Fantasy Premier League analysis – a deep dive into the FFGeek Contributor’s seasons

Fantasy Premier League

Here’s our fantasy premier league analysis article where we take a deep dive into the Contributors seasons using an analysis tool.  From that we can see what we can learn in determining critical things to focus on for next season

Fantasy Premier League analysis – a deep dive into the FFGeek Contributor’s seasons

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Methodology

So what I’ve done is put each of the FFGeek contributors plus myself through a team analysis tool called  https://www.anewpla.net/fpl/report/

I’ve taken various things from that to see if we can assess what is critical to you rank.

I’ve divided the Contributors into 2 groups although the average is for all of them

The players are the top Fantasy Premier League PPMs

It won’t be that easy to read on a phone but here’s a link to the spreadsheet.  It’s not the most elegant of spreadsheets unfortunately but it should do the job.

The Spreadsheets




Fantasy Premier League analysis

Fantasy Premier League analysis

Those items that appeared to correlate with overall rank

Captain Points

Unlike last season your captain points total did seem to be important to your overall rank although there were exceptions obviously. A significant amount of people in the 2nd group were under the Captain average points.  I personally have a neutral view of the captain and ended up bang average.  Having said that the top Captain picks came from Prakhar who had 557.

Immediate points from transfers 

Although Yaniv seemed to have a nightmare with his immediate transfers again your return from immediate transfers seemed to be correlated with your overall rank.  Probably stronger than the captain points.  This entry point  for a transfer is important to me so I was pleased to be 18 points above the average with only 4 people Contributors getting more.  Again the top Immediate transfer points came from an unexpected source in Rob Cosgrove.  Although to be fair only 2 contributors took more hits then Rob to get himself in that position.




Attacking players

You have to be careful about this because it depends on how funds were allocated but defensive points per match from Contributors wasn’t that consistent with overall rank but how you did with your midfielders and forwards seemed to be.  Given their points potential this is a statement of the obvious.  Costas had the highest midfield points per match and the forwards points per match although he did take the most hits to get himself in that position.  I concentrate on the defence alot so I was pleased to see only 3 Contributors got a better PPM than me.  However my forward picks were either a disaster or I didn’t invest enough in them as only 1 manager had a lower PPM than me

Best performing players

Most Contributors best players in terms of Point per Match subject to a minimum 10 games starts were Salah and De Bruyne and if they weren’t they were invariably 3rd or at worst 4th.  Martial, Sterling and Doherty, surprisingly, popped up twice.  Mine interestingly were Salah and Martial with De Bruyne 3rd.

Worst performing players

Again to qualify you had to start 10 matches for your FPL team.  Ideally you’d want this person to be a £4.5m defender or midfielder or someone at at PPM of 4.0 or more which would be pretty acceptable.

Mount appeared the most at PPMs that weren’t great for the price.  Then it was Soyuncu who was one of mine.  He was at least a £4.5m defender.  However his appearance in the 2 was disappointing as I did believe in the Leicester defence so a PPM of 3.3 was not what I would have been looking for.  A few managers got the wrong end of Pope as well although 1 was 3.9PPM

Players

It was no surprise that the Contributors best PPMs were from Fernandes, Salah and De Bruyne.  Rashford and Son had the lowest PPMs and also the lowest useage.  Salah was easily the most popular captain pick with Sterling and Vardy picked about half the time of Salah.

Salah was also the most frequently used player tied with Alexander Arnold with De Bruyne close behind

A number of managers tied for the best PPM for Fernandes

Rob Cosgrove got the best use of De Bruyne

Yaniv had the best PPM for Salah

Mane had significantly lower returns than Salah.

Mikael had the best PPM for Sterling at 6.7

Joe had the best PPM for Martial at an incredible 7.9 for 7 matches

There were quite a lot of low PPMs for Vardy with Costas having the best 7.4 over 13 matches.

Aubameyang was a fairly divisive figure with alot of variance over returns and times played as was Rashford and Son.

Alexander Arnold was a staple in most times appearance wise and with fairly consistent returns around 5.5.  Costas, Stephen and Alex were the only Managers who got less than 5 PPM as a return

More to come

On the Patreon site I’m going to see if I can get some more tips from those who did best in the captain, immediate points and attacking player picks plus other articles to see if we ca pick up more ideas for strategy next season

Other posts

The FFGeek season review

Andrew Whitfield season review

Costas Chari end of season review

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