fantasy premier league GW15 – analysing the teams of 10 top FPL managers

Fantasy Premier League, top 10 FPL managers

Here’s our fantasy premier league GW15 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 GW15 – analysing the teams of 10 top FPL managers

If the article is too long there’s a template team for the top 10 FPL managers analysed towards the end of the article

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 poor week for the top 10 FPL managers. Only 3/10 had green arrows.

The average score of the managers in GW14 was 48 compared to the game average of 47. That’s 1 point and 2% above the game average score. High score of the 10 was 58. The low score was 35. A very high spread of 23 for a low scoring gameweek.

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw a worsening to 341k compared to 277k in the last gameweek. An average rank worsening of 64k. The best overall rank is 45k and the lowest 630k.

The average points are 767.

The average value improved from £102.4m to £103.0m

If you’re interested my score was poor at 46 (-4) and resulted in a 46k red arrow from 96k overall rank to 142k . I had a higher score than 3 of the managers. I’m ahead in OR terms at the moment of 9/10 of the managers. My team value is up by £0.7m on the last gameweek to £103.0m. My total points is 786. You can see my early thoughts on the FFGeek team article for GW15

GK/DEFS BY PLAYER

Elliot is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Daniels is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Ward and Mee  are in 5/10 FPL managers teams

Alonso is in 4/10 FPL teams

Pope, Fabianski, Foster, Naughton and Dunk are in 3/10 FPL managers teams

GK/DEFS BY TEAM

Burnley GK/Defs are represented 13 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Newcastle are represented 12 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Chelsea and Swansea GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Bournemouth GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

C Palace and Brighton GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

 Liverpool and WBA GK/Defs are represented 3 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

MIDFIELDERS

Salah is in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Richarlison is in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Sane, Loftus Cheek and Hazard are in 5/10 FPL managers teams

D Silva is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Sterling, T Carroll and Gross are in 3/10 FPL managers teams

 Choupo Moting and Pogba  are in 2/10 FPL managers teams

FORWARDS

Kane is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Morata is in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Niasse is  in 3/10 FPL managers teams

Calvert Lewin and Jesus are in 2/10 FPL managers teams

GW14 CAPTAIN CHOICE

Hazard and Kane were captained in 3/10 of the FPL managers teams

Morata was the captain in 2/10 FPL managers teams

Salah and Alonso was the captain in 1/10 FPL managers teams

FORMATIONS

5 managers played 3-4-3

4 managers played 3-5-2

1 manager played 4-4-2

WILDCARDS, TRANSFERS AND HITS

10/10 have now played their 1st wildcard.

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 3 managers took a points deduction for additional transfers. 1 took a 4 point, another an  8 point deduction and amazingly 1 took a 12 pointer

8/10 of the managers made a transfer.

Transfers in

Hazard and Morata were transferred in 4 times

Loftus Cheek and Christensen were transfered in twice

No one else was transferred in more than once

Transfers out

 Vardy,  Luiz and Lukaku were transferred out twice

No one was transferred out more than once

TEAM STRUCTURE OF THE 10 MANAGERS

I won’t update this every week

FOCUS ON 1 MANAGERS TEAM

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.

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A poor score of 40 for this manager. He was the 2nd lowest scorer of the 10 and his rank is 231k. A worsening of rank of 79k from last weeks OR of 152k. His points total is 774. He’s the 3rd equal ranked of the 10 FPL managers. Amazingly he doesn’t own Salah.

THE HIGHEST SCORER

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His score was 58

THE LOWEST SCORER

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His score was 35.

 This was more typical of last season where the differences lie

6 of the 11 players were the same including 5 of the 7 attacking players

As I mention above, I’ve often said that differences in scores in a gameweek come down to 1 of more of the following 3 things normally:

Defence –  12 points difference

Captain – 5 points additional difference

A few attackers – Sterling made an 8 point difference in 2 players with RLC pegging 1 back to him.  I can’t make the maths work?  but you get the idea

THE TOP 10K OVERALL RANK VS THE FPL MANAGERS

Lets look at the differences in the 2

PlayerTop 10k OR10 FPL Managers
GOALKEEPERS
de Gea52%n/a
Elliot14%100%
Courtois9%n/a
Pope9%30%
Foster4%30%
Fabianskin/a30%
DEFENDERS
Azpilicueta36%10%
Mee32%50%
Daniels28%60%
Ward25%50%
Otamendi23%20%
Kolasinac18%n/a
Valencia17%n/a
Dannn/a40%
Naughtonn/a30%
Alonson/a40%
Dunkn/a30%
MIDFIELDERS
Salah90%90%
Sane39%50%
Gross39%30%
Richarlison34%80%
Sterling30%30%
Hazard27%50%
David Silva20%40%
Loftus Cheek8%50%
T Carroll12%30%
FORWARDS
Morata58%70%
Kane54%100%
Aguero24%10%
Lukaku23%10%
Jesus16%20%
Abraham16%10%
Firmino13%n/a
Callum Wilson12%10%
Niasse11%10%

The top 10 managers favour more than the top 10k (using more than 30% as a significant difference)

 

Elliot, Richarlison, Kane, Daniels,  Dann, Alonso and Loftus Cheek

The top 10k favour more than the FPL managers (using more than 30% as a significant difference):

De Gea

The top 10k average score was 49 and the 10 FPL managers average score was 48.

All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery

THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM

Here I’ve tried to replicate a typical structure and players just outside my budget at £104.5m.




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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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