A really interesting week for our 10 top FPL managers. The post Aguero world has thrown the captain choice wide open and in this article we’ve seen 8 different captain choices. A close to template midfield and 2/3 of the forward positions have seen the defence suddenly become an area of difference.
If you have seen the articles before this is the latest in the series where we follow the teams of 10 top managers. 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 GW18 – 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
GW17 average score and rank
The GW17 average score was 69 against an average of 47 points. Thats 22 points and 47% higher.
Despite that the average of the top 10 FPL managers at the moment is improved to 27,500 up from 39,600 last week. The highest is approximately 350 and the lowest 192k. The one manager improving to around 190k from around 303k improved the average. 6/10 managers are now under the magic 10k mark.
The average team value
The average team value is 105.3 slightly down from 105.4
GK/DEFS by player
Chambers is owned by 7/10 top FPL managers
Hutton is owned by 5/10 FPL managers
Baines, Wisdom and Taylor are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Guzan, Foster, Pantilimon, Dummett and Yun are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Villa have 8 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
Everton have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Newcastle and 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 8/10 FPL managers teams
Downing is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd and YYT are in 4/10 teams
Forwards
Costa is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Austin is owned by 7/10 FPL managers teams
Rooney and Kame is owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GW17 transfers
The most transferred in players were:
Silva x 2
Austin x 2
RVP x2
Kane x 2
The most transferred out were:
Dzeko x 5
The most common transfers were:
Dzeko to Kane x 2
Dzeko to Austin x 2
The average transfer time was early this week on Thursday 18th December
GW17 Captain choice
YYT and RVP were captained twice
Silva, Costa, Hazard, RVP, Downing, Nasri and Kane were all 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 8 times
3-5-2 was used twice
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their wildcard now.
Team source
Downing, Benteke, Bony 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 (60%) owned by 10/10 of the managers
Siggy (49%) owned by 9/10
Fabregas (40%) owned by 2/10
Sanchez (40%) owned by 10/10
Clyne (33%) owned by 3/10
Sterling (30%) 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
0/10 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
1/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
2 FPL managers played 5 proper midfielders
8 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
The forwards
5 team had 1 forwards over £10m. 3 had 1 mid priced forward and 1 cheap priced forward. 2 had 2 cheap forwards
5 Teams had 2 forwards over £10m. All had a cheap forward along side.
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. It’s affordable at around £103m
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fantasy premier league GW18
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