fantasy premier league DGW37 hints – analysing 10 top FPL managers – updated

Fantasy Premier League, top 10 FPL managers

Here’s our fantasy premier league DGW37 hints updated analysing 10 top FPL managers article as all games have now finished and the scores finalised. In this article you can see the managers updated scores, teams  and overall ranks

If you haven’t seen the article before this is where we analyse the teams of 10 top FPL managers where in the last 3 seasons none have finished outside the top 10k. The top 10 Managers have played 30 times in the last 3 years and none have finished outside the top 10k in that time. Considering how variable the last 3 years have been this is remarkable consistency and shows an ability to adapt strategy in different seasons. It also gives you a view other than my own on strategy and player selection.

fantasy premier league DGW37 hints – analysing 10 top FPL managers – updated 

Additional words are in italics to save you reading it again. It’s mainly in the gameweek review but there are other sections too.

The top 10 FPL managers stats

The stats of the top 10 managers are incredible again.

1. The overall average finishing position of the top 10 managers is 2,943

2. The top 10 FPL managers have not been out of the top 10k in the last 3 years (ie 30 times playing)

3. 9 of the 10 have finished in the top 1,000

Gameweek review




A good week for the top 10 FPL managers. 9 of the 10 had green arrows.

The average score of the managers in DGW36 was 82 compared to the average of 46. Thats 36 points and 78% above the average score. The high score of the 10 was 100. The low score was 54. A big spread of 46 for a high scoring gameweek.

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers improved by 17k to 74 compared to the last gameweek of 91k. The best rank is now, incredibly, in the top 20 and the lowest 350k. If you calculated the median rank then that improved to 27k compared to 43k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 16k. At the moment 8 have overall ranks inside 100k. 2 are inside the top 10k.  I expect another 3 to make it in by the end of the season.

The average value sees an improvement to £105.7m up from £105.2m in the last gameweek. 

If you’re interested my score was an good one at 84. I had a higher score than 6 of the managers. My overall rank is now 48k compared to 79k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 31k. I’m ahead of 4 of the top 10 managers. My team value is low in comparison at £102.9m. An improvement from the last gameweek at £102.3m. My total points are 2003.

Gk/Defs by player

Caballero and Stephens are in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Alonso and Yoshida are in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Pickford and Holgate are in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Cech, Vertonghen, Monreal and Gabriel are in 3/10 FPL managers teams

Gk/Defs by team

Southampton GK/Defs are represented 18 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Arsenal and Man City GK/Defs are represented 10 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Sunderland and Chelsea GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Everton GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Spurs GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Man Utd GK Defs are represented 3 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Midfielders

Hazard is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Sanchez is in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Alli is in 8/10 FPL managers teams

King is in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Sane is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Capoue is in 3/10 FPL managers teams

Forwards

Jesus is in 10/10 FPL managers teams

Kane is in 8/10 FPL managers teams

Gabbiadini is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Costa is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Anichebe is in 2/10 FPL managers teams

DGW37 captain choice

Sanchez was the captain in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Hazard was the captain in 1/10 FPL managers teams

The top 10 overall rank according to FPL discovery captained Sanchez 55% of the time, Hazard 10%, Costa 8% and Kane 7%

Formation

6 managers used 3-4-3

4 managers used 3-5-2

Transfers

Wildcards, Transfers and Hits

10/10 have now played their 2nd wildcards.

0/10 have played their bench boost

10/10 have played their triple captain chip.

In this round 1 manager took a 4 point hit. 1 took an 8 point hit

9 of the 10 managers made a transfer or used their wildcard

Transfers in and out

Due to the amount of wildcard’s I wont do this in this gameweek. It’s better just to focus on the players in each managers team

Comparison with the top 10k

Here’s a comparison with the how the top 10k overall rank average team looks like. The information is provided by the excellent site FPL discovery.

fantasy premier league DGW37 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

 fantasy premier league DGW37 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

The average score of the top 10k was 65 compared to the 10 top managers of 82.

 They have some big differences (30% difference is the benchmark) with the top 10k rank.

The top 10k only favour Lukaku more significantly than the top 10 managers I follow.

The 10 Managers I follow favour the following more significantly than the top 10k

Pickford, Caballero, Alonso, Yoshida, Stephens, Holgate, Vertonghen, Gabriel Hazard and Jesus more than the top 10k

Focus on 1 managers team

Again we focus on the managers team who last season finished the highest of my then top 10 FPL managers ending up in 1,400th position. This manager is the closest thing to a fantasy football celebrity there is due to his consistent results so we’ll keep an eye on him.

Here’s his team.  He scored 83 points and is currently ranked 13k




fantasy premier league DGW37 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

Just to give you a bit of context his last 3 years overall rankings have been 1,450, 277 and 90.

The highest and lowest scoring managers

Highest scorer

The highest scorer scored 100.  He had already used his wildcard and this week was using his triple captain on Sanchez.  He’s our leading manager and incredibly now in the top 20 overall.  He’s around 70 points from top place.

fantasy premier league DGW37 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

Lowest scorer

54 points by our lowest ranking manager at 350k.  He didn’t have a wildcard to use.  This shows you how anyone can have a bad season and if you get a bad run of 50/50’s wrong it can really hurt you.  His last 3 seasons scores have been 2,801, 623 and 987.  

fantasy premier league DGW37 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

10 Top FPL managers combined team

Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. The value is around £105.5m

fantasy premier league DGW37 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

Interestingly only 1 change from my team which I probably would have done if I had the cash.

There is a real similarity to all the 10 managers teams at the moment. Here are the core players who are in more than 50% of the 10 managers teams are Caballero, Pickford, Stephens, Alonso, Yoshida, Holgate, Hazard, Alli, Sanchez, King, Jesus, Gabbiadini and Kane. Incredibly 13 players.

If you cross reference this with the top 10k managers with players over 50% then by that definition King, Alli, Sanchez and Kane become essential

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