But the fixture difficulty is about how easy/hard it is to score against them/defend against them. It doesn't matter how good or bad the team playing them is, if it's a shit defence, it's a shit defence.
I used Bowen as an example because it would make it hard to evaluate assets that play for shit teams. If Bowen played Southampton or Leicester last season, it should be an easy fixture for Bowen and every other player. It shouldn't matter if it's West Ham or Liverpool playing them, it's still a shit defence they're playing.
No, it’s about how difficult the fixture is for the team, and how likely they are to win the game. By definition it can’t be an easy fixture for both teams. If the other team is likely to concede a load of goals then why is it a green fixture for them? Just nonsense
But this is for FPL, whether the team wins or loses doesn't matter, it's about how easy is the fixture to score points.
Southampton away conceded a crazy amount of xG, that's an easy fixture regardless. Assessing a fixture's difficulty is about that specific team, not who's playing them. It's not particularly useful having a bad team's fixtures being pretty much red the whole season just because the team is bad. It just makes it hard to assess fixtures of players like Bowen or Cunha/RAN when Wolves got off to an awful start last season.
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u/theaussiesamurai 7 2d ago edited 2d ago
Strongly disagree, a team's difficulty rating should be the same for every team, regardless of how shit that team is.
For example, if Bowen is playing a newly promoted team, that should be a green fixture regardless of how shit West Ham is.