Here’s our fantasy premier league transfer tips GW5 article where we analyse the teams of 10 top FPL managers. These 10 managers have not finished outside the overall rank of the top 10k in the last 3 seasons. 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 transfer tips GW5 – analysing the teams of 10 top FPL managers
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Introduction
If the article is too long there’s a combined FPL managers team for the top 10 FPL managers analysed towards the end of the article.
Firstly, there are 9 new managers in the 10 this season. The only repeat manager I’ve found again finished in the top 100 last season
The criteria I’ve always been looking for is managers who’ve finished in the top 10k for the last 3 years when FPL has become considerably harder due to the amount of people playing and the information available.
It took me a long time to track down 10 managers who’ve been so consistent and I imagine it will get harder and harder
The 10 managers stats
These managers are incredible and every bit as impressive as last season.
1. The overall average finishing overall rank of the top 10 managers in the last 3 seasons is 3,800
2. The top 10 FPL managers have not been out of the top 10k in the last 3 seasons (ie 30 times playing)
3. 3 of the 10 have finished in the top 1,000 in the last 3 seasons
4. 2 of the 10 have finished in the top 100 in the last 3 seasons
Gameweek 4 review
A bad gameweek for the 10 managers with 8 getting a red arrow.
The average score of the managers in GW4 was 52 after taking points deductions for extra transfers into account. That’s 5 points and 9% lower than the game average of 57. High score of the 10 was 66. The low score was 38.
The average overall rank of the top 10 FPL managers is 544k. That’s worsened by 217k from last week. The best overall rank is 93k and the lowest 1,599k.
The average total points are 244
The average team value is £100.7m.
You can see my score and rank in the early FFGeek team article.
The combined total of individual players
I’ve generally only included where there is a minimum of a player in 3 out of the 10 FPL managers teams
Goalkeeper/Defence by player
Digne is in 7 of the FPL managers teams
Alexander Arnold, Van Dijk and Robertson are in 6 of the FPL managers teams
Zinchenko and Lundstram are in 5 of the 10 managers teams
Ryan and Button are in 4 of the 10 managers teams
Pope and Rico are in 3 of the 10 FPL managers teams
Goalkeeper/Defence by team
Liverpool GK/Defs are represented 18 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Brighton GK/Defs are represented 9 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Everton GK/Defs are represented 8 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Man City GK/Defs are represented 7 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Sheff Utd GK/Defs are represented 6 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Bournemouth and Burnley GK/Defs are represented 3 times in the 10 FPL managers teams
Midfielders
Sterling is in 10 of the FPL managers teams
Salah, and Dendoncker are in 9 of the 10 FPL managers teams
De Bruyne is in 6 of the FPL managers teams
Martial is in 4 of the FPL managers teams
Perez and Mount are in 3 of the FPL managers teams
Forwards
Pukki is in 9 of the 10 FPL managers teams
Greenwood is in 6 of the 10 FPL managers teams
Wickham is in 4 of the 10 FPL managers teams
King and Haller are in 3 of the 10 FPL managers teams.
Jota and Wilson are in 2 of the 10 FPL managers teams
Gameweek 4 captain choice
10 of the 10 FPL managers went with Sterling
The FFGeek poll was 68% Sterling, 10% Aguero and 10% Salah
Formations
Not done this week sorry.
Wildcards, chips, transfers and hits
Chips
No managers at this stage have used their wildcard or chips
Transfers
8 of the 10 managers made at least 1 transfer
Transfers in
Mount was transferred in 3 times
De Bruyne was transferred in 2 times
No one else was transferred in more than once
Transfers out
Martial was transferred out 4 times
Robertson was transferred out 2 times
No one else was transferred out more than once
The top 10k overall rank vs the 10 FPL managers
I won’t be doing this until around gameweek 5 or 6 when the overall rank table settles down a bit as overall rank will be very volatile to start with
The template
I use the 10 managers as a proxy for serious managers teams and have a basic rule of thumb that if 7 of the 10 managers have a player or a defence in their team then I will seriously consider getting that player in.
Here’s the template on that basis. I’ve included De Bruyne even though he’s only owned by 6 as I suspect he will qualify next week through his score and with Norwich being the next fixture. The difficulty with tracking the template is that you’re 1 game behind it as you obviously can’t see what their transfers are leading up to the gameweek.
The template therefore is
2 Liverpool defenders
Digne
Man City defender
Salah
Sterling
De Bruyne
Pukki
I haven’t counted Dendoncker as he’s primarily a bench player or the Brighton defence as it’s made up significantly by a non playing £4.0m GK.
That leaves 3 players as difference makers if you cover the template.
One managers team
Here’s the leading manager at the moment with a 93k OR. He transferred in Digne for Robertson this week. His last 3 seasons are 1k, 6k and 3k
He has 7 of the 8 template players I mention above with just 1 Liverpool defender instead of 2 the difference.
The combined 10 top FPL managers teams
Here’s a team which tries to make a combination from the most represented players. Please note that it is meant to be a menu of players to help you choose your transfer rather than a realistic team and it’s value is not necessarily achievable.
Thats it. Hope you found it useful
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