Here’s our fantasy premier league gameweek 35 tips updated article to take into account the full DGW34 games and the 10 managers scores. If you haven’t seen the article before this is where we analyse the teams of 10 top FPL managers where in the last 3 seasons none have finished outside the top 10k. The top 10 Managers have played 30 times in the last 3 years and none have finished outside the top 10k in that time. Considering how variable the last 3 years have been this is remarkable consistency and shows an ability to adapt strategy in different seasons. It also gives you a view other than my own on strategy and player selection.
fantasy premier league gameweek 35 tips – analysing 10 top FPL managers – updated
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THE 10 MANAGERS FPL STATS
The stats of the top 10 managers are incredible again.
1. The overall average finishing position of the top 10 managers is 2,943
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
GAMEWEEK REVIEW
A mixed week for the top 10 FPL managers. 6 of the 10 had red arrows.
The average score of the managers in DGW33 was 62 compared to the average of 56. Thats 6 points and 11% above the average score. The high score of the 10 was 86. The low score was 45. A very spread of 41 for an average scoring gameweek.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw a small improvement of rank to 91k compared to the last gameweek of 95k. An average rank improvement of 4k. The best rank is just over 100 and the lowest 403k. If you calculated the median rank then that dropped to 39k compared to 27k last gameweek. A worsening of rank of 12k. At the moment 6 have overall ranks inside 100k. 2 are inside the top 10k.
The average value sees a slight improvement to £105.9m up from £105.8m in the last gameweek
If you’re interested my score was poor at 54. I had a higher score than only 3 of the managers. My overall rank is now 74k compared to 65k last gameweek. A worsening of rank of 9k. I’m ahead of 4 of the top 10 managers. My team value is low in comparison at £102.9m. A slight improvement compared to the last gameweek at £102.6m. My total score is 1868 points.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
Valencia is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Alonso is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Pickford is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Jakupovic is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Valdes Foster, Heaton, Holebas, Pieters, Walker, Yoshida, Bertrand, Chambers, Robertson, Brunt, A Smith, and Gibson are in 2/10 FPL managers teams
GK/DEFS BY TEAM
Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 12 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Middlesboro GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA and Sunderland GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton and Hull GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Spurs GK Defs are represented 4 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Zaha is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Alli is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Sanchez is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Eriksen is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Sigurdsson, King and Coutinho are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Carroll, Fletcher and Hazard are in 2/10 FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Lukaku is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Kane is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Negredo is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Benteke and Rashford is in 2/10 FPL managers teams
DGW34 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Negredo was the captain in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Rashford was the captain in 2/10 FPL managers teams
Benteke and Sanchez were the captains in 1/10 FPL managers teams
The top 10 overall rank according to FPL discovery captained Negredo 25% of the time, Rashford 20%, Lukaku 11% and Benteke/Kane 10%
FORMATIONS
Haven’t calculated it this week
TRANSFERS
Wildcards, Transfers and Hits
2/10 have now played their 2nd wildcards.
0/10 have played their bench boost
10/10 have played their triple captain chip. 1 playing it this week
In this round 3 managers took a 4 point hit. 1 took an 8 point hit
8 of the 10 managers made a transfer
Transfers in
Negredo was transferred in 5 times
Rashford was transferred in 2 times
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Aguero was transferred out 3 times
Ibrahimovic was transferred out 2 times
No one else was transferred out more than once
COMPARISON WITH THE TOP 10K
Here’s a comparison with the how the top 10k overall rank average team looks like. The information is provided by the excellent site FPL discovery.
The top 10k scored similar to the top 10 FPL managers with 61 compared to 62.
They have some big differences (30% difference is the benchmark) with the top 10k rank.
The top 10k don’t favour any player more significantly than the top 10 managers I follow.
The 10 Managers I follow favour the following more significantly than the top 10k
Pickford, Jakupovic, Alonso, Valencia, Zaha and Kane
FOCUS ON 1 MANAGERS TEAM
Again we focus on the managers team who last season finished the highest of my then top 10 FPL managers ending up in 1,400th position. This manager is the closest thing to a fantasy football celebrity there is due to his consistent results so we’ll keep an eye on him. So far he’s 3rd of the top managers. I suspect with his WC and BB intact he’ll make it into the top 10k again
His gameweek score was 67 and his overall rank is now 16k. His TV is £103.6m
Just to give you a bit of context his last 3 years overall rankings have been 1,450, 277 and 90.
THE HIGHEST SCORING AND LOWEST SCORING MANAGERS IN DGW34
Highest scorer
He had the high score of 86 of the top 10 managers
Lowest scorer
7/11 players were the same. 8 if you count Gibson and Chambers effectively the same. Yet 41 points difference. Same theme’s though. Defence, captains and 1 or 2 players.
Defence contributed to 12 of the points difference. The captain 22. Eriksen over Sane 8. Those 3 things are 42 points difference.
TOP 10 MANAGERS COMBINED TEAM
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. The value isn’t that bad around £103.5m
The core players who are in more than 50% of the 10 managers teams are Lukaku, Kane, Negredo, Alli, Zaha, Valencia and Alonso and Pickford
If you cross reference this with the top 10k managers with players over 50% then by that Lukaku and Alli, with Zaha as close as you can get, are essential.
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