fantasy premier league gameweek 29 – analysing 10 top FPL managers

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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 29 – 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

GW28 average score and rank

The GW28 average score of the FPL managers was 87 compared to the average of 58 points.   Thats 29  points and 50% above the average.  The high score was 98.  The low score 77
The average of the top 10 FPL managers improved to approximately 14,500 up from 15,500 last week.    The highest is approximately 600  and the lowest 52k.

6/10 managers are still under the magic 10k mark which is the same as last week.    However 2 are just outside and it looks on for 8/10 finishing in the top 10k.  1 is in the top 1,000

The average team value

The average team value increased slightly to £106.8m up from £106.6m last week.

GK/DEFS by player

Van Aanholt is owned by 7/10 top FPL managers

Rose is owned by 6/10 top FPL managers

Pantilimon and Clyne 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

Spurs have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams

WBA and Chelsea have 6 players in the FPL managers teams

Newcastle and Arsenal have 5 players in the FPL managers teams

Midfielders

Eriksen  is in  10/10 FPL managers teams
Sanchez is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard is in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Boyd and Silva is in 5/10 FPL managers teams

Forwards

Kane and Aguero are owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams

Austin is owned by 5/10 FPL managers

Giroud is owned by 4/10 FPL managers

GW28 transfers

Most transferred in 

Eriksen  x 9

Austin x 5

Rose x 5

Most transferred out

Di Maria x 4

Cazorla x 3

Giroud, Defoe and Jones x 2

The average day of the transfers was Tuesday 3rd February.

GW28 Captain choice

Kane x 10

How many took hits?

4/10 of the FPL managers took a hit.

What was the most popular formation?

3-4-3 was used by 10 of the FPL managers

How many have used their wildcard?

7 the FPL managers used their regular season wildcard now.

Team source

Mane, Austin, Clyne 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

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

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

5/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams

2/10 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

10 teams had 1 forward over £10m. 5 had 1 mid and 1 cheap (more than not Giroud and Kane) 5 had 2 cheap (Kane and Austin)

Here’s a team to represent that.  It is around £106.0m which is slightly below the  FPL managers average value.

fpl.gw29topTen

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fantasy premier league gameweek 29

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