fantasy premier league GW35 tips – analysing the teams of 10 top FPL managers

The roller coaster DGW34 was relatively successful for the 10 FPL managers with 9/10 getting green arrows. Here’s our fantasy premier league GW35 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 GW35 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.  If you want to see how any of the players performed in the last gameweek most will be in Joseph Crilleys GW34 review

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 good week for the top 10 FPL managers. 9/10 had green arrows.

The average score of the managers in GW34 was 94 compared to the game average of 64. That’s 30 points and 47% above the game average score. High score of the 10 was 110. The low score was 64. A spread of 46 for a high scoring gameweek.

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw an improvement of rank to 149k compared to 188k in the last gameweek. An average rank improvement of 39k. The best overall rank is 17k and the lowest 364k.

The average total points are 1,976

The average team value worsened slightly to to £103.5m

I’m doing my team article later tonight so I’ll give the details of my teams performance then.

GK/DEFS BY PLAYER

The composition of players in all positions doesn’t include the 1 free hit team.

De Gea and Morgan are in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Ryan is in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Alonso and Lowton are in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Christensen, Smalling and Tarkowski are in 3/10 FPL managers teams

GK/DEFS BY TEAM

Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 14 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Burnley and Brighton GK/Defs are represented 12 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Chelsea and Leicester defences are represented 10 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Southampton GK/Defs are represented 3 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Spurs and Arsenal GK/Defs are represented 2 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

MIDFIELDERS

Mahrez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Willian is in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Son and Salah are in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Gudmundsson is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Gross is in 3/10 FPL managers teams

FORWARDS

Kane and Vardy are in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Barnes are in 5/10 FPL teams

Lukaku is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

GW34 CAPTAIN CHOICE

Kane was the captain in 6/10 of the FPL managers teams

Lukaku was the captain in 3/10 of the FPL managers teams

Sanchez was the captain in 1/10 FPL teams

The top 10k Overall rank captained Lukaku 37%, Kane 31% and Salah, Vardy and Sanchez 6% (provided by FPL Discovery)

The FFGeek poll was Lukaku 46%, Kane 28%

The FPL advice site with the most traffic was Lukaku 34%, Kane 27%

FORMATIONS

 The bench boosting made this irrelevant this week

WILDCARDS, TRANSFERS AND HITS

9/10 have now played their 2nd wildcard.

9 of the 10 have played their bench boost.  All played it this week

3/10 have played their triple captain chip.

2/10 played their free hit chip. 1 in this gameweek.

In this round 0 managers took a 4 point deduction for additional transfers.

9/10 of the managers made a transfer.

Transfers in

I’ve ignored the free hit of 1 manager in this

Lukaku and Kane were transferred in 3 times

No one else was transferred in more than once

Transfers out

Aubameyang was transferred out 6 times

Mee was transferred out 2 times

No one else was transferred out more than once

THE HIGHEST RANKED MANAGER

I’ve decided to change this to just show you the team of the highest ranked manager

He scored 98 points and has an OR of 17k. He made 2 transfers. Kane in Aubameyang out.  Barnes in Murray out.  This managers TV is £105.2m.  His last 3 years history are 3,874, 796 and 8,391

THE TOP 10K OVERALL RANK VS THE FPL MANAGERS

Lets look at the differences in the 2:

The top 10k favour more than the FPL managers (using more than 30% as a significant difference):

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The top 10 managers favour more than the top 10k (using more than 30% as a significant difference)

De Gea, Ryan, Alonso, Lowton, Morgan, Mahrez, Willian, Gudmundsson

The top 10k average score was 83 and the 10 FPL managers average score was 94.

All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery

THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM

This is the illustrative combines team for the top 10 managers if you like. It’s cost is around £104.3m. It’s worth noting that 9/10 have their free hit intact  so there’s no prep for GW35 where I expect most will use the free hit chip

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