A very interesting week for the FPL managers. 5 used their Wildcard making 7 now that have used the January Wildcard. Despite that they averaged below the FPL average for the first time. What it did do though is change the construction of the FPL managers teams
If you have 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 GW 23 – 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.
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
GW22 average score and rank
The GW22 average score of the FPL managers was 49 compared to the average of 52 points. Thats the first time they’ve been below the average. They were 3 points and 6% below the average
The average of the top 10 FPL managers dropped to 15,700 down from 14,200. The highest is approximately 900 and the lowest 48k. Again a good score from the 1 straggler helped hold up the average despite the poor week
5/10 managers are still under the magic 10k mark which is the same as last week. 1 is in the top 1,000
The average team value
The average team value has improved significantly to £106.4 up from £105.9 last week
GK/DEFS by player
Van Aanholt and Wasileweski are owned by 5/10 top FPL managers
Pantilimon Terry, Baines and Wisdom are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Foster, Clyne, Hutton, and Debuchy are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
WBA and Sunderland have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton and Leicester have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Villa have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sanchez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Silva and Boyd are in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Chadli and Downing are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Di Maria and Fabregas are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Kane is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Costa and Aguero are owned by 7/10 FPL managers teams
GW22 transfers
With 5 Wildcards used I haven’t completed this section. Multiple transfers in and out make it too difficult to track
GW22 Captain choice
Kane was captained 7 times
Di Maria, Aguero and Hazard were all captained once
How many took hits?
0/10 of the FPL managers took hits.
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 8 times
3-5-2 and 4-3-3 were used once
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their regular season wildcard now.
7 FPL managers have used their January wildcard at this stage
Team source
Austin, Downing, and Siggy 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
The 5 players over 30% ownership prior to the transfer deadline were approximately:
Costa (59%) owned by 7/10 of the managers
Sanchez (44%) owned by 10/10
Fabregas (42%) owned by 3/10
Siggy (41%) owned by 2/10
Kane (36%) owned by 10/10
Hazard (33%) owned by 8/10
Team structure
GKS
1/10 FPL manager played and elite keeper.
3/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
6/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them
6/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
3/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
1/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
3 FPL managers played 5 proper midfielders
6 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
1 FPL managers played 3 proper midfielders with 2 rotating cheapies or 4-3-3-
The forwards
3 teams had 1 forward over £10m. All had 2 cheap forwards alongside
7 Teams had 2 forwards over £10m. All had a cheap forward along side.
Here’s a team to represent that. It is close to £106m which is the FPL managers average value
