Here’s the latest article reviewing 10 top FPL managers and how they did in FPL gameweek 4 but also what theyre planning for GW5. 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 GW5 – 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
GW4 average score and rank
The GW4 average score was 70 against an average of 52 points. Thats 18 points and 35% higher
The top 10 FPL managers average rank at the moment is still quite low at 243,857. The highest is 1,900 and the lowest 1.1m
The average team value
The average team value is £101.5 up from £101.1m
GK/DEFS by player
3 managers have used their wildcard so there will be big differences from last week
Krul, Hutton, Wisdom and N Taylor are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
De Gea, Clyne, Moore, Terry, Chambers, Van Aanholt 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
Chelsea and Arsenal have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea, Man Utd, Liverpool, Southampton, and Villa have 4 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sigurdsson is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Fabregas is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Sterling is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Ramsey is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Di Maria and Boyd are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Costa is owned by 9/10 FPL managers teams
Rooney is owned by 5/10 FPL managers
Welbeck is owned by 4/10 FPL managers teams
GW4 transfers
The 3 Wildcards used have distorted the transfers so I’ve left this out this week
GW4 Captain choice
Costa was captained 5 times
Rooney was captained 3 times
Sterling was captained twice
How many took hits?
3/10 of the FPL managers took a 4 point hit. 3 did use wildcards though
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 8 times
3-5-2 was used twice
How many have used their wildcard?
3 the FPL managers used their wildcard now 4 in total. These transfers have not been recognised as they’re too difficult to follow
Team source
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.
High ownership players
The 6 players over 30% ownership prior to the transfer deadline were:
Costa (54%) owned by 9/10
Sterling (47%) owned by 6/10
Fabregas(44%) owned by 9/10
Ramsey (42%) owned by 5/10
Siggy (39%) owned by 9/10
Rooney (35%) owned by 5/10
Naismith (34%) owned by 0/10
Team structure
GKs
4/10 FPL managers played elite keepers.
3/10 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
3/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
2/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
Whether they played 5 or 4 midfielders only 1 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.
The forwards
3 teams had 3 forwards over £10m the rest playing 3-4-3 jad one cheaper player with Welbeck being the most common.
Here’s a team to summarise the top 10 current position. It’s under £101.0m in value
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