fantasy premier league GW16 tips – analysing the teams of 10 top FPL managers

Fantasy Premier League, top 10 FPL managers

Here’s our fantasy premier league GW16 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 GW16 tips – 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 mixed week for the top 10 FPL managers. Only 5/10 had green arrows.

The average score of the managers in GW15 was 49 compared to the game average of 44. That’s 1 point and 11% above the game average score. High score of the 10 was 72. The low score was 37. A very high spread of 35 for a low scoring gameweek.

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw an improvement to 331k compared to 341k in the last gameweek. An average rank improvement of 10k. The best overall rank is 39k and the lowest 692k.

The average points are 816.

The average value stayed level at £103.0m

If you’re interested my score was ok at 53  and resulted in a 22k green arrow from 142k overall rank to 120k . I had a higher score than 6 of the managers. I’m ahead in OR terms at the moment of 9/10 of the managers. My team value is level at £103.0m. My total points is 839 pts. You can see my early thoughts on the FFGeek team article for GW16

GK/DEFS BY PLAYER

Elliot is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Daniels is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Moreno, Ward and Mee are in 5/10 FPL managers teams

Alonso is in 4/10 FPL teams

Christensen, 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 are represented 8 times in the 10 managers teams.

Liverpool, Swansea and Bournemouth GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

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

C Palace,Watford 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

Hazard is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Loftus Cheek is in 5/10 FPL managers teams

Sane and Sterling are in 4/10 FPL managers teams

D Silva, 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 4/10 FPL managers teams

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

GW15 CAPTAIN CHOICE

Kane was the captain in 4/10 of the FPL managers teams

Hazard was the captain in 3/10 FPL managers teams

Sane, Salah and Aguero was the captain in 1/10 FPL managers teams

FORMATIONS

 Not done this week

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 1 managers took an 8 points deduction for additional transfers.

6/10 of the managers made a transfer.

Transfers in

Moreno was transferred in 3 times

No one else was transferred in more than once

Transfers out

Dann and Jones 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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An ok score of 50 for this manager. He was the 6th highest scorer of the 10 and his rank is 217k. A improvement of rank of 14k from last weeks OR of 231k. His points total is 824. He’s the 3rd ranked of the 10 FPL managers. Amazingly he doesn’t own Salah.

THE HIGHEST SCORER

 His score was 72

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THE LOWEST SCORER

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His score was 37.

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This  is a good example of small differences in a team can make a huge score difference

6 of the 11 players were the same including 4 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 – 3 points difference but to the lower scoring team

Captain – 13 points additional difference

A few attackers – 3 attacking players of Hazard, Silva and Morata made a 22 point difference

THE TOP 10K OVERALL RANK VS THE FPL MANAGERS

Lets look at the differences in the 2

Player% top 10k% top 10 managers
de Gea44n/a
Courtois14n/a
Fabianski830
Pope830
Elliotn/a100
Azpilicueta3310
Daniels2460
Kolasinac22n/a
Otamendi2220
Ward3050
Mee2950
Alonso1740
Dunkn/a30
Morenon/a50
Christensenn/a30
Naughtonn/a30
Salah9590
Sterling4240
Richarlison3180
De Bruyne28n/a
Gross3630
Sane2640
Hazard2060
Silva Dn/a30
Loftus Cheek1130
T Carroll1030
Kane53100
Morata5170
Aguero2010
Lukaku1910
Jesus1720
Vardy16n/a
Firmino12n/a

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

Elliot, Richarlison, Kane, Daniels, Hazard, and Moreno

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 48 and the 10 FPL managers average score was 49.

All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery

THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM</h3



Here I’ve tried to replicate a typical structure and players just outside my budget at £103.6m.

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GW5 TOP 5 OVERALL RANK FOLLOW

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