A week of divergent scores with the 3 FPL managers still with wildcards getting point scores 85, 79 and 95 respectively from the DGW.
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 GW35 – 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
GW34 average score and rank
The GW34 average score of the FPL managers was 73 compared to the average of 52 points. Thats 21 points and 40% above the average. The high score was 95. The low score 55. Thats a big spread of 40 points.
The average of the top 10 FPL managers increased to 12,950 improving from 14,900 last week. The highest is approximately 450 and the lowest 56k.
6/10 managers are still under the magic 10k mark which is the same as last week. However still 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 is exactly the same at £106.6m as per last week.
GK/DEFS by player
Van Aanholt is owned by 7/10 top FPL managers
Ivanovic is owned by 6/10 of the FPL managers
Terry and Schmeicel are owned by 5/10 of the FPL managers
Pantilimon and Skrtel are owned by 4/10 FPL managers
Clyne, Schlupp, Bruce and Moreno are owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Chelsea have 13 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Sunderland have 12 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Leicester have 10 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Liverpool have 9 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA and Hull have 4 players in the FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Hazard is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Sterling is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Silva and Sanchez are in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Henderson is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Fabregas is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Kane and Aguero are owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Vardy is owned by 4/10 FPL managers
GW34 transfers
These transfers exclude the 3 wildcards used as they are too hard to track with multiple ins and outs
Most transferred in
Henderson x 4
Sterling x 3
Moreno and Skrtel x 2
Most transferred out
Remy and Giroud x 3
Eriksen x 5
Rose x 2
Most common transfer
Eriksen to Skrtel x 2
Eriksen to Henderson x 2
Rose to Skrtel x 2
The average day of the transfers was Thursday 23rd April
GW34 Captain choice
Hazard x 10
How many took hits?
3/10 of the FPL managers took a hit.
What was the most popular formation?
I’ve ignored this again this week as the wildcard change regular formations so it’s not indicative of an overall trend which is clearly towards 3-4-3
How many have used their wildcard?
The last 3 players who hadn’t used their wildcard now have and 10 FPL managers have used their regular season wildcard now.
The number of double gameweek players used
The average number of double gameweek players was 7. Of the 3 managers that used their wildcard 2 had 10 double gameweek players and 1 had 9.
Team source
Mane and Clyne 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
4/10 FPL manager played 1 elite keeper.
0/10 FPL managers played a cheapie GK with back up from the same team
6/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them above
1/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
6/10 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. 8 had 1 mid and 2 cheap players. 2 had 1 mid and 1 cheap
Here’s a team to represent that. It is around £106.7m which is around the FPL managers average value.
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fantasy premier league GW35
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