fantasy premier league gameweek 11 – analysing 10 top FPL managers

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Here’s the latest  article reviewing 10 top FPL managers and how they did in FPL gameweek 10.   As you would have heard before if you’ve seen the article, 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 theyre holding or selling a player when you are.

fantasy premier league gameweek 11 – 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.

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

GW10 average score and rank

The GW10 average score was 67  against an average of  46 points.  Thats 31 points and 67% higher
The top 10 FPL managers average rank at the moment is 59,000 up from 65,000 last week.  The highest is approximately 280  and the lowest 400k.  Only 2 plyares though are lower ranked than 20k

The average team value

The average team value is £104.0 up from £103.9 last week

GK/DEFS by player

Chambers is owned by 8/10 top FPL managers

Clyne, Baines, Moore , Hutton  are owned by 5/10 FPL managers

N Taylor and Wisdom are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Foster is owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers

GK/DEFs by team

Southampton  have 10 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Arsenal have 8 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams

Everton have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams

Leicester and Villa have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams

Midfielders

Sigurdsson is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Fabregas, Di Maria and Tadic is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Sterling is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd is  in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Interestingly only 2 own Sanchez

Forwards

Aguero is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams

Welbeck is owned by 8/10 FPL managers

Costa is owned by 7/10 FPL managers teams

Pelle is owned by 4/10 FPL managers teams

GW10 transfers

The most transferred in players were:

Costa  x 3

Chambers x 3

Hazard x 2

The most transferred out were:

Sterling x 2

Pelle x 2

Siggy x 2

The most common transfers were:

Pelle to Costa x 2

No other transfers were more than once

GW10 Captain choice

Costa was captained 5 times

Hazard  was captained twice

Pelle, Welbeck and Fabregas were captained once

How many took hits?

2/10 of the FPL managers took a 4 point hit.

What was the most popular formation?

3-4-3 was used 8 times
3-5-2 was used once

4-3-3 was used once

How many have used their wildcard?

5 the FPL managers used their wildcard now.

Team source

Pelle, Tadic and Siggy are the only players in the 10 FPL managers teams over £6.0m that are outside the top 4 challenging teams of Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Spurs and Man Utd.

High ownership players

The 5 players over 30% ownership prior to the transfer deadline were approximately:

Costa (56%) owned by 4/10
Fabregas (54%) owned by 10/10
Sterling (46%) owned by 8/10
Siggy (46%) owned by 10/10
Di Maria  (38%) owned by 7/10

The average team owns 3.5 of the 5 players above.  3 teams owns 5.  2 teams own 4.  3 teams own 3.  1 team owns 2.  1 team owns 1

Team structure

GKS

3/10 FPL managers played elite keepers.

4/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team

3/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies

In defence

0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them

3/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams

7/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams

In midfield

Whether they played 5 or 4 or in one case 3 midfielders they all played proper midfielders with a cheap reserve.  No one played cheap rotating midfielders.

The forwards

4 teams  had 1 forward over £10m.  3 had 2 mid priced forwards as well.  eg Pelle or Welbeck

6 teams had 2 forwards over £10m.  6 had a mid priced forward as a 3rd.

Here’s a team to represent the above.

fpl.gw11TopTenTeam

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