Here’s our fantasy premier league GW11 tips article where we analyse the teams of 10 top FPL managers. These 10 managers have not finished outside the overall rank of the top 10k in the last 3 seasons. 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 GW11 TIPS – ANALYSING THE TEAMS OF 10 TOP FPL MANAGERS
THE 10 MANAGERS STATS
This season we welcome back 4 of last seasons managers who were the subject of our article. We add to that a new 6 managers. Stats of these managers are unbelievable and every bit as impressive as last season
1. The overall average finishing overall rank of the top 10 managers in the last 3 seasons is 2,963
2. The top 10 FPL managers have not been out of the top 10k in the last 3 seasons (ie 30 times playing)
3. All 10 have finished in the top 1,000 in the last 3 seasons
GAMEWEEK REVIEW
A mixed week for the top 10 FPL managers. 5/10 had green arrows.
The average score of the managers in GW10 was 51 compared to the game average of 46. That’s 5 points and 11% above the game average score. High score of the 10 was 66. The low score was 41. A high spread of 25 for a fairly low scoring gameweek.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw an improvement to 503k compared to 555k in the last gameweek. An average rank improvement of 52k. The best rank is 143k and the lowest 994k. If you calculated the median rank then that improved to 556k compared to 617 last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 20k. All 10 managers have overall ranks better than 1 million. Only 4 better than 500k.
The average points are 549.
The average value worsened from £101.8m to £101.7m
If you’re interested my score was terrible at 42 with no point hits and resulted in a 47k red arrow from 95k overall rank to 142k . I had a higher score than only 1 of the managers. I’m ahead in OR terms at the moment of 9/10 of the managers. My team value is down £0.1m on the last gameweek to £101.7m. My total points is 574. You can see my early thoughts on the FFGeek team article for GW11 which I’ll be doing next.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
Elliot is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
S Ward is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
B Davies, Jones and Mee are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Pope, Fabianski, Foster, Cedric, Naughton and Alonso in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GK/DEFS BY TEAM
Newcastle GK/Defs are represented 15 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Burnley GK/Defs are represented 12 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA, Spurs, Brighton and Chelsea GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton, Man City and Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 4 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Richarlison is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Salah is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Sterling and Silva is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
T Carroll is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Choupo Moting is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard and Loftus Cheek is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Vardy is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Lukaku and Lacazette is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Morata, Kane, Aguero and Jesus are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GW10 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Salah was the captain in 5/10 of the FPL managers team
Richarlison, Sanchez, Lacazette , Sterling and Aguero was the captain in 1/10 teams
FORMATIONS
7/10 managers played 3-4-3 this week
2/10 managers played 3-5-2
1/10 managers played 4-4-2
WILDCARDS, TRANSFERS AND HITS
10/10 have now played their 1st wildcard. 1 manager played it in this round. The team is below
None of the 10 have played their bench boost
0/10 have played their triple captain chip.
0/10 have played their free hit chip
In this round 4 managers took a 4 point deduction for an additional transfer
All 10 of the managers made a transfer.
Transfers in
These transfers do not include the 1 wildcard
Salah was transferred in 4 times
Lacazette was transferred in 3 times
Morata was transferred in twice
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Kane was transferred out 6 times
Sterling, Davies and Chalobah were transferred out twice
No one was transferred out more than once
FOCUS ON 1 MANAGERS TEAM
As we said last week, the celebrity manager we followed last season finished around the 20k mark so he’s not in the group this season. This season were going to focus on the manager each week who had the highest finish last season with an amazing overall rank of 15 believe it or not.
Another good score. His score this week was 64 and he again was the 2nd highest scorer of the 10 and his rank is 178k. An improvement of rank of 208k from last weeks OR of 386k. His points total is 570. He’s the 2nd ranked of the 10 FPL managers
THE HIGHEST SCORER
His score was 66
THE LOWEST SCORER
His score was 41
Firstly 5 of the 11 players were the same plus each had a defender from the same team
I’ve often said that differences in scores in a gameweek come down to 1 of more of the following 3 things normally:
Defence – 10 points difference
Captain – 6 points
A few attackers – 2 attacking players apart from the captains made a difference of 9 points
So the differences were a bit more spread out than in some instances
THE TOP 10K OVERALL RANK VS THE FPL MANAGERS
Lets look at the differences in the teams
Some huge differences between the top 10 managers teams and the current top 10k.
The top 10 managers favour more than the top 10k (using 30% as a significant difference):
Elliot, Foster, S Ward, Richarlison, Mee, Sterling, Choupo Moting and Vardy
The top 10k favour more than the FPL managers (using 30% as a significant difference):
Only De Gea
The top 10 k average score was 47 and the 10 FPL managers average score was 51.
All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery
THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM
This is to give you a menu of players to pick from. It’s not meant to be affordable and this team is valued at £103m on my prices
GW5 TOP 5 OVERALL RANK FOLLOW
You may have seen my recent articles on the top 5 overall ranked FPL managers as at GW5 who I contrasted with the start made by the top 10 managers in this article. In this section we’ll continue to monitor their progress
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