Here’s the 3rd article as it continues to prove very popular. 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 makes interesting reading.
fantasy premier league – analysing 10 top fantasy premier league managers teams – GW18
Background
Just to put a bit of context around this if you haven’t seen it 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 one around as I couldn’t track someone down from last week. That’s why some of the historic stats and team make ups are slightly different
1. The average position of the 10 at the moment took a slight upturn this week and is now 27,000 in fantasy premier league. That was before the gameweek points were added No one is lower than 75,000 ie around the top 2% (3m fantasy premier league managers)
2. The average position over the last 3 years is around 6,000 (this is the top 0.2 % of fantasy premier league teams)
3. 10/10 have finished in the top 1000 in the last 3 years
4 7/10 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)
GK/DEFs by player
Coleman is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Terry is owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Mertesacker Shaw Marshall Mignolet Gabbidon Chester Ward and Dawson are owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
GKs/DEFs by team
Everton GKs/DEFs appear 12 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Southampton GKs/DEFs appear 7 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Palace and Cardiff GKs/DEFs apdiff appear 6 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams
Hull and Chelsea GKs/DEFs appear 5 times in the 10 teams
Arsenal and Liverpool GKs/DEFs appear 5 times in the 10 teams
Midfielders
Hazard is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Ramsey is owned by 9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Ozil is owned by 5 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
YYT, Shelvy, Cabaye and R Morrison are owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Forwards
Suarez is owned by 10 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Lukaku and Rooney are owned by 7 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Rooney is owned by 8 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
Negredo is owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers
GW18 Transfers
The most transferred out players were in fantasy premier league GW18:
Zabaleta x 2
No one else was transferred out more than once.
Interestingly Ozil was transferred out by 1 player for Walcott. The start of many maybe?
The most transferred in were:
Cabaye x 3
Silva and Walcott were only transferred in once each.
The most popular transfers were:
No transfer was done more than once
GW18 Captain Choices
Suarez was the captain 6 times. Rooney twice, Lukaku and YYT once.
How many took hits?
2 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers took 4 point hits
What was the most popular formation
9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers played 3-4-3
How many have used their Wildcard?
7 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers have used their season wildcard
So what does this mean?
Here’s a few things which jump out:
- For the gameweek
The season average of 26,000 compared to their last 3 year average of 6,000 shows what a hard year its been for even the best fantasy premier league managers.
It was a gameweek for little movement in average position from 29,000 to 26,000.
If you had Suarez as captain then you weren’t alone in your misery
- For the season
Only 1 fantasy premier league manager has Silva and only 1 has Walcott despite me thinking that they are top picks
Fantasy premier league managers are sceptical on YYT with only 3 owning him.
Coleman is an essential defensive pick and Everton followed by Saints are the most popular defence
Ramsey still has the faith of these fantasy premier league managers (or at least the need to cover him). His injury could see a mass sale.
The first sign of dropping off of faith in Ozil is shown with the first sale.
There is great faith in Hazard despite the inconsistency
Rooneys and Lukaku are split choices
Suarez is a must have
3-4-3 is still the most popular formation.
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 yourself for doing it.
Here’s a team from those combined managers which is more or less within an affordable price range. I’ve ignored injuries for the moment.
Follow us on twitter @fantasyfoot20 or facebook at www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk
fantasy premier league league code: 149188-42149
Fox Sports EPL fantasy: League name: fantasyfootballgeek League access code: (10513-1773)
