Here’s the latest article reviewing 10 top FPL managers and how they did in FPL gameweek 16. 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. A very interesting round with multiple transfers due to the Aguero injury.
fantasy premier league GW17 – 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.
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
GW16 average score and rank
The GW16 average score was 64 against an average of 47 points. Thats 17 points and 36% higher.
Despite that the average of the top 10 FPL managers at the moment is down at 39,600 from 30,000 last week. The highest is approximately 250 and the lowest 303k. The average is a bit misleading as only 3 managers are outside the top 20k. The one manager around 303k is dragging the average down.
The average team value
The average team value is 105.4 up from £104.8m
GK/DEFS by player
Chambers is owned by 7/10 top FPL managers
Hutton is owned by 6/10 FPL managers
Baines, Clyne, Wisdom and Taylor are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Guzan, Foster, Pantillimon, Moore Dummett and Yun are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Villa have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA and Arsenal have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea and Everton have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
QPR have 4 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sanchez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Siggy is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Downing and Boyd are in 5/10 FPL managers teams
YYT is in 4/10 teams
Forwards
Costa is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Austin and Dzeko are owned by 5/10 FPL managers teams
Rooney is owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GW16 transfers
The most transferred in players were:
Dzeko x 5
YYT x 4
Pantilimon x2
Rooney x 2
The most transferred out were:
Aguero x 10
Fabregas x 3
Chadli x 2
Courtois x 2
The most common transfers were:
Aguero to Dzeko x 5
Chadli to YYT x 2
Aguero to Rooney x 2
The average transfer time was early this week on Wednesday 10th December
GW16 Captain choice
Hazard was captained 7 times
Costa was captain twice
Sanchez was captained once
How many took hits?
6/10 of the FPL managers took hits. 1 took an 8 point hit. Another took a 12 point hit
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 4 times
3-5-2 was used 6 times
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their wildcard now.
Team source
Downing Tadic, Benteke 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 (59%) owned by 10/10 of the managers
Siggy (50%) owned by 9/10
Fabregas (40%) owned by 2/10
Sanchez (39%) owned by 10/10
Clyne (34%) owned by 4/10
Sterling (32%) owned by 0/10
Team structure
GKS
1/10 FPL managers played elite keepers.
5/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
4/10 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
7 team had 1 forwards over £10m. 6 had 1 mid priced forward and 1 cheap priced forward. 1 had 2 mid priced forward
3 Teams had 2 forwards over £10m. 2 had a cheap forward along side. 1 had a midpriced forward
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. It’s very affordable as money at the moment is not particularly the issue. Remember it’s also a team for GW16 which is why Dzeko is in there even though he’s injured
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fantasy premier league GW17
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