Here’s our fantasy premier league GW19 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 GW18 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 reasonable week for the top 10 FPL managers. 7/10 had green arrows.
The average score of the managers in GW18 was 63 compared to the game average of 52. That’s 11 points and 21% above the game average score. High score of the 10 was 86. The low score was 51. A high spread of 35 for a reasonably high scoring gameweek.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw an improvement of rank to to 390k compared to 411k in the last gameweek. An average rank improvement of 21k. The best overall rank is 71k and the lowest 933k.
The average total points are 970
The average value stayed the same at to £103.3m
If you’re interested my score was pretty good at 68 and resulted in a 23k green arrow from 86k overall rank to 63k . I had a higher score than 9 of the 10 managers. I’m ahead in OR terms at the moment of all 10 of the managers. My team value is up £0.2m to £103.7m. My total points is 1016 pts. You can see my early thoughts on the FFGeek team article for GW19.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
Elliot is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Jones and Mee are in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Christensen and S Ward are in 4/10 FPL teams
Pope, Fabianski, Foster, Daniels, Naughton, Ogbonna 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 10 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea are represented 7 times in the 10 managers teams.
Brighton and Swansea GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
West Ham and C Palace GK/Defs are represented 4 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Hazard is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Salah is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Richarlison is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Loftus Cheek is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Coutinho, Sterling, T Carroll and Gross are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Kane is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Calvert Lewin is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Morata is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Aguero is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GW18 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Hazard was the captain in 9/10 of the FPL managers teams
Salah was the captain in 1/10 FPL managers teams
The top 10k Overall rank captained Salah 39% and Hazard 23% (provided by FPL Discovery)
The FFGeek poll was Hazard 35% and Salah 29%
FORMATIONS
Sorry 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 a 4 point deduction for an additional transfer.
8/10 of the managers made a transfer.
Transfers in
P Jones was transferred in 5 times
Calvert Lewin was transferred in 3 times
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Niasse, Daniels, Moreno and Kiko Feminia were transferred out twice
No one was transferred out more than once
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. The 3 years before that his ranks were 5,529. 1, 550 and 759.
A fantastic score of 86 for the manager. He was the highest scorer of the 10 for the 2nd consecutive week and his rank is 86k. A improvement of rank of 144k from last weeks OR of 230k. His points total is 1008. He’s the 2nd ranked of the 10 FPL managers. Amazingly he doesn’t still doesn’t own Salah.
THE HIGHEST SCORER
The above manager with 86
THE LOWEST SCORER
This manager had 51 points
Again different than what I think normally separates sides. A big difference in defence which I would expect but very few attacking players the same and no captain difference
Defence – 15 points difference
Captain – 0 points additional difference
A few attackers – only 3 of the 7 attacking players are the same which is unusual. 20 points difference between the 4 different players
THE TOP 10K OVERALL RANK VS THE FPL MANAGERS
Lets look at the differences in the 2
GKS | top 10k | 10 FPL managers |
de Gea | 58 | n/a |
Pope | 12 | 30 |
Courtois | 8 | n/a |
Fabianski | 4 | 30 |
Foster | 2 | 30 |
DEFS | ||
Otamendi | 45 | 30 |
Azpilicueta | 25 | 10 |
Monreal | 23 | n/a |
Kolasinac | 18 | n/a |
Valencia | 18 | n/a |
Jones | 17 | 50 |
Christensen | 17 | 40 |
Ward | 13 | 40 |
Daniels | 9 | 30 |
Naughton | n/a | 30 |
Ogbonna | n/a | 30 |
Mee | n/a | 50 |
Dunk | n/a | 30 |
MIDS | ||
Salah | 96 | 90 |
Hazard | 39 | 100 |
Sterling | 37 | 30 |
Richarlison | 35 | 80 |
David Silva | 34 | n/a |
De Bruyne | 22 | n/a |
Gross | 17 | 30 |
Loftus Cheek | 19 | 50 |
T Carroll | 7 | 30 |
Coutinho | n/a | 30 |
FWDS | ||
Kane | 57 | 100 |
Morata | 29 | 50 |
Firmino | 27 | 10 |
Calvert-Lewin | 24 | 70 |
Lukaku | 17 | 10 |
Vardy | 17 | 10 |
Rooney | 17 | n/a |
Aguero | n/a | 30 |
The top 10 managers favour more than the top 10k (using more than 30% as a significant difference)
Elliot, Richarlison, Mee, Jones, Hazard, Kane and Calvert Lewin
The top 10k favour more than the FPL managers (using more than 30% as a significant difference):
De Gea and D Silva
The top 10k average score was 59 and the 10 FPL managers average score was 61.
All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery
THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM
Here I’ve tried to replicate a typical structure and players just inside my budget of around £103.7m
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