Here’s our fantasy premier league GW31 tips article 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. Another good week with 7 green arrows and a new record of 7 different captains
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE GW31 TIPS – ANALYSING 10 TOP FPL MANAGERS
THE 10 MANAGERS FPL STATS
The stats of the top 10 managers are incredible again this season.
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. 7 of the 10 had green arrows.
The average score of the managers in GW30 was 50 compared to the average of 40. Thats 10 points and 25% above the average score. The high score of the 10 was 62. The low score was 34. A big spread of 28 for a low scoring gameweek.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers saw an improvement of rank to 102k compared to the last gameweek of 121k. An average rank improvement of rank of 19k. The best rank is less than 50 and the lowest 410k. A couple of scores are distorting the average. If you calculated the median rank then that improved significantly to 42k compared to 62k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 20k. At the moment 6 have overall ranks inside 100k. 2 are inside the top 10k.
The average value sees a good worsening to £105.6 from £105.9m in the last gameweek
If you’re interested my score was good at 56. Only 3 of the managers had a gameweek higher score. My overall rank is now 72k compared to 94k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 22k. I’m ahead of 4 of the top 10 managers. My team value is low in comparison at £102.4m. A worsening compared to the last gameweek at £102.7m. My total score is 1635 points.
GK/DEFS BY PLAYER
Alonso and Valencia are in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Brunta and Pickford are in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Jakupovic Foster and Heaton are in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Bertrand is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
GK/DEFS BY TEAM
WBA GK/Defs are represented 11 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Man Utd GK/Defs are represented 9 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Chelsea GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Hull GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Sunderland and Everton GK/Defs are represented 5 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Swansea and Burnley GK Defs are represented 4 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
MIDFIELDERS
Mane is in 8/10 FPL managers teams
Sigurdsson is in 7/10 FPL managers teams
Alli is in 6/10 FPL managers teams
King and Sanchez are in 4/10 FPL managers
Eriksen is in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Carroll, Fletcher and Pedro are in 2/10 FPL managers teams
FORWARDS
Lukaku is in 9/10 FPL managers teams
Costa is in 5/10 FPL managers teams
Carroll is in 4/10 FPL managers teams
Aguero and Llorente are in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Barnes and Vardy are in 2/10 FPL managers teams
GW30 CAPTAIN CHOICE
Costa was the captain in 3/10 FPL managers teams
Aguero was the captain in 2/10 FPL managers teams
Hazard, Sanchez, Vardy, Mane and Alonso was the captain in 1/10 FPL managers teams
FORMATIONS
9/10 played 3-4-3
1/10 played 3-5-2
TRANSFERS
Wildcards, Transfers and Hits
1/10 have now played their 2nd wildcards. This was played this week. Here’s the team
0/10 have played their bench boost
9/10 have played their triple captain chip
In this round 2 managers took a 4 point hit.
10 of the 10 managers made a transfer
Transfers in
This ignores the above WC
Valencia was transferred in 5 times
Bertrand was transferred in twice
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Coleman was transferred out 7 times
Antonio was transferred out twice
No one else was transferred out more than once
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.
The top 10k average score was 46 compared to the Top FPL managers of 50.
They have some big differences (30% difference is the benchmark) with the top 10k rank.
The top 10k favour the following significantly more than the managers I follow:
McAuley
The 10 Managers I follow favour the following more significantly than the top 10k
Foster, Pickford, Alonso, Brunt, Valencia Robertson,
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.
A poor week. Although he’s playing pretty defensively not to lose rank at present so he still has a 10k overall rank. A worsening of rank of 1k from the last gameweek of 9k. His total points are 1, 707 after a poor score of 41 this gameweek. Just to give you a bit of context his last 3 years overall rankings have been 1,450, 277 and 90.
THE HIGHEST SCORING AND LOWEST SCORING MANAGERS IN GW30
Highest scorer
The highest scorer was 62. He’s now ranked around 42k
Lowest scorer
A low score of 34 sees this manager, who has recently been on fire, fall to around 1k with a score of 34
Defence wasn’t the difference this time with only 7 points between them. Coutinho with 13 points and Aguero captain with 12 made a big chunk of the difference 28.
TOP 10 MANAGERS COMBINED TEAM
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. It fits within my team value at £102.4m
The core players who are in more than 50% of the managers teams are Lukaku, Sigurdsson, Alli, Mane, Valencia and Alonso.
If you cross reference this with the top 10k managers with players over 50% then by that Siggy, Lukaku and Mane are essential.
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