fantasy premier league GW38 hints – analysing 10 top FPL managers – updated

Fantasy Premier League, top 10 FPL managers

Here’s our fantasy premier league GW38 hints top 10 FPL managers article updated as the games for DGW37 are now over.  See how the top 10 FPL managers score compared to yours in this mammoth DGW.

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 GW38 HINTS – ANALYSING 10 TOP FPL MANAGERS – UPDATED

To make it easier to read I’ve added in the new narrative in Italics to save you reading the whole thing if you don’t want to.

The changes are mainly in the gameweek review section but I’ve also updated the highest and lowest scorers plus the celebrity manager section

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 DGW37 was 167 compared to the average of 81. Thats 86 points and 106% above the average score. The high score of the 10 was 194. The low score was 136. A big spread of 58 for a very high scoring gameweek.

The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers improved by 23k to 51k compared to the last gameweek of 74k. The best rank is now, incredibly, in the top 10 and the lowest 258k. If you calculated the median rank then that improved to 17k compared to 27k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 10k. At the moment 8 have overall ranks inside 100k. 4 are inside the top 10k. 

The manager in the top 10 is 50 points behind the leader so can’t realistically win it btw

The average value sees an improvement to £105.9m up from £105.7m in the last gameweek.

If you’re interested my score was an good one at 178. I had a higher score than 7 of the managers. My overall rank is now 22k compared to 48k last gameweek. An improvement of rank of 26k. I’m ahead of 4 of the top 10 managers. My team value is low in comparison at £103.1m. An improvement from the last gameweek at £102.9m. My total points are 2,181.

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 is in 7/10 FPL managers teams

Holgate is in 6/10 FPL managers teams

Monreal is in 4/10 FPL managers teams

Cech and Vertonghen 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 GK/Defs are represented 11 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

Man City GK/Defs are represented 9 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

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

Everton GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams

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

Midfielders

Sanchez is in 9/10 FPL managers teams

Hazard and Alli are 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 5/10 FPL managers teams

Eriksen and Pedro are 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 7/10 FPL managers teams

Jesus was the captain in 2/10 FPL managers teams

Hazard was the captain in 1/10 FPL managers teams

The top 10 overall rank according to FPL discovery captained Sanchez 53% of the time, Jesus 19%, De Bruyne 7% and Costa 7%

Formation

Everyone’s using bench boost so this isn’t relevant

Wildcards, Transfers and Hits

10/10 have now played their 2nd wildcards.

All 10 played their bench boost played their bench boost this gameweek

10/10 have played their triple captain chip.

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

7 of the 10 managers made a transfer. Some obviously saving them for GW38 uncertainty

Transfers in

Gibbs was transferred in 2 times

No one else was transferred in more than once

Transfers out

Gabriel was transferred out 3 times.

Hazard was transferred out 2 times

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.

 fantasy premier league GW38 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

 fantasy premier league GW38 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

The average points scored of the top 10k was 146 compared to the top FPL managers of 167

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

The top 10k don’t favour any player more significantly than the top 10 managers I follow.

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

Only GKs and Defenders: Pickford, Caballer, Yoshida, Stephens, Holgate and Vertonghen

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.  It was a disappointing result of 136 and resulted in him being the only red arrow and the lowest scorer of the 10 managers.  His rank dropped to 16k and it now seems difficult to get into the top 10k.   No Kane is the obvious omission

 fantasy premier league GW38 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.

Highest gameweek scorer

194  points with bench boost used. Overall rank in the top 500




 fantasy premier league GW38 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

Lowest gameweek scorer

137 points with bench boost used.  Overall rank is 258k. He’s the lowest apart from the celebrity manager who has 136

 fantasy premier league GW38 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

When I compare teams scores the reasons for a difference are normally

  1.  Defence
  2. Captain pick
  3. 1 or 2 players.

Defence and captain weren’t a factor in comparing the highest scorer and the lowest scorer of the celebrity manager.

Firstly there’s a big team value difference of £6m.  Kane over Costa was 29 points difference.  Half the difference in 1 player.  Hazard over KDB 10 points and Ozil over Alli 8 points.  3 attacking players made 47 of the 58 points. 2 attacking players 39 of the 58 points.

Top 10 FPL managers combined team

Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. The value is around £107.0m

 fantasy premier league GW38 hints - analysing 10 top FPL managers - updated

Interestingly only 2 changes from my team

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, Hazard, and Alonso become essential

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