With 500k transfers in this was the week of Aguero. See how the top 10 FPL managers reacted. Here’s our fantasy premier league GW7 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 GW7 TIPS – ANALYSING THE TEAMS OF 10 TOP FPL MANAGERS
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 reasonably good week for the top 10 FPL managers. 7/10 had red arrows.
The average score of the managers in GW6 was 69 compared to the average of 60. That’s 9 points and 15% above the average score. High score of the 10 was 78. The low score was 64. A spread of 14 for a fairly high scoring gameweek. It should be noted that 6 managers took a 4 point hit.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw an improvement to 1.016 million compared to 1.172 million in the last gameweek. An average rank improvement of 156k. The best rank is 367k and the lowest 2.027 million. If you calculated the median rank then that worsened to 1.043 million compared to 1.173 million last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 130k. Only 4 managers have overall ranks better than 1 million.
The average points are 332.
The average value improved significantly from £100.6m to £101.1m
If you’re interested my score was fairly ordinary at 69 with an 8 point hit and resulted in a 81k red arrow from 210k overall rank to 291k . I had a lower score than all but 5 the 10 managers. However I’m ahead in OR terms of all 10 of the top managers. My team value is up £0.1m on the last gameweek to £100.8m. My total score is 356 points.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
Elliot is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Davies is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Mee and Foster are in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Alonso and Jones are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Cedric, Long, Naugton and Bertrand are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GK/DEFS BY TEAM
Newcastle GK/Defs are represented 13 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA GK/Defs are represented 10 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Spurs GK/Defs are represented 9 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Burnley GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton and Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea GK Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea GK defs are represented 4 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Tom Carroll is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Mkhitaryan is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Salah is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Atsu, Eriksen and Chalobah are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Ritchie is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Aguero is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Kane is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Lukaku is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Firmino is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GW6 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Aguero was the captain in 10/10 of the FPL managers teams
FORMATIONS
3-4-3 was used in 6 of the 10 managers teams
4-3-3 was used in 3/10 managers teams
4-4-2 was used in 1/10 managers teams
WILDCARDS, TRANSFERS AND HITS
4/10 have now played their 1st wildcard. One played in this round. You can see it below.
None of the 10 have played their bench boost
0/10 have played their triple captain chip.
0/10 have played their free hit chip
In this round 6 managers took a 4 point hit.
10 of the 10 managers made a transfer including the WC.
Transfers in
These don’t include the WC transfer
Atsu was transferred in 3 times
Aguero was transferred in 9 times (plus the WC)
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Not counting wildcard transfers
Kane was transferred out 2 times
Alli was transferred out 2 times
Chicharito was transferred out 2 times
No one else was transferred out more than once
FOCUS ON 1 MANAGERS TEAM
As we said last week, the celebrity manager we followed last season finished around the 20k mark so he’s not in the group this season. This season were going to focus on the manager each week who had the highest finish with an amazing overall rank of 15 last season believe it or not.
This week he took a 4 points hit for 3 transfers as he had carried 1 over from the week before. His transfers were
Naughton in Stephens out
Aguero in Kane out
Kolasinac in Lowe out
His score this week was 65 so he was the 2nd lowest scorer this week and his rank is 596k. An worsening of rank of 98k from last weeks OR of 498k. His points total is 343. He’s the 2nd ranked of the 10 FPL managers
THE HIGHEST SCORER
His score of 78 took him to 613k OR and 342 points. He’s the 3rd ranked of the 10 managers
THE LOWEST SCORER
His score of 64 took him to 1.055 million OR and 329 points. He’s the 6th ranked of the 10 managers. The formation was the result of the Chalobah automatic substitution.
THE WILDCARD TEAM
This got him a score of 74 points and he is ranked 712k
The top 10k overall rank vs the FPL managers
Player | 10k OR % | Managers % |
De Gea | 42 | 20 |
Courtois | 11 | n/a |
Elliot | 10 | 90 |
Foster | n/a | 70 |
Davies | 29 | 80 |
Valencia | 28 | n/a |
Alonso | 24 | 40 |
Otamendi | 21 | n/a |
Walker | 20 | n/a |
Mee | n/a | 70 |
Jones | n/a | 40 |
Salah | 56 | 50 |
Mkhitaryan | 49 | 60 |
Eriksen | 35 | 40 |
Silva | 32 | 10 |
Carroll | n/a | 90 |
Atsu | n/a | 40 |
Alli | 28 | 20 |
Lukaku | 74 | 70 |
Aguero | 48 | 100 |
Firmino | 37 | 30 |
Chicharito | 17 | n/a |
Kane | n/a | 80 |
Lets look at the differences in the teams
The top 10 managers favour more than the top 10k (using 30% as a significant difference):
Elliot, Foster, Davies, Mee, Jones, Aguero and Kane
The top 10k favour more than the FPL managers (using 30% as a significant difference):
No one
The top 10 k average score was 64 and the FPL managers average score was 69.
All this information is from the excellent site FPL discovery
How many had the Aguero Kane Lukaku front 3?
5 of the 10 had the Aguero, Kane Lukaku front 3 (average score net of hits 69)
3 of the 10 had a Kane Aguero front 3 (average score net of hits 67)
2 had a Lukaku Aguero front 3 (average score net of hits 65)
THE COMBINED TOP 10 FPL MANAGERS TEAM
This is to give you a menu of players to pick from. It’s not meant to be affordable. This team is £6m over my team value
GW5 TOP 5 OVERALL RANK FOLLOW
You may have seen my article last week on the top 5 overall ranked FPL managers as at GW5 who I contrasted with the start made by the top 10 managers in this article. In this section we’ll continue to monitor their progress
Here’s a simple chart which we will keep updated
Play a new kind of fantasy football
Follow us on twitter and facebook and instagram for article updates and news
GEEK LEAGUES
Sun: FantasyFootballGeek SGDKX9Y3
TFF: FantasyFootballGeek PIN 8000919 Passcode 1159
Sky: FFGeek 8310511
FPL: 5379-1967
UCL: 18664FKG
TFF UCL: FantasyFootballGeek PIN 8137738 Passcode 1210