I’ve had a bit of a scour around the social media world to find out how fantasy premier league teams evolving from managers with a good FPL history. I thought it would be interesting for people to see what some good managers are doing with their teams at the moment. The versions I’ve used to construct a template are no more than a few days old.
fantasy premier league teams – the social media FPL team template
So I’ve used a sample of 10 managers teams with recent posts. Here are the results by position (excluding players only in 1 team)
Goalkeepers
Foster was in 7/10 managers teams
Elliot was in 7/10 managers teams
Defenders by player
Trippier was in 7/10 managers teams
Cedric was in 6/10 managers teams
K Long and Alonso were in 4/10 managers teams
Blind and Suttner were in 3/10 managers teams
Mee, Bertrand, Kolasinac, Yoshida and Rangel were in 2/10 managers teams
Defenders incl GKs by team
Southampton had representation in all 10 managers teams
Spurs, Newcastle and WBA were represented in 9/10 managers teams
Burnley was represented in 8/10 managers teams
Chelsea was represented in 5/10 managers teams
Man Utd and Brighton were represented in 4/10 managers teams
Arsenal, Swansea and C Palace were represented in 2/10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
De Bruyne was in 8/10 teams
Tom Carroll was in 7/10 teams
Willian was in 5/10 teams
Tadic and Loftus-Cheek were in 4 teams
Salah and Zaha were in 3 teams
Alli, Pogba and Ramsey were in 2 teams
Forwards
Lukaku is in all 10 teams
Kane is in 9/10 teams
Rodriguez is in 5/10 teams
Austin is in 3/10 teams
Gayle is in 2/10 teams
A combined team within the £100m budget
Some observations
So to me this is a good squad.
Structure
Structurally it looks like a 3-4-3 would be the best use of this team. However the 3 premium defenders plus 2 £4.5m defenders gives the potential to go 4 at the back if anyone is rotated or if Zaha, Rodriguez or Tadic have an undesirable fixture. The premium striker front 3 or the premium 4 man defence didn’t really exist.
Surprises not in the team
By the wat, I’m not saying I think they should have been there just generally surprised.
I’m surprised the Man Utd defence only had 4 representations . Alli and Eriksen were quite low picks as well. Sane and Coutinho as low picks were also surprising. A lack of a Man City defence and no Jesus and only 1 Aguero pick were surprises. No Arsenal players at all.
Surprises about the team
Again this is observation not disagreement.
I’m surprised that Kane was so comprehensively picked. I’m not surprised about Lukaku. Rodriguez surprises me although he has shown good pre-season form. I probably wouldn’t have thought that Elliot would have been so comprehensively picked
Some players to monitor in the team
It wouldn’t surprise me if Newcastle bought a GK which would make Elliot’s place a monitor.
Cedric hasn’t played in pre-season and has only just returned to training after the Confederation cup so he’s a monitor. Yoshida is a change at the same price
There has been talk about LB Sandro joining Chelsea which would make Alonso a gametime risk.
Rodriguez isn’t going to lead the line as a CF it seems. It seems he will either be in the front 3 wide of Rondon or behind Rondon in the 3 of 4-2-3-1.
Hope you found that interesting
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