fantasy premier league gameweek 9 – analysing 10 top FPL managers

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After Sanchez came out of the last chance saloon with a hat trick last week, Aguero also came out emphatically with 5 goals in GW8 totally transforming the position of the 10 top FPL managers who all had him has captain.

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 now never been 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.  I realised this week that friend of the site Utkarsh Dalmia and long time top 10 FPL manager wasn’t in this weeks so next week I will adjust it so he is.

fantasy premier league gameweek 9 – analysing 10 top FPL managers 

I’ll give the FPL managers stats, their GW6 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

GW8 average score and rank

The average score of the managers in GW8 was 102 compared to the average of 55.  Thats 47 points and 85% above the average.  The high score of the 10 was 118.  The low score was 91.  A reasonably low spread of 27 for the average.

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers has improved markedly to 198k from 698k last gameweek.  The best rank is 15.8k and the lowest 620k.

If you’re interested my score was poor compared to the above at 85 but the current rank improved to 460k compared to  1 million last week.  My team value is £102.2m.  I’m only ahead of 1 of the managers at the moment.

The average team value

The average team value is slightly up at 102.8 up from 102.7 last week.

GK/Defs by player

Kolarov is in 9 of the 10 FPL managers teams

Richards and McCarthy are in 7 of the 10 FPL managers teams

Butland, Darmian, Azpilicueta and Targett are in 4 of the 10 FPL managers teams

Francis  is in 3 of the 10 FPL managers teams

GK/Defs by team

Man City GK/Defs are in 10 of the 10 FPL managers teams

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

A Villa and Chelsea  GK/Defs are in 7 of the 10 FPL managers teams

Southampton GK/Defs are in 6 of the 10 FPL managers teams

Norwich and Man Utd are in 4 of the FPL managers teams

Midfielders

Mahrez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Sanchez is in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Payet is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Westwood is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Pedro and De Bruyne are in 3/10 FPL managers teams

Forwards

Aguero is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Vardy and Martial are in 5/10 FPL managers teams

GW8 Captain Choice

Aguero was captained by 10/10 of the FPL managers

How many have used their wildcard/chips

8/10 have used their wildcards.  2 of the 10 has used their all out attack chip

Transfers

Transfers out

Wilson was transferred out by 7/10 FPL managers

Gomez was transferred out by 3/10 FPL managers

Pedro and YYT was transferred out by 2/10 FPL managers

No one was transferred out more than once

Transfers in

Vardy was transferred in by 5 FPL managers

Payet was transferred in by 2/10 FPL managers

No one else was transferred in more than once

Formation

8 of 10 used 3-4-3

2/10 used 3-5-2

Team structure

Typically the GK was a cheap GK with McCarthy as a reserve

In the main 2 or 3 defenders from the group of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs were in the team

There was virtually an equal amount of teams with 4 midfielders and a £4.5m 5th mid.  The other half played with 5 proper mids.

There was a mixture of values of strikers

7 players over £6.0m are outside the teams of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs.  Those are   Vardy (5) Mane (2), Mahrez (10), Payet (6), Ayew (1) and Gomis (1)

Here’s a team to represent that.  The value is around £104.0m which is higher than most teams at the moment although most would lose Azpilicueta to recify that:

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