Here’s my latest article reviewing 10 top FPL managers and how they did in FPL gameweek 3 but also what theyre planning for GW4. These aren’t just managers successful now but managers who have been successful for the last 3 years. The 10 managers have never been 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 theyre holding or selling a player when you are.
fantasy premier league GW4 – analysing 10 top FPL managers
First off all I’ll give the new mangers 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 on FPL to summarise the position:
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
GW3 average score and rank
The GW3 average score was 52 against an average of 42 points. Thats 14 points and 33% higher
The top 10 FPL managers average rank at the moment is still quite low at 313,082. The highest is 11,600 and the lowest 1.3m
The average team value
The average team value is £101.1m
GK/DEFS by player
Krul and N Taylor are owned by 5/10 of the FPL managers
Wisdom and Chester are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Foster De Gea, Hutton, Debuchy, Chambers, Terry and Jones are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
WBA and Newcastle have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Man Utd and Arsenal have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea and Hull have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Aston Villa have 4 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Ramsey is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Sigurdsson is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Fabregas is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Mata is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard and Sterling are owned by 3/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Rooney is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Costa is owned by 6/10 FPL managers
Jovetic is owned by 5/10 FPL managers teams
GW3 transfers
The most transferred in players were:
Jovetic x 5. This appears to be a form transfer with a supposed easy game next if not easy ongoing fixtures
Sterling x 2. This appears to be a form and high ownership transfer not related to an immediate fixture. Although Liverpool have genera;lly good fixtures.
No one else was transferred in more than once.
Transferred out players:
Costa x 3. This was related to a supposed injury
Bojan x 3. This was related to him being left on the bench.
None were in my bandwagon or sinking ships list.
The average time the transfers were undertaken was the Wednesday 27th August.
GW3 Captain choice
Rooney was captained 7 times
Ramsey was captained twice
Aguero was captained once
How many took hits?
1/10 of the FPL managers took a 4 point hits
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 6 times
3-5-2 was used 3 times
4-4-2 was used once
How many have used their wildcard?
1 of the FPL managers used their wildcard. These transfers have not been recognised as theyre too difficult to follow
Team source
Tadic, Bony and Siggy are the only players in the 10 FPL managers teams over £6.0m that are outside the top 4 challenging teams of Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Spurs and Man Utd. Swansea and Southampton have good fixtures
High ownership players
The 6 players over 30% ownership prior to the transfer deadline were:
Ramsey (47%) owned by 10/10
Rooney (43%) owned by 10/10
Costa (39%) owned by 6/10
Sterling (39%) owned by 3/10
Fabregas (37%) owned by 6/10
Siggy (33%) owned by 8/10
Team structure
GKs
3/10 FPL managers played elite keepers. This was only De Gea
4/10 FPL managers played rotating home and away cheapies
3/10 just played 1 cheapie with the teams reserve GK as cover
In defence
3/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them
2/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
4/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
1/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
Whether they played 5 or 4 midfielders only 2 played 2 rotating cheapies the rest proper midfielders and a cheap reserve. Generally a cheaper forward or defender was employed in order to acheive this.
Here;s a team to summarise the top 10 current position:
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