It was the week of the 3 Ds for the top 10 FPL managers. Deeney, Darlow and Defoe meaning 9 of 10 had green arrows.
Ok so here’s the introduction for our fantasy premier league gameweek 37 tips article. If you haven’t seen this before, 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 37 tips – analysing 10 top FPL managers
The 10 managers FPL stats
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
GW36 average score and rank
The average score of the managers in GW36 was 53 compared to the average of 38. Thats 15 points and 39% above the average. The high score of the 10 was 70. The low score was 38. A very wide spread of 32 for the average. 9 of 10 had green arrows
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers took a big step forwards to 33k from 43k in the last gameweek. A improvement in rank of 10k. The best rank is 1.6k and the lowest 101k. It looks likely that 6 will get into the top 10k for the end of the season.
If you’re interested my score of 32 with was well below the gameweek average and well below the average of the top 10 FPL managers average. Probably the most disappointing week of the season. A big worsening of rank though to to 130k from 154k in the last gameweek. A worsening of rank of 24k. I remain ahead of none of the top 10 managers and 24 points behind 1 of them. My team value is a disaster too at £101.7m. My aim at the moment is to get under 100k which is around 24 points away. This now looks difficult and is so disappointing after 2k last season
The average team value
The average team value of the 10 top managers slipped slightly from £105.1m to £105.0m
GK/Defs by player
Robles, Darlow and Bellerin are in 7/10 of the FPL managers teams
Gabriel is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Cresswell, Simpson and Lovren are in 4 of the FPL managers teams
Delaney is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Sakho, Delaney, Van Aanholt and Smalling are in 3/10 FPL managers team
GK/Defs by team
Arsenal GK/Defs are represented 12 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Livrpool GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 of the FPL managers teams
Everton, Newcastle and Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Sunderland, C Palace, West Ham, Leicester GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 of the FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sanchez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Payet is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Firmino is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Alli is in 4 of the FPL managers teams
Iwobi is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Mahrez, Hazard and Lanzini are in 2/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Aguero and Kane are in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Lukaku Defoe and Deeney are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Comparison with the top 10k overall rank
Here’s a comparison between the players that make up the top 10 FPL managers and the top 10k overall ranked teams in FPL. The information is from the excellent site FPL discovery. We’ll show you the info and then talk through some thoughts on the meaning. Obviously with the 10 top managers the percentages are always going to be a factor of 10. % at or greater than 100% could mean that 1 team has more than 1 player in that defensive team
Player | top 10 FPL managers % | Top 10k ovr | Overall | |
Defence | ||||
Arsenal Def | 120% + | 80% + | 85% ish | |
Spurs def | 10% + | 40% + | 70 % ish | |
Liv Def | 80% | 40% + | 45% ish | |
Man Utd Def | 70% + | 40% + | 50% ish | |
Midfield | & fwds | |||
Sanchez | 100% | 75% | 20% | |
Payet | 90% | 72% | 32% | |
Mahrez | 20% | 64% | 64% | |
Iwobi | 30% | 29% | 7 % | |
Firmino | 50% | 28% | 15% | |
Ozil | 20% | 24% | 40% | |
De Bruyne | 10% | 15% | 10% | |
Forwards | ||||
Aguero | 80% | 89% | 34% | |
Kane | 80% | 74% | 46% | |
Sturridge | 10% | 22% | 7% | |
Defoe | 30% | 19% | 8% | |
Ok the battle lines of ownership are clearly drawn
The top 10 FPL managers I follow have backed the Arsenal Liverpool Man Utd Newcastle and Everton defence plus Sanchez and Firmino far more the the top 10k.
The top 10k have stuck with the Spurs defence. Mahrez and Kane
GW36 Captain Choice
Sanchez was the captain in 9/10 teams
1 team captained Deeney
Hits
5 of the managers took a 4 point hit.
How many have used their wildcard/chips
8/10 of the 10 have used their all out attack chip.
10/10 have used their 2nd wildcard. 2 used it in this gameweek
8/10 have used their Bench Boost
2/10 have used their triple captain
Transfers
This ignores the 2 wildcards used as it’s too difficult to track all the ins and outs
Transfers out
Mitrovic was transferred out 4 times
De Bruyne and Sakho were transferred out twice
No one else was transferred out more than once
Transfers in
Deeney, Payet and Creswell were transferred in twice
No one else was transferred in more than once
Formation
8 FPL managers played 3-4-3
1 played 3-5-2
1 played 4-3-3
Focus on 2 players team
Here’s the 2 teams that used their wildcard in anticipation of presumably bench boost in GW36
Top 10 managers combined team
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