A fairly traumatic week for the top 10 FPL managers with the 10 teams barely making the overall average. It may also make you feel better if it happened to you to know that 3/4 managers who had Kane in their team had him on the bench. Chambers being sold in numbers was another point of interest
If you have seen the articles before this is the latest in the series where we follow the teams of 10 top managers. These aren’t just managers successful now but managers who have been successful for the last 3 years. The 10 managers have never finished outside the top 10,000 in the last 3 years. These articles give you another perspective apart from mine. They should also give you confidence if they’re holding or selling a player when you are.
fantasy premier league GW 21 – analysing 10 top FPL managers
First off all I’ll remind you of the new managers stats. Then we’ll look at team structure and then the transfers made to get an insight into their thinking. There’s also a team at the end to summarise the position.
Top 10 FPL managers stats:
1. Their averaging finishing position over the last 3 years has been 2,353
2. The 10 FPL managers have never been outside the top 10,000 in the last 3 years. Thats 30 times playing
3. 5/10 have finished in the top 1,000 in the last 3 years
4. 4/10 have finished in the top 100 in the last 3 years
GW20 average score and rank
The GW20 average score was 42 the same as the average of 42 points.
Ironically the average of the top 10 FPL managers stayed at the 16,000 level the same as last week. However 6 got below the average score this week. The highest is approximately 300 and the lowest 73k. A good score from the 1 straggler helped hold up the average
However now 5/10 managers are under the magic 10k mark down from 7/10 managers last week. 1 is in the top 1,000
The average team value
The average team value has improved to £105.8 up from £105.6 last week
GK/DEFS by player
Hutton is owned by 5/10 top FPL managers
Terry, Zabaleta, Wisdom and N Taylor are owned by 4/10 of the FPL managers
Guzan, Foster, Pantilimon, Dummett Clyne and Baines are owned by 3/10 of the FPL managers
GK/DEFs by team
Villa have 8 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
WBA and Man City have 7 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea have 6 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Newcastle and Chelsea have 5 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Southampton and Sunderland have 4 players in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sanchez is in 10/10 FPL managers teams
Silva and Hazard are in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Siggy is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
Downing and YYT are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Forwards
Austin is owned by 10/10 FPL managers teams
Costa is owned by 9/10 FPL managers teams
Kane is owned by 4/10 FPL managers
Benteke is owned by 3/10 FPL managers
GW20 transfers
The most transferred in players were:
Terry x 2
The most transferred out were:
Chambers x 6
The most common transfers were:
Chambers to Terry x 2
The average transfer time was early this week on Saturday 27th December
GW20 Captain choice
Silva was captained 6 times
Hazard was captained twice
Sterling and YYT were captained once
How many took hits?
0/10 of the FPL managers took hits.
What was the most popular formation?
3-4-3 was used 7 times
3-5-2 was used 3 times
How many have used their wildcard?
7 the FPL managers used their regular season wildcard now.
No players appear to have activiated their January wildcard at this stage
Team source
Austin, Downing, Benteke, and Siggy are the only players in the 10 FPL managers teams over £6.0m that are outside my definition of the traditional top 4 challenging teams of Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Spurs and Man Utd.
High ownership players
The 5 players over 30% ownership prior to the transfer deadline were approximately:
Costa (59%) owned by 9/10 of the managers
Siggy (45%) owned by 6/10
Fabregas (43%) owned by 3/10
Sanchez (40%) owned by 10/10
Sterling (32%) owned by 1/10
Team structure
GKS
1/10 FPL manager played and elite keeper.
5/10 FPL managers played cheapies with back up from the same team
4/10 FPL managers played rotating cheapies
In defence
0/10 FPL managers had 0 defenders from the top 7 teams as I define them
3/10 FPL managers had 1 defender from the top 7 teams
4/10 FPL managers had 2 defenders from the top 7 teams
3/10 FPL managers had 3 defenders from the top 7 teams
In midfield
5 FPL managers played 5 proper midfielders
5 FPL managers played 4 proper midfielders and a cheapie reserve
The forwards
7 teams had 1 forward over £10m. 2 had 1 mid priced forward and 1 cheap priced forward. 4 had 2 cheap forwards
3 Teams had 2 forwards over £10m. All had a cheap forward along side.
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. It’s very affordable at around £103.0m
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fantasy premier league GW 21
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