An interesting week for the top 10 FPL managers I follow. See what they did with Sanchez. A day of very similar gameweek scores with only 10 points seperating the 10 managers.
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 gameweek 25 – 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
GW24 average score and rank
The GW24 average score of the FPL managers was 53 compared to the average of 38 points. Thats were 15 points and 39% above the average. The high score was 57. the low score 47
The average of the top 10 FPL managers increased to around 15,400 up from 14,100 last week. The highest is approximately 600 and the lowest 47k.
6/10 managers are still under the magic 10k mark which is the same as the 6/10 last week. 1 is in the top 1,000
The average team value
The average team value stayed roughly the same at £106.1m compared to £106.0m last week.
GK/DEFS by player
Van Aanholt is owned by 7/10 top FPL managers
Pantilimon, Wasileweski, Terry and Wisdom are owned by 5/10 of the FPL managers
Foster and Clyne are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Krul is owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Sunderland have 12 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA have 11 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Arsenal and Leicester have 5 players in the FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Hazard is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Silva is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Cazorla and Sanchez is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Di Maria is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Sterling is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Kane and Aguero are owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Giroud is owned by 8/10 FPL managers
GW28 transfers
Most transferred in (ignoring 2 WC played as too difficult to track multiple ins and outs)
Silva x 2
Most transferred out
Sanchez x 5 if you count the wildcards. Interesting that the sell/hold strategy was right down the middle.
The average day of the transfers was Thursday the 5th February.
GW24 Captain choice
Aguero was captained 10 times
How many took hits?
1/10 of the FPL managers took a hit. That was an 8 pointer
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 10 times
3-5-2 and 4-3-3 were used once
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their regular season wildcard now.
Obviously now all 10 FPL managers have used their January wildcard at this stage. 2 used it in this gameweek
Team source
No 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 haven 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.
4/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
5/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them
5/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
4/10 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 have 5 proper midfielders
8 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
The forwards
9 teams had 1 forward over £10m. 7 had 1 mid and 1 cheap (more than not Giroud and Kane) 2 had 2 cheap
1 Teams had 2 forwards over £10m. They had a cheap forward along side.
Here’s a team to represent that. It is around £105.5m which is around the FPL managers average value. It was a toss up between Cazorla and Sanchez but Cazorla made it affordable
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fantasy premier league gameweek 25
fantasy premier league gameweek 25
