Continuing the series. The key points are at the top of the article if you just want the highlights. If you haven’t seen it before I’ve sought out the teams of 10 top fantasy premier league managers and analysed who they’ve got in their teams. This is not the current top 10 fantasy premier league leaders but 10 managers who are currently successful and have been successful for the last 3 years. It continues to make interesting reading. However if you can’t be bothered with the detail there’s also a team I’ve put together in the article to represent the top 10 managers and a key point summary at the beginning of the article.
fantasy premier league strategy – analysing 10 top fantasy premier league managers teams – DGW 37
Key Points
- A goodweek where the average score of the 10 was 75 vs average of 62
- Average position 6,200 up from 7,000
- Captain choice in the main Aguer0 8 times
- Main purchases were YYT 7 times and Evra 3 times
- Main sales were Baines 5 times and Rooney 4 times
- 10/10 took hits
- All have used WCs
- Sunderland Crystal Palace Man Utd and Man City are the main defences
- Suarez, Aguero,YYT and Mannone are the must haves. 2nd tier is Ramsey and Eriksen
- The large majority of players over £6m are from top 4 challenging teams
- 3-4-3 only formation this week
Background
Just in case it’s your first time reading this article. In any part of life, sport or business it’s natural to look at the best and see what you can learn. It also helps challenge your thinking and make you question what you’re doing. If the best are doing it and so are you it may also give some comfort. I also know that going on to fantasy premier league sites if you get a bad tip then you can kind of ditch the site. So if you can see that other tried and tested fantasy premier league managers also believe in that player then it can provide some justification for the sites pick
The reason I haven’t just picked the current top 10 leaders is that these top 10 leaders will change over the season so the top 10 now will be totally different at the end of the year. In my mind it means nothing. Its more important to pick people in my mind who’ve consistently finished high in the overall league over the last 3 years.
Here’s some stats on the 10. First remember that there 10 fantasy premier league managers and I’ve looked at the last 3 years overall finish rank. Meaning there are 30 times they have played in the last 3 years. Sorry if you found that insulting, just for clarity.
1. The average overall position improved after a very good round for the 10 currently and the average at the moment is 6.200 up from 7,000 last week. 6.200 is top 0.2% of 3,200,000 fantasy premier league managers. No one is currently lower than 21,000
2. The average position over the last 3 years is around 3,500 (this is the top 0.1 % of fantasy premier league teams)
3. 10/10 have finished in the top 1000 in the last 3 years
4 6/10 have finished in the top 100 in the last 3 years
The above is pretty impressive consistency in fantasy premier league. What these teams look like is certainly something to take note of. My average over the last 3 years is 7,900 by the way.
There are 2 issues with doing this though. Firstly just because a player is owned by a fantasy premier league manager doesn’t mean he wants to own him. He could be wanting to transfer him out but can’t due to other priorities, injuries etc. That’s probably more for cheapies though as expensive players are probably ditched earlier. Secondly it obviously s a look back and not forward to the next gameweek
Ok so here’s the break down of their teams (obviously I don’t mention every player just the ones that appear frequently).
What was the average round score?
The average GW38 score of the 10 fantasy premier league managers was 75 points compared to the average of 62 points. 13 points and 21% above the average
What is the average team value?
The average value of the 10 fantasy premier league managers was steady at £112.3m up from £112.1M.
GK/DEFs by player
Mannone is owned by 8 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Chester is owned by 6 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Evra and Ward are owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Zabaleta, Coleman and Azpilicueta are owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Adrian and Marshall are owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
GKs/DEFs by team
Sunderland GKs/DEFs appear 11 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Crystal Palace GKs/DEFs appear 10 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Man Utd GKs/DEFs appear 8 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Man City GKs/DEFS appear 7 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Hull GKs/DEFs appear 6 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Everton GKs/DEFs appear 5 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Southampton GKs/DEFs appear 4 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Midfielders
Mata is owned by 9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
YYT is owned by 8 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Ramsey and Eriksen are owned by 7 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Forwards
Suarez is owned by 9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Aguero is owned by 9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Rooney is owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
GW38 Transfers
The most transferred in players were in fantasy premier league DGW37:
YYT x 7
Evra x3
Mata, Jones, RVP and Borini x 2
No one else was transferred in more than once.
The most transferred out were:
Baines x 5
Rooney x 4
Lalllana, Coleman x 3
No one else was transferred out more than once
The most popular transfers were:
Rooney-Borini x
Lallana – Mata x2
Gerrard – YYT x 2
The average day of transfers was Wednesday 30 April
GW38 Captain Choices
Aguero was captained 8 times
Mata was captained 1 time
YYT was captained 1 time
How many took hits?
10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers took point hits.
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 10 times
How many have used their Wildcard?
10 out of 10 have now used their regular season wildcard.
The concentration is on teams inside the top 4 challenging teams. A Johnson (2) and Borini (2) are the only players over £6m outside the top 4 challenging teams owned by the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 fantasy premier league managers. Value was around £114m slightly above the average. Below the picture I’ll tell you how it would have scored
Here’s how it would have scored
Mannone – 13 points
Chester– 0 points
Zabaleta – 12 points
Evra – 2 points
Ward – 2 points
Eriksen – 2 points
Mata – 2 points
Puncheon – 2 points
YYT – 17 points
Aguero – 10 points (captain)
Suarez – 5 points
total 67 points
Reserves: Adrian Ramsey Rooney Azpilicueta
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