Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9

Loving your Fantasy Premier League? Big Fantasy Football player? How about some analysis with a pile of graphs from our Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9.

We have already unleashed our official Premier League weekend preview with tips based on each team’s performance after the second International break, but that doesn’t stop us sharing our thoughts with a Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview too for this round.

Sit back for the Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9, with all the trimmings.

Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9 – The Big Questions

Should I get rid of Salah this weekend?

Verdict: If you are thinking about moving Mo Salah on in the next few weeks then it will probably pay to do it now. His record is not great against Man Utd, and when we say not great, we mean zero goals or assists against the Red Devils in four games. And Liverpool’s record against Man Utd at Old Trafford isn’t great. Salah is a little out of form too (for his lofty standards) with no goals or assists in the last two games.

But after this weekend’s mega clash, Spurs awaits (Salah has 6 goals in 9) and newly promoted Aston Villa.

For us, we enjoy watching him play too much to get rid. But his hefty cost could be used to get an Aguero into your side with their easy run ahead. Or perhaps swap over to the Mane man Sadio.

Is the Pukki party over?

Verdict: Sadly, it looks as if the good times are at least starting to slow down. Norwich’s injuries aren’t helping. Neither is their terrible away form, which has seen them accumulate zero points so far. And on the back of the flogging by Aston Villa last time out.

Two of their next three are away (v Bournemouth this weekend and Brighton in Week 11) and Manchester Utd visit in between.

It could be a good time to swap him out for a few cheap options like Maupay & Connolly (Brighton) who will play Norwich at home in three games time.

We are still keeping him though, at least until after the Man Utd game which could be a coach killer.

The Watchlist

Here’s a few quick points on players, themes and teams to watch.

• Can Spurs turn it around quickly, there’s too much expensive FPL point scoring talent going to waste. A home match against Watford is the perfect way to start.
• Have Wolves already turned the corner, three clean sheets in a row (all comps) and a win against Man City last time out. 
• Callum Hudson-Odoi looked quite good last time out against Southampton, and equally good for England over the International break. A great cheap option if you don’t already have Mason Mount.
• One wonders why the absence of Paul Pogba is being reported as a negative for Man Utd.

Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9 – Captain Choices

Below we have three lots of data – Player history v Team, FPL Points from this season per minute, current FPL Form, and a measure from our Fixture Difficulty Ratings published earlier this week.

Add the scores together and you get our Final Score. And for our thoughts below. We presume there will be no Kevin de Bruyne this weekend.

WE SAY YES

De Bruyne is a must if he is in your side.

Other than that, we suggest Aguero, Son and Tammy Abraham.

WE SAY NO

Liverpool front three.

Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview – Difficulty Factor

We have previous released a new method of determining the difficulty of each team’s games. Based on last year’s form, table position, relative form to opposition, and head to head record, we have a score of 1 (Easy to 10 (Hard). Just a more customised score than the official FPL one.

Our measure below is for the next three games to give you a little more term thinking.

There’s more to it, so feel free if you want to know more and click on this link to discover the full article.

Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9 – Quick Stats

Want to know who is the most popular player overall? Or the highest pick per team? Or the most popular team? Or who changed ownership the most? And what about price changes?

We say it’s an FPL buffet, and help yourself.

Same players as above, but we have captured their change in ownership from GW8.

How about seeing which teams have the most players selected. No real surprises really. Loads of Liverpool and Man City. Everton are still, but stand by…..

And now let’s check the change in ownership by team since Gameweek 1…..

Fantasy Premier League FPL Preview Gameweek 9 – Changes in ownership.

Who are people jumping on board with and who is walking the FPL plank? Follow below for the best and blurst.

Changes are from the previous Gameweek.

Fantasy Premier League FPL Interesting

Need some extra stats to help you make that right decision?

Here are some of our favourites from the Opta data.

GOALS

ASSISTING

FPL Points per Million (Cost)

For something new, we wanted to look at which players are outperforming their cost, so we simply took the total points scored thus far in 19/20 and divided by their cost.