FPL Predicted BEST GW8 Wildcard Team 25/26
This is the predicted best FPL GW8 Wildcard team for the 25/26 season. Numbers come from the player points prediction tool.
Top Players
Who are the top predicted point scorers, for the next 5 gameweeks.
Fowards
Haaland
Pedro
Woltemade
Midfielders
Semenyo
Sarr
Caicedo
Cullen
Defenders
Timber
Gabriel
Calafiori
Chalobah
Guehi
Adjustments
That’s the raw best scorers from the tool. Let’s see what adjustments we can make.
Midfielders
We’re one short, Okafor is next on the list.
The predicted points uses the official FDR from the FPL. Let’s see how that compares to our custom difficulty rating
Should Cullen stay?
Cullen and Okafor, Burnley and Leeds.
How do the Leed and Burnley fixtures look over the next 5 gameweeks
Burnely’s fixtures are not ideal to say the least. Leed’s better but not good.
Let’s keep Okafor as a differential but change Cullen.
Down the midifielder list
Gravenberch and Minteh are next up.
Gravenberch predicted points per game over the next 5 gameweeks is 0.5 points per game better. Or 2.5 points total over 5 games, not an end of the world difference.
Fixture difficulty (unofficial) rating difference between Liverpool looks like this
-21 vs -113. Official rating difference very similar so no reason to go against it. Plus Gravenberch is scoring more bonus points than Minteh. That settles is for me, Gravenberch.
Goalkeepers
Raya is top but we have 3 Arsenal already. After that Pope, Roefs, in that order. And then a big step down to Pickford.
Comparing the fixture difficulty ratings again for Newcastle, Sunderland, Chelsea and Everton.
Everton, Sunderland, Newcastle not great according to official difficulty rating, StrikeEngine rating concurs.
Given the official FDR is incorporated into the predicted points we’ll stick with Pope and Roefs.
Chelsea fixtures are much better than Newcastle, Everton, Sunderland so I’ll understand if you go for Sanchez.
Saying that Sunderland’s next fixture is good, maybe get Roef’s than go back to Pope, if you want to use a transfer on that.
Forwards
I’m not over the moon with Woltemade, fixtures not great but I don’t see anything that grabs me lower down.
Perhaps what I’d do is get Isidor in for Sunderland’s next good fixture and then weigh up my Forward options for the next gameweek.
FPL GW8 Wildcard Team Prediction
With those changes, the GW8 wildcard team looks like this
Pope and Roefs keepers. Next 5 GWs not great for either, but next week good for Sunderland at least. Arsenal and Chelsea keepers not possible.
Arsenal defence, hopefully no minutes problems.
Sarr and Semenyo face off in GW8 so not ideal. Okafor could be a good differential if he is not on our bench.
Woltemade not chosen, Isidor better bet I think for GW8, we can reassess for GW9. Isidor has good fixture GW8, better than Newcastle.
Long Term Changes – 5 Weeks+
Going forward, for the time being at least, I think the defenders will be staying long term.
Realistically, I think the Keepers will also be staying as is.
Midfielders, Okafor obviously a wait and see, not great minutes so far but does the biz when he plays.
Gravenberch another wait and see, can he keep up his form going forward
Forwards, Haaland obviously nailed at the moment, Pedro also. Not a plethora of choices. Isidor also a possible long termer but if Woltemade starts taking off, he will be on the short list.
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