Fantasy premier league – analysing 10 top FPL managers teams – GW26

fantasy premier league – analysing 10 top fantasy premier league managers teams – GW26

Background

Just to put a bit of context around this if you haven’t seen the article  before.  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.  Again, I swapped a couple  around and I now have a set of 10 managers with an even more impressive current and historic record.  I’m fixing it now with this group though.

1. The average overall position improved after a very good round for the 10 currently and the average at the moment  is  13, 500  in fantasy premier league.    13,500 is top 0.4% of 3,175,000 fantasy premier league managers.  No one is currently lower than 57,000

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).  There’s quite a few changes due to the January Wildcards

What was the average round score?

The average GW26 scored of the 10 fantasy premier league managers was 54 points compared to the average of 39.  15 points and 38% above the average

What is the average team value?

The average value of the 10 fantasy premier league managers was £110.9m

Interestingly I noted the time when the transfers were done for this week.   The average transfer day was Monday 10 February

GK/DEFs by player

With January wildcards over things will be more stable

Coleman Ward Koxcielny and Boruc  are owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Mannone is  owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Baines  KDavis Adrian Chester and Mertesacker are   owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

GKs/DEFs by team

Southampton  GKs/DEFs  appear 11 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams

Everton  Arsenal and Palace GKs/DEFs  appear 8 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams

Cardiff and Chelsea GKs/DEFs  appear 5 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams 

West Ham and Hull  GKs/DEFs  appear 3 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams

Interestingly City only appear twice

Midfielders

Hazard is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Lallana and Mata  are owned by 7 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Silva  is owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

YYT is  owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Mutch Noone Barkley are the most owned cheapies at twice

Forwards

Suarez is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Sturridge  is  owned by 7 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Rodriguez is owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

GW26 Transfers

The most transferred in players were in fantasy premier league GW26:

Ivanovic x 2

Nolan x 2

No one else was transferred in more than once.

The most transferred out were:

Chester was transferred out 3 times

Giroud x 2

The most popular transfers were:

Chester to Ivanovic was done twice

GW26 Captain Choices

Suarez was captained 10 times

How many took hits?

1 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers took point hits.

What was the most popular formation

9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers played 3-4-3.    4-3-3 was used once

How many have used their Wildcard?

8 out of 10 have used their regular season wildcard

So what does this mean?

Here’s a few things which jump out:

• For the gameweek

The season average of 13,500 compared to their last 3 year average of 3,000 shows what a hard year its been for even the best fantasy premier league managers.  However the 10 managers are continuing to perform with an average of 54 this gameweek compared to the league average of 39

Suarez still remains the captain choice over Sturridge

Chelsea defensive purchases are finally happening

• For the season

An Arsenal Palace Southampton and Everton  look like where the defensive emphasis should be.  Hazard  and Suarez look the must haves elsewhere.

These managers take hits

Transfers appear to be done early in the week

3-4-3 is still the most popular formation.

All have created valuable teams.

Lallana and Rodriguez are the only players over £6m outside the top 4 challenging  teams owned by more than 2 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

That’s it I hope you found it interesting.  I hope it also challenged your thinking on some fantasy premier league players or provided some comfort if you’re holding on to someone and doubting

Here’s a team to represent the top 10 fantasy premier league managers.  Value was around £108m. Ive had to pick some players to represent defensive teams representation.  Below The picture I’ll tell you how it would have scored

Team score would have been:

GK – Adrian – 8 points

DEF – Koscielny – 9 points

Ivanovic – 10 points

Bruce – 2 points

MID – Hazard – 2 points

Lallana – 6 points

Mata – 3 points

Mutch – 1 point

FWD – Rodriguez – 2 points

Suarez (captain) – 4 points

Sturridge – 15 points

Reserves

Boruc, Coleman, Silva, Ward

Total points:  62 points

Thats it hope it gave you some food for thought for your own fantasy premier league team

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