Here’s the latest article reviewing 10 top FPL managers and how they did in FPL gameweek 15. As you would have heard before if you’ve seen the article, 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 theyre holding or selling a player when you are.
fantasy premier league GW16 – 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. Interestingly this is one of the worst rounds for the top 10 managers but as teamsin the top 10k are very similar the ranks and the averages weren’t significantly affected
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
GW15 average score and rank
The GW15 average score was 34 against an average of 33 points. Thats 1 points and 3% higher.
Despite that the average of the top 10 FPL managers at the moment is 30,000 up from 32,000 last week. The highest is approximately 180 and the lowest 215k. The average is a bit misleading as only 3 managers are outside the top 20k. The one manager around 215k is dragging the average down
The average team value
The average team value is steady at £104.8m
GK/DEFS by player
Chambers is owned by 9/10 top FPL managers
Hutton is owned by 6/10 FPL managers
Moore Clyne, Wisdom and Taylor are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Guzan, Foster, Baines, Moore Dummett and Yun are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Arsenal and Villa have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA and Swansea have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Everton have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
QPR have 4 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Siggy and Sanchez are in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd and Fabregas are in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Aguero and Costa are owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Austin is owned by 5/10 FPL managers teams
GW15 transfers
The most transferred in players were:
Costa x 3
Austin x 2
The most transferred out were:
Krul x 2
The most common transfers were:
No transfer was made more than once
The average transfer time was Friday 5th December 2014
GW15 Captain choice
Aguero was captained 10 times
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 was used once
4-3-3 was used once
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their wildcard now.
Team source
Downing Tadic 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 7 players over 30% ownership prior to the transfer deadline were approximately:
Costa (51%) owned by 10/10 of the managers
Siggy (50%) owned by 9/10
Fabregas (49%) owned by 6/10
Sanchez (37%) owned by 9/10
Aguero (36%) owned by 10/10
Sterling (33%) owned by 0/10
Clyne (33%) owned by 4/10
Team structure
GKS
2/10 FPL managers played elite keepers.
6/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
2/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
1/10 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
In midfield
1 FPL manager played 2 rotating cheapies as well as 3 proper midfielders
2 FPL managers played 5 proper midfielders
7 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
The forwards
1 team had 3 forwards over £10m.
9 Teams had 2 forwards over £10m. 8 had a cheap forward along side. 1 had a midpriced forward
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. It is affordable at around £103m but it doesn’t take into account events post GW15 so Aguero and Chambers stay in it
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