Here’s the latest article reviewing 10 top FPL managers and how they did in FPL gameweek 9. Find out what they did with Diego Costa. These aren’t just managers successful now but managers who have been successful for the last 3 years. The 10 managers have never been 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 theyre holding or selling a player when you are.
fantasy premier league GW10 – 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
GW9 average score and rank
The GW9 average score was 44 against an average of 38 points. Thats 6 points and 16% higher
The top 10 FPL managers average rank at the moment is 65,000 up from 76,000 last week. The highest is approximately 350 and the lowest 300k
The average team value
The average team value is £103.9 up from £103.6
GK/DEFS by player
Clyne, Baines, Chambers and Taylor are owned by 5/10 FPL managers
Moore, Hutton and Wisdom are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
De Gea, Foster and Bertrand are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Southampton have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Everton have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Arsenal and Swansea have 5
Midfielders
Sigurdsson and Fabregas are in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Sterling is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Di Maria and Tadic are in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Aguero is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Welbeck is owned by 8/10 FPL managers
Pelle is owned by 6/10 FPL managers teams
Costa is owned by 4/10
GW9 transfers
The most transferred in players were:
Aguero x 3
Pelle x 3
Tadic x 2
Baines x 2
The most transferred out were:
Costa x 6
Mary x 2
The most common transfers were:
Coast to Skin x 3
Costa to Aguero x 3
Di Maria to Tadic x 2
The average time for transfers was Thursday the 23rd October
GW9 Captain choice
Aguero was captained 9 times
Pelle was captained once
How many took hits?
1/10 of the FPL managers took a 4 point hit.
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 9 times
3-5-2 was used once
How many have used their wildcard?
5 the FPL managers used their wildcard now.
Team source
Pelle, Tadic and Siggy are the only players in the 10 FPL managers teams over £6.0m that are outside the 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 (55%) owned by 4/10
Fabregas (52%) owned by 10/10
Sterling (51%) owned by 8/10
Siggy (47%) owned by 10/10
Di Maria (40%) owned by 7/10
The average team owns 3.7 of the 5 player above. 1 teams owns 5. 6 team own 4. 2 own 3
Team structure
GKS
4/10 FPL managers played elite keepers.
4/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
2/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them
3/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
6/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
1/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
Whether they played 5 or 4 midfielders they all played proper midfielders with a cheap reserve. No one played cheap rotating midfielders.
The forwards
2 teams only had 1 forward over £10m. Both of those had 2 mid priced forwards as well. eg Pelle or Welbeck
6 teams had 2 forwards over £10m. 6 had a mid priced forward as a 3rd. 2 had a cheap forward such as Naismith
Here’s a team to represent the above.
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