A bizarre week where 2 late penalties from 36% owned Ross Barkley (who possibly only took them as Lukaku was off the field) pushed up the average and made moving forward without him difficult. That meant 9 out of 10 managers got red arrows. The 1 green arrow was for the manager who, you guessed it, owned Ross Barkley
Ok so here’s our fantasy premier league gameweek 25 tips article. If you haven’t seen this before then , this article includes the scores of the top 10 FPL managers as well as the team selection points. These are just not the current top 10 but 10 managers who’ve been successful over the last 3 years. The 10 managers have never finished outside the top 10k in the last 3 years (30 times playing FPL). The article is all about giving you another view point other than mine. Also the managers I have picked have been consistent showing they can adapt to different seasons.
fantasy premier league gameweek 25 tips – analysing 10 top FPL managers
The 10 managers FPL stats
I’ll give the FPL managers stats, their GW24 scores and then outline their teams and structure. The stats of the top 10 managers are incredible.
1. The overall average finishing position of the top 10 managers is 1,464
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
4. 5 of the 10 managers have finished in the top 100
GW24 average score and rank
The average score of the managers in GW24 was 60 compared to the average of 60. The high score of the 10 was 70. The low score was 50. A fairly average spread for such a high average. 9 had red arrows 1 had green
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers took a small leap backwards to 255k from 225k in the last gameweek. An decrease of 30k. The best rank is 17k and the lowest 612k.
If you’re interested my score was,I thought good, at 67 but a small decrease in the rank to 509k from 506k. An decrease of rank of 3k. I remain ahead of 3 of the top 10 managers. My team value is a disaster though at £102.9m
The average team value
The average team value of the FPL managers remained at £105.7m
Key trends and observations
De Bruyne sold by all his owners and replaced in the main by Payet and Firmino
Payet is owned now by all 10 managers
The first signs of Sanchez being purchased
The first signs that Aguero maybe the default captain pick. A home game to Leicester will be interesting to see if this stays.
Ighalo still not in anyones team
GK/Defs by player
Moreno and Simpson are owned by 8/10 FPL managers
McCarthy is in 7/10 of the FPL managers teams
Wollscheid Butland Bellerin and Hennessey are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Baines and Ward are in 4 of the 10 FPL managers teams
GK/Defs by team
C Palace GK/Defs are in 15 of the 10 FPL managers teams (I’ve counted both Hennessey and McCarthy)
Leicester GK/Defs are in 9 of the 10 FPL managers teams
Liverpool and Stoke GK/Defs are in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Everton defenders are in 5/10 of the FPL managers teams
WBA, Arsenal, Spurs are in 5 of the FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Mahrez and Payet are in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Ozil is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Alli is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Firmino and Westwood are in 3 of the teams
Forwards
Lukaku and Aguero are in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Kane is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
GW24 Captain Choice
Aguero was the captain in 10/10 of the managers teams
Hits
None of the managers took hits
How many have used their wildcard/chips
No one has used their 2nd wildcard as yet. 6 of the 10 has used their all out attack chip.
Transfers
Everyone made at least 1 transfer this week.
Transfers out
De Bruyne was transferred out by all 8 of his owners.
No one else was transferred out more than once
Transfers in
Payet was transferred in 4 times
Firmino was transferred in by 3 times
Sanchez was transferred in twice
No one else was transferred in more than once
The most common transfers
De Bruyne to Payet was done 4 times
De Bruyne to Firmino was done twice
De Brune to Sanchez was done twice
When were the transfers done?
There were 11 transfers in total
2 transfers were done on the Monday
1 Thursday 28th
1 Friday 29th
2 Saturday 30th
1 Sunday 31st
6 Tuesday 2nd
Formation
9 used 3-4-3
1 used 3-5-2
Team structure
Typically the GK was a cheap GK with McCarthy/Hennessey as a reserve although 4 now are using an elite GK of DeGea and LLoris
In the main 2 or 3 defenders from the group of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs were in the team. No one is using 4 like myself.
The pressure of getting Aguero in has significantly reduced the amount of proper 5th mids. 8/10 now have a 5th mid under £5.0m
The strikers are virtually all Aguero, Lukaku and Kane although 1 has Deeney. No Ighalo anywhere
More and more players over £6.0m are outside the teams of Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs.
Focus on 1 managers team
So we focus this week on the top scorer. His value is £105m and the rank 612k
He’s the lowest ranked manager in the top 10 although last 3 seasons he was ranked 164th, 1480 and 1686. That in itself shows you how hard this season has been when someone so good has struggled. Interestingly he hasn’t panicked and has very few differentials in there. Firmino being the only 1. A quite cheap defence. Interestingly he plays with 5 proper midfielders. Unfortunately he suffered the frustrating problem of this of unlucky selection. I cant really pin why he’s in the position he is though. As I’ve said and shown it doesn’t take many 50/50 decisions to get wrong to slip back.
A combined top 10 FPL managers teams.
Value is around £103m.
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