If you come on to the site regularly then you’ll know that I do an article following 10 top FPL managers. Here’s an analysis of the FPL manager who finished first out of the 10 I follow and 1,450 position overall. I’ll compare him to myself and my very disappointing rank of 128,001 especially after a 2,000 finish last season. Like any walk of life you can always learn by studying the best.
fantasy premier league team review – an analysis of the top FPL manager I follow
Firstly here’s his team at the end of the season and his history:
Some more stats
Here’s some stats for him from the excellent site
http://www.anewpla.net/fpl
So lets compare him to my stats:
So lets compare the 2
What was the difference between me and him:
Overall he got 181 points more than me:
He got 49 more GK points than me
He got 48 more captain points than me
I got 25 more defender points
He got 95 more midfielder points than me
He got 11 more forward points than me
I took 28 more point hits than him
So out of the 181 points more he got 192 points in the captain, GK and midfield area. There’s no doubt one of my main failings this season was in the 50/50 captain pick when the polls were even and that really hurt me. The GK area was solely down to Butland. The midfield area in the main was down to him getting 43 points more than me from Payet at a much better PPG. Otherwise it was just little gains on each player
One of my main failures was a bad start. Given my conservative playing style it was then a slow improvement in rank without any real good captain picks when the 50/50’s came. Then my post GW33 DGW and blanks were a major disappointment and I didn’t advance in rank anywhere near the top FPL managers who were in similar positions
My analysis of the leading FPL manager I follow:
- Builds value
- Respects ownership often having 6 of the front 7 high ownership players for active managers (the FPL discovery top 10k)
- Has 1 or 2 fixture based differentials in the attacking line up (often the star or key player though in that team)
- Likes attacking defenders (weirdly though I did better with defenders)
- Follows the polls for the captain picks when there is a significant leader
- Avoids hits
- Goes all out in DGWs. Maximising DGW players
- Gets off to a good start
Getting off to a good start is crucial and the trickiest part as stats and player form is in it’s infancy. The first half of the season wildcard will be essential. If you get off to a good start then you can avoid moving back by respecting ownership and can just rely on 50/50 captain picks and the 1 or 2 differentials in the team. While he was 46k overall rank (GW1 he was 1.9m which makes this more impressive) after GW8 I was 460k. I then moved slowly forward but didn’t take advantage of the post GW33 blanks and DGWs like the other top FPL managers I follow.
What will I do different next year?
I think it’s very important to be self analytical in relation to your strategy. I don’t think that I will do things significantly different. I played exactly the same way as I did the previous season. Maybe that was the problem given the season was significantly different. I also don’t play that different than the FPL manager above. Bad 50/50 captain picks, a first wildcard which didn’t get me a good start plus an unsuccessful double gameweek were the reasons. I’m not sure there’s a magical recipe to change this.
I find building value difficult. Transferring early in the gameweek doesn’t work for me. Not from the injury risk point of view I just like the time to reflect on what to do. Plus I spend alot of time doing articles which does distract from the immediate task of my team.
That’s it I hope you found it interesting
