Here’s our fantasy premier league GW38 tips interim top 10 FPL managers article as the gameweek won’t be finished until Thursday night. This article will let you see how the top 10 managers are progressing and what changes they made.
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 tips – analysing 10 top FPL managers teams – interim article
An updated article will come on Friday morning UK time when all the games are finished and the FPL site is updated
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
I’ll do this in the updated version. The average score as of Monday morning was 75. Remember all 10 have used their bench boost so the bench is within that score
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
Transfers
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 and out
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.
I’ll compare the top 10k score with the top 10 managers in the updated article.
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 as of Monday morning. He had scored 61 at that point with bench boost used. Interestingly the lowest of the 10 managers. His overall rank is 14k. Will he make it into the top 10k?
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 at this point
Highest scorer
87 points as at Monday morning with bench boost used. Eriksen and Sane were the keys
Lowest scorer
He’s the lowest apart from the celebrity manager who has 61
66 points scored with bench boost used.
Top 10 FPL managers combined team
Here’s a team to represent the top 10 managers. The value is around £107.0m
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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