Here’s our fantasy premier league GW37 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 GW37 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 bad week for the top 10 FPL managers. Only 3/10 had green arrows.
The average score of the managers in GW6 was 48 compared to the game average of 44. That’s 4 points and 9% above the game average score. High score of the 10 was 56. The low score was 41. A spread of 15 for an average scoring gameweek.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers stayed the same at 117k the same as the last gameweek. The best overall rank is 11k and the lowest 273k.
The average total points are 2,085
The average team value improved slightly to to £103.4m
If you’re interested my score was relatively good at 58 -4. It resulted in a 5k green arrow to 23k. I had a higher score than all the other managers. I’m ahead in OR terms at the moment of 6 of the 10 managers. My team value is £102.5m. My total points are 2,134 pts. You can see my early thoughts on the FFGeek teams article for GW37.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
De Gea and Morgan are in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Ryan is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Lowton is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Smalling and Alonso are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Christensen 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 GK/Defs are represented 11 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Brighton and Leicester GK/Defs are represented 10 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea and Newcastle GK/Defs are represented 3 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Sterling and Willian are 8/10 FPL managers teams
Salah is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Son HM is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Gudmundsson is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Alli is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Kane is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Vardy is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Barnes are in 5/10 FPL teams
GW36 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Kane was the captain in 6/10 of the FPL managers teams
Salah was the captain in 4/10 of the FPL managers teams
The top 10k Overall rank captained Kane 46%, Salah 45% (provided by FPL Discovery)
The FFGeek poll was Kane 53%, Salah 35%
The FPL advice site with the most traffic was Aubameyang 41%, Kane 27%. It’s been a pattern that the polls under represent the captaining of Salah by the top 10k
FORMATIONS
7/10 played 3-4-3
3/10 played 3-5-2
WILDCARDS, TRANSFERS AND HITS
10/10 have now played their 2nd wildcard. 1 manager played it in GW36.
9/10 of the managers made a transfer.
Transfers in
I’ve ignored the wildcard in this
Sterling was transferred in 6 times
Kane was transferred in twice
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
I’ve ignored the wildcard in this
Mahrez was transferred out 6 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 56 points and has an OR of 11k. He made 3 transfers for a -8. Sterling for Mahrez, Jesus for Vardy and Smalling for Alonso. 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:
| GKs | top 10k | 10 Managers |
| De Gea | 57 | 90 |
| Pope | 12 | n/a |
| Lloris | 5 | n/a |
| Ederson | 5 | n/a |
| Dubravka | 2 | n/a |
| Karius | 2 | n/a |
| Hennessey | 2 | n/a |
| Ryan | n/a | 80 |
| DEFs | ||
| Lowton | 41 | 70 |
| Smalling | 36 | 40 |
| Morgan | 23 | 90 |
| Davies | 21 | n/a |
| Chilwell | 18 | 10 |
| Robertson | 18 | 10 |
| Vertonghen | 17 | 20 |
| Otamendi | 15 | n/a |
| Tarkowski | 15 | 30 |
| MIDs | ||
| Salah | 80 | 70 |
| Sterling | 55 | 80 |
| Willian | 46 | 80 |
| Son | 43 | 50 |
| Mahrez | 26 | 10 |
| Milivojevic | 23 | n/a |
| Eriksen | 15 | 10 |
| FWDs | ||
| Kane | 73 | 100 |
| Jesus | 45 | 20 |
| Vardy | 40 | 60 |
| Barnes | 31 | 50 |
| Lukaku | 21 | n/a |
| Firmino | 18 | n/a |
| Aubameyang | 15 | n/a |
The top 10k favour more than the FPL managers (using more than 30% as a significant difference):
No one
The top 10 managers favour more than the top 10k (using more than 30% as a significant difference)
De Gea, Ryan, Morgan
The top 10k average score was 49 and the 10 FPL managers average score was also 49.
All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery
THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM
This is the illustrative combined team for the top 10 managers if you like. It’s cost is around £103m.
WHO COULD HURT YOUR RANK IF YOU DON’T OWN THEM
I used 7/10 ownership of the top 10 managers as a proxy for active FPL managers and/0r 70% of the top 10k as a starting point.
De Gea or a Man Utd defender, Sterling, Salah, and Kane would be the risky players not to own in my view
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