A pretty dismal gameweek for the top 10 FPL managers we follow with most not getting much above the average.
If you haven’t seen the articles before this is the latest in the series where we follow the teams of 10 top managers. These aren’t just managers successful now but managers who have been successful for the last 3 years. The 10 managers have never finished outside the top 10,000 in the last 3 years. These articles give you another perspective apart from mine. They should also give you confidence if they’re holding or selling a player when you are.
fantasy premier league double gameweek 28 – analysing 10 top FPL managers
First off all I’ll remind you of the new managers stats. Then we’ll look at team structure and then the transfers made to get an insight into their thinking. There’s also a team at the end to summarise the position if you don’t want to go through the whole article
Top 10 FPL managers stats:
1. Their averaging finishing position over the last 3 years has been 2,353
2. The 10 FPL managers have never been outside the top 10,000 in the last 3 years. Thats 30 times playing
3. 5/10 have finished in the top 1,000 in the last 3 years
4. 4/10 have finished in the top 100 in the last 3 years
GW27 average score and rank
The GW27 average score of the FPL managers was 40 compared to the average of 34 points. Thats 6 points and 18% above the average. The high score was 47. The low score 25
The average of the top 10 FPL managers dropped a little to 15,500 from at 14,600 last week. The highest is approximately 500 and the lowest 50k.
6/10 managers are still under the magic 10k mark which is the same as last week. 1 is in the top 1,000
The average team value
The average team value increased slightly to £106.6m up from £106.5m last week.
GK/DEFS by player
Van Aanholt is owned by 8/10 top FPL managers
Pantilimon, Clyne and Terry are owned by 5/10 of the FPL managers
Foster is owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Krul, Koscielny and Bruce are owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Sunderland have 13 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA have 8 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Arsenal have 7 players in the FPL managers teams
Newcastle and Arsenal have 5 players in the FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sanchez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Cazorla is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Silva and Di Maria is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Mane is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Kane and Aguero are owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Giroud is owned by 6/10 FPL managers
Defoe is owned by 2/10 FPL managers
GW27 transfers
Most transferred in
Bertrand x 2
Dawson (WBA) x 2
Most transferred out
Wasileweski x 2
The average day of the transfers surprisingly was Saturday the 21st February.
GW27 Captain choice
Aguero x 4
Sanchez x 3
Cazorla x 2
Di Maria x 1
How many took hits?
1/10 of the FPL managers took a hit.
What was the most popular formation?
The benching of blank GW27 players doesn’t make this relevant this gameweek
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their regular season wildcard now.
Team source
Mane, Defoe and Downing are the only players in the 10 FPL managers teams over £6.0m that are outside my definition of the traditional top 4 challenging teams of Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Spurs and Man Utd.
High ownership players
I’ve removed this now as there is such a distortion on ownership due to a number of FPL managers having given up on their teams. If anything this article is a good bellweather for leading FPL managers ownership
Team structure
GKS
1/10 FPL manager played and elite keeper.
5/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
4/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
1/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them above
2/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
6/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
1/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
2 FPL managers had 5 proper midfielders
7 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
1 FPL manager had 3 proper midfielders and 2 rotating cheapies
The forwards
9 teams had 1 forward over £10m. 8 had 1 mid and 1 cheap (more than not Giroud and Kane) 1 had 2 cheap
1 Team had 2 forwards over £10m. They had a cheap forward along side.
Here’s a team to represent that. It is around £106.5m which is around the FPL managers average value.
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fantasy premier league double gameweek 28
fantasy premier league double gameweek 28
