If you had a tough GW29 you’re not alone. None of the top 10 managers I follow even made the average, some barely made half of it such was the difficult nature of the round.
If you haven’t 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 they’re holding or selling a player when you are.
fantasy premier league GW30 – 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 if you don’t want to go through the whole article
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
GW29 average score and rank
The GW29 average score of the FPL managers was 29 compared to the average of 38 points. Thats 9 points and 24% below the average. The high score was 37. The low score 21
The average of the top 10 FPL managers dropprf to approximately 15,700 down from 14,500 last week. The highest is approximately 650 and the lowest 60k.
6/10 managers are still under the magic 10k mark which is the same as last week. However 2 are just outside and it looks on for 8/10 finishing in the top 10k. 1 is in the top 1,000
The average team value
The average team value stayed steady at £106.8m the same as last week.
GK/DEFS by player
Van Aanholt is owned by 7/10 top FPL managers
Rose is owned by 6/10 top FPL managers
Pantilimon and Clyne are owned by 5/10 of the FPL managers
Foster is owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Krul, Koscielny, Ivanovic, Terry and Bruce are owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Sunderland have 13 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea have 8 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA and Spurs have 6 players in the FPL managers teams
Newcastle and Arsenal have 5 players in the FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sanchez and Hazard are in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Eriksen and Silva are in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Boyd is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Kane and Aguero are owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Austin is owned by 5/10 FPL managers
Giroud is owned by 4/10 FPL managers
GW29 transfers
Most transferred in
Ivanovic x 2
Silva x 2
Most transferred out
Eriksen x 3
The average day of the transfers was Thursday 12 March
GW29 Captain choice
Aguero x 8
Sanchez and Hazard 1 each
How many took hits?
2/10 of the FPL managers took a hit.
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used by 10 of the FPL managers
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their regular season wildcard now.
Team source
Mane, Austin, Clyne and Downing 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
I’ve removed this now as there is such a distortion on ownership due to a number of FPL managers having given up on their teams. If anything this article is a good bellweather for leading FPL managers ownership
Team structure
GKS
1/10 FPL manager played and elite keeper.
4/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
5/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them above
2/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
5/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
3/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
2 FPL managers had 5 proper midfielders
8 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
The forwards
10 teams had 1 forward over £10m. 5 had 1 mid and 1 cheap (more than not Giroud and Kane) 5 had 2 cheap (Kane and Austin)
Here’s a team to represent that. It is around £106.3m which is slightly below the FPL managers average value.
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