fantasy premier league GW7 tips – analysing the teams of 10 top FPL managers

Fantasy Premier League, top 10 FPL managers

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.

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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

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His score of 78 took him to 613k OR and 342 points. He’s the 3rd ranked of the 10 managers

THE LOWEST SCORER

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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




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This got him a score of 74 points and he is ranked 712k

The top 10k overall rank vs the FPL managers

Player10k OR %Managers %
De Gea4220
Courtois11n/a
Elliot1090
Fostern/a70
Davies2980
Valencia28n/a
Alonso2440
Otamendi21n/a
Walker20n/a
Meen/a70
Jonesn/a40
Salah5650
Mkhitaryan4960
Eriksen3540
Silva3210
Carrolln/a90
Atsun/a40
Alli2820
Lukaku7470
Aguero48100
Firmino3730
Chicharito17n/a
Kanen/a80

 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

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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

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