Here’s our regular feature where we analyse the teams of 10 top FPL managers who in the last 3 seasons none have finished outside the top 10k. The top 10 Managers have played 30 times in the last 3 years and none have finished outside the top 10k in that time. 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. This week was a great week with 8 of the 10 having green arrows.
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE GW15 TIPS – ANALYSING 10 TOP FPL MANAGERS
THE 10 MANAGERS FPL STATS
The stats of the top 10 managers are incredible again this season.
1. The overall average finishing position of the top 10 managers is 2,943
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
GAMEWEEK SUMMARY
A good week for the top 10 FPL managers. 8 of the 10 had green arrows.
The average score of the managers in GW14 was 76 compared to the average of 50. Thats 26 points and 52% above the average score. The high score of the 10 was 97. The low score was 52. An expected high spread of 45 for a high scoring gameweek.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers took a big leap forward to 220k compared to the last gameweek of 323k. An improvement of rank of 103k. The best rank is 1,400 and the lowest 778k. A couple of scores are distorting the average. If you calculated the median rank then that is 89k compared to 180k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 91k. At the moment 6 have overall ranks inside 100k. 1 is inside the top 10k.
The average value is up significantly from last week at £104.3m from £103.5m last gameweek.
If you’re interested my score was again terrible at 55. Only 1 of the managers had a lower gameweek score. My overall rank is now 329k compared to 228k last gameweek. A worsening of rank of 101k. I’m still ahead of 2 of the top 10 managers. My team value is low though in comparison at £103.3m up from £102.6m last gameweek. My total score is 726 points.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
Holebas, Amat and Pickford are in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Foster is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Lovren and Heaton are in 4/10 of the FPL managers teams
McAuley, Pieters, Jakupovic, A Smith, Walker are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GK/DEFS BY TEAM
WBA GK/Defs are represented 12 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Sunderland and Watford GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Hull and Stoke GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 of the FPL managers teams
Burnley GK/Defs are represented 4 times in the 10 of the FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Firmino is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Sigurdsson is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Sanchez and Hazard are 6/10 of the FPL managers teams
Fletcher is in 5/10 of the FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Kane is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Aguero and Austin are in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Costa, Benteke and Defoe are in 2/10 FPL managers teams
GW14 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Kane was the captain in 8/10 teams
Sanchez was the captains in 2/10 teams
FORMATION
9 FPL managers played 3-4-3
1 FPL managers played 3-5-2
TRANSFERS
Wildcards, Transfers and Hits
10/10 have now played their wildcards.
In this round 4 managers took a 4 points hit.
9 of the 10 managers made a transfer
Transfers in
Kane was transferred in 7 times
Sigurdsson was transferred in 5 times
Walcott was transferred in twice
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Coutinho was transferred out twice
Lukaku was transferred out 4 times
Aguero was transferred out twice
No one else was transferred out more than once
COMPARISON WITH THE TOP 10K
Here’s a comparison with the how the top 10k overall rank average team looks like. The information is provided by the excellent site FPL discovery.
The top 10k average score was 66 compared to the Top FPL managers of 76.
What it does show is that the top 10 fpl managers I follow have some big differences (30% difference is the benchmark) with the top 10k rank. Here are the main ones:
The top 10k favour the following significantly more than the managers I follow:
Capoue and Costa
The 10 Managers I follow favour the following more significantly than the top 10k
Foster Amat, Holebas, Firmino, Sigurdsson Aguero and Kane
FOCUS ON 1 MANAGERS TEAM
Again we focus on the managers team who last season finished the highest of my then top 10 FPL managers ending up in 1,400th position. This manager is the closest thing to a fantasy football celebrity there is due to his consistent results so we’ll keep an eye on him. At present he is in 47k overall rank a big improvement in rank from the last gameweek of 75k. His total points are 781 after a good score of 79 this gameweek. Just to give you a bit of context his last 3 years overall rankings have been 1,450, 277 and 90.
This week he will obviously take Aguero out. Not sure who for though
THE HIGHEST SCORING AND LOWEST SCORING MANAGERS IN GW14
Highest scoring
This manager has been struggling but this week alone moved up 200k to 92k to show that recovery can be just around the corner
Lowest scoring team
A bad week against the grain for this manager. Last week he was 16k. this week he’s 50k overall rank
There’s a 45 point difference between the 2 teams. 29 of those points have been accounted for by differences in choice of 2 players from the same team. Sanchez 23 Walcott 3 and Mane 11 Firmino 2. Thats how brutal and how easy it is to go backward and forward. It’s rare that you will see this points difference in teams when they’ve both picked the same captain
TOP 10 MANAGERS COMBINED TEAM
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. Those highlighted are where it’s different to my team. It’s unaffordable at around £105m.
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