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

Here’s a new article in which I’ve sought out the teams of 10 top fantasy premier league managers and analysed who they 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

Just to put a bit of context around this.  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.   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 position of the 10 at the moment is 10,500 in fantasy premier league.  No one is lower than 30,000 ie the top 1% (3m fantasy premier league managers)

2.  The average position over the last 3 years is 7,500 (this is the top 0.3 % of fantasy premier league teams)

3.  9/10 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.

If the post is popular I’ll continue following them through the season to see which transfers are made etc.

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 9 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

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

Mertesacker, Boruc and Dawson are owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Marshall, Shaw, Gabbidon and Zabaleta 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 8 times as a GK/DEF in the 10 teams

Hull, Liverpool, Chelsea and Palace  GKs/DEFs appear 5 times in the 10 teams

Man City, Spurs and Arsenal GKs/DEFs appear 4 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

Ravel Morrison is owned by 4 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Barkley and Shelvy are owned by 3 of the 10 fantasy premier league managers

Forwards

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

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

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

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

GW16 Transfers

The most transferred out players were in fantasy premier league GW16:

Giroud x 2

Gerrard x 2

Cabaye x 2

The most transferred in were:

Hazard x 3

Jagielka x 2

Lukaku x 2

The most popular transfers were:

Giroud to Lukaku x 2

Gerrard to Hazard x 2

GW16 Captain Choices

Lukaku was given the captain’s armband 4 times

Rooney was given the captains armband 3 times

Hazard was given the captains armband twice

Aguero was given the captains armband once

So what does this mean?

Here’s a few things which jump out:

Coleman is a far more popular pick than Jagielka, as I found to my cost yesterday

There is faith in Chelsea defence as long as its Terry who can score and get bonus points

Ramsey  still has the faith of these fantasy premier league managers (or at least the need to cover him)

There is big faith in Ozil

Only 2 of the 10 managers had YYT interestingly

If we didn’t know already Aguero and Suarez seem to be must haves

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.

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