Here’s the 7th article in the series. I’ve sought out the teams of 10 top fantasy premier league managers and analysed who they’ve got in their teams. This is not the current top 10 fantasy premier league leaders but 10 managers who are currently successful and have been successful for the last 3 years. It continues to make interesting reading.
fantasy premier league – analysing 10 top fantasy premier league managers teams – GW22
Background
Just to put a bit of context around this if you haven’t seen it before. In any part of life, sport or business it’s natural to look at the best and see what you can learn. It also helps challenge your thinking and make you question what you’re doing. if the best are doing it and so are you it may also give some comfort. I also know that going on to fantasy premier league sites if you get a bad tip then you can kind of ditch the site. So if you can see that other tried and tested fantasy premier league managers also believe in that player then it can provide some justification for the sites pick
The reason I haven’t just picked the current top 10 leaders is that these top 10 leaders will change over the season so the top 10 now will be totally different at the end of the year. In my mind it means nothing. Its more important to pick people in my mind who’ve consistently finished high in the overall league over the last 3 years.
Here’s some stats on the 10. First remember that there 10 fantasy premier league managers and I’ve looked at the last 3 years overall finish rank. Meaning there are 30 times they have played in the last 3 years. Sorry if you found that insulting, just for clarity. Again, I swapped a couple around and I now have a set of 10 managers with an even more impressive current and historic record. I’m fixing it now with this group though.
1. The average position of the 10 currently at the moment took a slight upturn again this week and is now 17,000 in fantasy premier league. That was after GW22. I’m happy with the 10 fantasy premier league managers picked and won’t be changing the make up of the 10. 17,000 is top 0.5% of 3,100,000 fantasy premier league managers. No one is currently lower than 60,000
2. The average position over the last 3 years is around 3,500 (this is the top 0.1 % of fantasy premier league teams)
3. 10/10 have finished in the top 1000 in the last 3 years
4 6/10 have finished in the top 100 in the last 3 years
The above is pretty impressive consistency in fantasy premier league. What these teams look like is certainly something to take note of. My average over the last 3 years is 7,900 by the way.
There are 2 issues with doing this though. Firstly just because a player is owned by a fantasy premier league manager doesn’t mean he wants to own him. He could be wanting to transfer him out but can’t due to other priorities, injuries etc. That’s probably more for cheapies though as expensive players are probably ditched earlier. Secondly it obviously s a look back and not forward to the next gameweek
Ok so here’s the break down of their teams (obviously I don’t mention every player just the ones that appear frequently). There’s quite a few changes due to the January Wildcards
What was the average round score?
The average GW22 scored of the 10 fantasy premier league managers was 57 points compared to the average of 45. 12 points and 27% above
What is the average team value?
The average value of the 10 fantasy premier league managers was £110.0m
Interestingly I noted the time when the transfers were done for this week. The average day of the week was Tuesday. Only 1 transferred in on Friday. Obviously everyone transfers in early to avoid price increases and create value for the team
GK/DEFs by player
There were 2 Jan Wildcards played so the make up of the teams has changed a little.
Coleman is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Mertesacker Chester Ward and Koscielny are owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Marshall Boruc K Davis Mannone and Gabbidon are owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
GKs/DEFs by team
Everton GKs/DEFs appear 10 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Palace and Arsenal GKs/DEFs appear 9 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Southampton GKs/DEFs appear 8 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Cardiff and Hull GKs/DEFs appear 4 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
City GKs/DEFs appear 3 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Interestingly Chelsea only appear twice
Midfielders
Hazard is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Ozil is owned by 8 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Silva is owned by 7 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Lallana is owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
YYT is owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Mutch is the most owned cheapie at twice
Forwards
Suarez is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Negredo and Aguero are owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Giroud and Sturridge is owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Lukaku is now only owned by 1 of the fantasy premier league managers.
GW20 Transfers
I cant analyse the transfers in full as 2 fantasy premier league managers used their January Wildcard which shows all transfers even if undone. Here’s the summary of the rest of the trasfers
The most transferred in players were in fantasy premier league GW21:
Aguero x 3
Giroud and Sturridge x 2
No one else was transferred in more than once.
The most transferred out were:
Lukaku x 4
The most popular transfers were:
Lukaku – Sturridge x 2
GW21 Captain Choices
Suarez was the captain 10 times.
How many took hits?
1 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers took a 4 point hit.
What was the most popular formation
9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers played 3-4-3
How many have used their Wildcard?
8 people have activated their January Wildcard
So what does this mean?
Here’s a few things which jump out:
- For the gameweek
The season average of 17,000 compared to their last 3 year average of 3,000 shows what a hard year its been for even the best fantasy premier league managers.
The faith with Ozil. It will be interesting to see how much he’s sold this week. The emergence of Silva over YYT. Ironic given the comparative scores in the Cardiff game
The ignoring of the Chelsea and Man City defence. The clear emergence of the Everton Arsenal Southampton and Palace defence as the most used defence.
The selling of Lukaku
- For the season
Coleman and an Arsenal and Palace defender look like defensive must haves. Hazard and Suarez look the must haves elsewhere. Ozil is owned by 8 fantasy premier league managers but after 4 blanks may see selling
The majority used their regular season wildcards. 8 have activated the January Wildcard
These managers take hits
Transfers appear to be done early in the week
3-4-3 is still the most popular formation.
All have created valuable teams.
That’s it I hope you found it interesting. I hope it also challenged your thinking on some fantasy premier league players or provided some comfort if you’re holding on to someone and doubting yourself for doing it.
Here’s a team from their selections for GW22. Valued around £112.0m so slightly more expensive than the average team
Remember FA Cup weekend so early transfers mean injury risk
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