fantasy premier league gameweek 25 tips – analysing 10 top FPL managers

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A bizarre week where 2 late penalties from 36% owned Ross Barkley (who possibly only took them as Lukaku was off the field)  pushed up the average and made moving forward without him difficult.  That meant 9 out of 10 managers got red arrows.  The 1 green arrow was for the manager who, you guessed it,  owned Ross Barkley

Ok so here’s our fantasy premier league gameweek 25 tips article. If you haven’t seen this before then , this article includes the scores of the top 10 FPL managers as well as the team selection points. These are just not the current top 10 but 10 managers who’ve been successful over the last 3 years. The 10 managers have never finished outside the top 10k in the last 3 years (30 times playing FPL). The article is all about giving you another view point other than mine. Also the managers I have picked have been consistent showing they can adapt to different seasons.

fantasy premier league gameweek 25 tips – analysing 10 top FPL managers

The 10 managers FPL stats

I’ll give the FPL managers stats, their GW24 scores and then outline their teams and structure. The stats of the top 10 managers are incredible.

1. The overall average finishing position of the top 10 managers is 1,464

2. The top 10 FPL managers have not been out of the top 10k in the last 3 years (ie 30 times playing)

3. 9 of the 10 have finished in the top 1,000

4. 5 of the 10 managers have finished in the top 100

GW24 average score and rank

The average score of the managers in GW24 was 60 compared to the average of 60. The high score of the 10 was 70. The low score was 50. A fairly average spread for such a high average. 9 had red arrows 1 had green

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers took a small leap backwards to 255k from 225k in the last gameweek. An decrease of 30k. The best rank is 17k and the lowest 612k.

If you’re interested my score was,I thought good, at 67 but  a small decrease in the rank to 509k from 506k. An decrease of rank of 3k. I remain ahead of 3 of the top 10 managers. My team value is a disaster though at £102.9m

The average team value

The average team value of the FPL managers remained at £105.7m

Key trends and observations

De Bruyne sold by all his owners and replaced in the main by Payet and Firmino

Payet is owned now by all 10 managers

The first signs of Sanchez being purchased

The first signs that Aguero maybe the default captain pick. A home game to Leicester will be interesting to see if this stays.

Ighalo still not in anyones team

GK/Defs by player

Moreno and Simpson are owned by 8/10 FPL managers

McCarthy is in 7/10 of the FPL managers teams

Wollscheid Butland Bellerin and Hennessey are in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Baines and Ward are in 4 of the 10 FPL managers teams

GK/Defs by team

C Palace GK/Defs are in 15 of the 10 FPL managers teams (I’ve counted both Hennessey and McCarthy)

Leicester GK/Defs are in 9 of the 10 FPL managers teams

Liverpool and Stoke  GK/Defs are in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Everton defenders are in 5/10 of the FPL managers teams

WBA, Arsenal, Spurs are in 5 of the FPL managers teams

Midfielders

Mahrez and Payet are in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Ozil is in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Alli is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Firmino and Westwood are in 3 of the teams

Forwards

Lukaku and Aguero are in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Kane is in 9/10 FPL managers teams

GW24 Captain Choice

Aguero was the captain in 10/10 of the managers teams

Hits

None of the managers took hits

How many have used their wildcard/chips

No one has used their 2nd wildcard as yet. 6 of the 10 has used their all out attack chip.

Transfers

Everyone made at least 1 transfer this week.

Transfers out

De Bruyne was transferred out by all 8 of his owners.

No one else was transferred out more than once

Transfers in

Payet was transferred in 4 times

Firmino was transferred in by 3 times

Sanchez was transferred in twice

No one else was transferred in more than once

The most common transfers

De Bruyne to Payet was done 4 times

De Bruyne to Firmino was done twice

De Brune to Sanchez was done twice

When were the transfers done?

There were 11 transfers in total

2 transfers were done on the Monday

1 Thursday 28th

1 Friday 29th

2 Saturday 30th

1 Sunday 31st

6 Tuesday 2nd

Formation

9 used 3-4-3

1 used 3-5-2

Team structure

Typically the GK was a cheap GK with McCarthy/Hennessey as a reserve although 4 now are using an elite GK of DeGea and LLoris

In the main 2 or 3 defenders from the group of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs were in the team. No one is using 4 like myself.

The pressure of getting Aguero in has significantly reduced the amount of proper 5th mids. 8/10 now have a 5th mid under £5.0m

The strikers are virtually all Aguero, Lukaku and Kane although 1 has Deeney. No Ighalo anywhere

More and more players over £6.0m are outside the teams of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs.

Focus on 1 managers team

So we focus this week on the top scorer.  His value is £105m and the rank 612k

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He’s the lowest ranked manager in the top 10 although last 3 seasons he was ranked  164th, 1480 and 1686.  That in itself shows you how hard this season has been when someone so good has struggled.  Interestingly he hasn’t panicked and has very few differentials in there.  Firmino being the only 1.  A quite cheap defence.  Interestingly he plays with 5 proper midfielders.  Unfortunately he suffered the frustrating problem of this of unlucky selection.  I cant really pin why he’s in the position he is though.  As I’ve said and shown it doesn’t take many 50/50 decisions to get wrong to slip back.

A combined top 10 FPL managers teams.

Value is around £103m.

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