts (0 perfect, 3 correct, 7 wrong)
GW10 - @TheTinkerMen: 10pts (2 perfect, 4 correct, 4 wrong)
GW11 - @FPLStag: 4 pts (0 perfect, 4 correct, 6 wrong)
GW12 - @FFootballHub: 8pts (1 perfect, 5 correct, 4 wrong)
Individual Gameweek Predictions
GW1: Sam (6), Phil (10), Rob (4), @FPL_Connect (4)
GW2: Sam (4), Phil (5), Rob (5), @FPLsleuth (4)
GW3: Sam (8), Phil (6), Rob, (8), @FPLBraveheart (7)
GW4: Sam (3), Phil (4), Rob (2), @FPLJournalBlog (2)
GW5: Sam (9), Phil (9), Rob (7), @FPL_Ted (2)
GW6: Sam (6), Phil (5), Rob (9), @CGA_FPL (8)
GW7: Sam (5), Phil (7), Rob (8), @FPLMad (11)
GW8: Sam (7), Phil (3), Rob (10), @OddsOnFPL (9)
GW9: Sam (4), Phil (3), Rob (8), @FPL_vs (3)
GW10: Sam (12), Phil (8), Rob (6), @TheTinkerMen (10)
GW11: Sam (5), Phil (4), Rob (5), @FPLStag (4)
GW12: Sam (7), Phil (7), Rob (6), @FFootballHub (8)
FPL Scout Picks: 2017/18 Points Table
Picking a squad of 15 for a single Gameweek, using the rules of the FPL - formations, captains and vice captains, and the player limits of 3 per club (chips will not be feature of these weekly picks). Below is the Gameweek and overall rundown of our Premier League predictions series for the season.
Sam Austin (@HypeTrainSam): 82 (1), 61 (2), 58 (3), 23 (4), 60 (5), 72 (6), 55 (7), 54 (8), 51 (9), 45 (1), 59 (11), 101 (12) = 721pts
Phil Jones (@HypeTrainPhil): 81 (1), 57 (2), 38 (3), 49 (4), 58 (5), 73 (6), 65 (7), 63 (8), 46 (9), 48 (10), 57 (11), 77 (12) = 712pts
Robert Austin (@HypeTrainRob): 67 (1), 43 (2), 48 (3), 36 (4), 74 (5), 78 (6), 68 (7), 39 (8), 47 (9), 55 (10), 55 (11), 80 (12) = 690pts
Special Guests: 54 (1), 45 (2), 41 (3), 40 (4), 72 (5), 77 (6), 81 (7), 53 (8), 26 (9), 52 (10), 56 (11), 84 (12) = 681pts
Special Guests
GW1 - @FPL_Connect: 54 points (Captain Kane, 2pts)
GW2 - @FPLsleuth: 45 points (Captain Lukaku, 12pts)
GW3 - @FPLBraveheart: 41 points (Captain Kane, 4pts)
GW4 - @FPLJournalBlog: 40 points (Captain Mane, -4pts)
GW5 - @FPL_Ted: 72 points (Captain Kane, 4pts)
GW6 - @CGA_FPL: 77 points (Captain Aguero, 22pts)
GW7 - @FPLMad: 81pts (Captain Kane, 26pts)
GW8 - @OddsOnFPL: 53pts (Captain Kane, 4pts)
GW9 - @FPL_vs: 26pts (Captain Jesus, 2pts)
GW10 - @TheTinkerMen: 52pts (Captain Salah, 8pts)
GW11 - @FPLStag: 56pts (Captain Kane, 4pts)
GW12 - @FFootballHub: 84pts (Captain Lukaku, 12pts)
Individual Gameweek Scout Picks
GW1: Sam (82), Phil (81), Rob (67), @FPL_Connect (54)
GW2: Sam (61), Phil (57), Rob (43), @FPLsleuth (45)
GW3: Sam (58), Phil (38), Rob, (48), @FPLBraveheart (41)
GW4: Sam (23), Phil (49), Rob (36), @FPLJournalBlog (40)
GW5: Sam (60), Phil (58), Rob (74), @FPL_Ted (72)
GW6: Sam (72), Phil (73), Rob (78), @CGA_FPL (77)
GW7: Sam (55), Phil (65), Rob (68), @FPLMad (81)
GW8: Sam (54), Phil (63), Rob (39), @OddsOnFPL (53)
GW9: Sam (51), Phil (46), Rob (47), @FPL_vs (26)
GW10: Sam (45), Phil (48), Rob (55), @TheTinkerMen (52)
GW11: Sam (59), Phil (57), Rob (55), @FPLStag (56)
GW12: Sam (101), Phil (77), Rob (80), @FFootballHub (84)
Fixture Prediction: Gameweek 13
West Ham 1-3 Leicester
Crystal Palace 1-1 Stoke
Man United 2-0 Brighton
Newcastle 1-1 Watford
Spurs 3-0 West Brom
Swansea 1-2 Bournemouth
Liverpool 2-1 Chelsea
Southampton 1-0 Everton
Burnley 0-2 Arsenal
Huddersfield 0-4 Man City
FPL Forecasting: Gameweek 13
Best GW Attacking Options:
Leicester (A) vs. West Ham
Man United (H) vs. Brighton
Spurs (H) vs. West Brom
Bournemouth (A) vs. Swansea
Liverpool (H) vs. Chelsea
Arsenal (A) vs Burnley
Man City (A) vs. Huddersfield
Best GW Defensive / Clean Sheet Potential:
Man United (H) vs. Brighton
Spurs (H) vs. West Brom
Arsenal (A) vs Burnley
Man City (A) vs. Huddersfield
Southampton (H) vs. Everton
Who would you Transfer In and Out for the Gameweek and beyond?:
IN: Callum Wilson (FW), Nicolas Otamendi (DEF),Wilfried Zaha (MID), Nick Pope (GK)
OUT: Oumar Niasse (FW), John Stones (DEF), Heurelho Gomes (GK), Henrikh Mkhitaryan (MID).
Who are the players that might make the difference this Gameweek in the Draft?:
Coutinho vs. Chelsea
Richarlison vs. Newcastle
Van Dijk vs. Everton
Who are the teams to look out for?:
Man City: ‘Captain Obvious’ tells me that Man City score goals and keep clean sheets.
Spurs: Harry Kane and Dele Alli announced their return against Dortmund in the Champions League, and now they turn their attention to a Tony Pulis voided Baggies who could be shipping goals in the capital.
Leicester: Facing the new Sunderland.
Who are the teams to avoid?:
Chelsea: Liverpool have scored three goals in their last four games, so they should be avoided defensively, the game at Anfield will be a tight affair that could go either way.
Everton: Without Oumar Niasse, a player whose suspension is a terrible blow to budget differentials, they don’t have any proven goal-scorers.
West Ham: The new Sunderland.
GW Differential Picks:
Virgil van Dijk: Everton have had Niasse taken from them, and now they travel to the Liverpool player farm without their goal scorer. Van Dijk could have an easy game against future derby opponents.
Callum Wilson: Can you ignore the Englishman be ignored after scoring three goals against Huddersfield in a ten-man team? No, exactly.
FPL Captaincy Picks:
(C): Harry Kane – Even though the Englishman has disappointed in recent weeks, you can’t look away from the potential of him scoring big at home against West Brom.
(VC): Gabriel Jesus – Insert generic comment about how good Man City currently are.
Other Gameweek Comments:
Heavy hitting strikers are all the rage this week; Jesus, Kane, Lukaku, Vardy, and Lacazette all potential options. The only big game of FPL option clashes is Liverpool and Chelsea’s encounter.
FPL Hype Picks: Gameweek 13
Formation: 3-4-3
Starting 11
GK: Hugo Lloris
DEF: Virgil van Dijk
DEF: Chris Smalling
DEF: Kyle Walker
MID: Riyad Mahrez
MID: Mohamad Salah
MID: Christian Eriksen
MID: Kevin De Bruyne
FOR: Harry Kane (C)
FOR: Gabriel Jesus (VC)
FOR: Romelu Lukaku
Substitutes
GK: Nick Pope
MID: Alexis Sanchez
DEF: Antonio Valencia
DEF: Ryan Bertrand
Fixture Prediction: Gameweek 13
West Ham 1-2 Leicester Crystal Palace 3-1 Stoke Man United 2-0 Brighton Newcastle 1-2 Watford Spurs 3-0 West Brom Swansea 0-2 Bournemouth Liverpool 1-3 Chelsea Southampton 0-1 Everton Burnley 1-2 Arsenal Huddersfield 1-3 Man City
FPL Forecasting: Gameweek 13
Best GW Attacking Options: Man City (a) vs Huddersfield Spurs (H) vs West Brom Man United (H) vs Brighton Crystal Palace (H) vs Stoke
Best GW Defensive / Clean Sheet Potential: Spurs (H) vs West Brom Everton (a) vs Southampton Man United (H) vs Brighton Bournemouth (a) vs Swansea
Who would you Transfer In and Out for the Gameweek and beyond?: IN: Daniels, Wilson, Pogba, Hazard, Christensen, Smalling, Kane, Lukaku. OUT: Stones, Jones, Aguero, West Brom players.
Who are the players that might make the difference this Gameweek in the Draft?: Some lesser picked players that a worry a look this week: Chris Smalling Anthony Martial Andreas Christensen Callum Wilson
GW Differential Picks:
Wilfried Zaha: Second week in a row in touting him. Personally invested in his FPL production, he has the form, fixtures and flair.
FPL Captaincy Picks: (C): Harry Kane: Not changing this...until he leaves for Madrid in January...
(VC): Gabriel Jesus: Risk of rotation but Aguero has just played a full 90 minutes in Europe. Whoever plays in attack scores points. Huddersfield don’t pose much of a challenge in this one.
FPL Hype Picks: Gameweek 13 Formation: 3-4-3
Starting 11
GK: David De Gea
DEF: Charlie Daniels DEF: Jan Vertonghen DEF: Chris Smalling
MID: Leroy Sane MID: Christian Eriksen MID: Wilfried Zaha MID: Eden Hazard
FOR: Harry Kane (C) FOR: Gabriel Jesus (VC) FOR: Romelu Lukaku
Substitutes
GK: Ben Foster MID: Richarlison DEF: Andreas Christensen DEF: Christian Fuchs
Fixture Prediction: Gameweek 13
West Ham 1-3 Leicester
Crystal Palace 2-1 Stoke
Man United 2-0 Brighton
Newcastle 1-2 Watford
Spurs 3-0 West Brom
Swansea 0-0 Bournemouth
Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea
Southampton 2-1 Everton
Burnley 1-0 Arsenal
Huddersfield 0-4 Man City
FPL Forecasting: Gameweek 13
Best GW Attacking Options:
Leicester (A) vs. West Ham
Spurs (H) vs. West Brom
Man City (A) vs. Huddersfield
Best GW Defensive / Clean Sheet Potential:
Man United (H) vs. Brighton
Spurs (H) vs. West Brom
Man City (A) vs. Huddersfield
FPL Captaincy Picks:
(C): Harry Kane – It's his last chance.... For now...
(VC): Eden Hazard – Hazard's got a good record against Liverpool. I think it will be more of the same at Anfield.
Other Gameweek Comments:
It's been a long week, and I think it will be an even longer weekend with a lot of FPL misery.
FPL Hype Picks: Gameweek 13
Formation: 3-4-3
Starting 11
GK: David de Gea
DEF: Stephen Ward
DEF: Kieran Trippier
DEF: Kyle Walker
MID: Wilfried Zaha
MID: Eden Hazard (VC)
MID: Christian Eriksen
MID: Leroy Sane
FOR: Harry Kane (C)
FOR: Gabriel Jesus
FOR: Jamie Vardy
Substitutes
GK: Nick Pope
MID: Alexis Sanchez
DEF: Federico Fernandez
DEF: Harry Maguire
Fixture Prediction: Gameweek 13
West Ham 1-2 Leicester
Crystal Palace 2-2 Stoke
Man United 2-0 Brighton
Newcastle 0-2 Watford
Spurs 3-0 West Brom
Swansea 1-2 Bournemouth
Liverpool 1-3 Chelsea
Southampton 2-1 Everton
Burnley 0-1 Arsenal
Huddersfield 0-4 Man City
FPL Forecasting: Gameweek 13
Best GW Attacking Options:
Leroy Sane, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku
Best GW Defensive / Clean Sheet Potential:
Man United, Spurs, Man City
Who would you Transfer In and Out for the Gameweek and beyond?:
IN: Paul Pogba, Eden Hazard, Leroy Sane, Alvaro Morata
OUT: Any West Brom player, Aguero/Jesus – Pep commented on how they can’t play together
Who are the players that might make the difference this Gameweek in the Draft?:
Paul Pogba, Leroy Sane
Who are the teams to look out for?:
Man United, Spurs, Man City, Watford
Who are the teams to avoid?:
West Brom, West Ham, Everton
GW Differential Picks:
Wilfried Zaha, Shaqiri, Mahrez
FPL Captaincy Picks:
(C): Harry Kane
(VC): Leroy Sane
FPL Hype Picks: Gameweek 13
Formation: 3-5-2
Starting 11
GK: David de Gea
DEF: Jan Vertonghen
DEF: John Stones
DEF: Hector Bellerin
MID: Leroy Sane
MID: Richarlison
MID: Paul Pogba
MID: David Silva
MID: Riyad Mahrez
FOR: Harry Kane (C)
FOR: Romelu Lukaku (VC)
Substitutes
GK: Petr Cech
DEF: Ben Mee
DEF: Davison Sanchez
FOR: Callum Wilson
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