Fantasy Football Trends From The Top – GW12 Analysis
Welcome to Fantasy Football Trends From The Top – GW12 Analysis. Hopefully, you saw last week’s bonus edition but just in case you missed it… Trends From the Top takes a detailed look at what the league leaders are doing every week in attempt for us, fantasy football fanatics, to capitalise on our observations and analysis of their selections and choices. I hope you enjoy this article as it helps prep you for this upcoming Gameweek!
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 12?
Based on GW 12 fixtures, it is of little surprise that 90% of our top 10 leaders selected Salah as their captain pick thus yielding them 16 points. Interestingly enough, our top league leader, Toni Haapanen from Finland, was the one individual who went against the grain to select Aguero (14 points).
Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 12?
Goalkeepers: For Gameweek 12, a variance of only 5 goalies were selected with the most popular keeper being Mathew Ryan of Brighton (2 points) who yielded 30%. 20% selected Ederson (2 points), Fabianski (5 points) and Patricio (2 points) followed by Begovic at 10%. It is clear that folks selected keepers based on fixtures as that would be the natural tendency but as we saw, the individuals selected above were not the best options. For folks who had Pickford and Alisson for example, they were all able to collect 7 points for GW12 and for those owning Joe Hart of Burnley and Hugo Lloris of Spurs, managers were able to add 10 and 9 points respectively to their GW total.
Defenders: This past Gameweek we didn’t see much variety along the backline as only 9 defenders made the cut. Robertson was the most popular pick with 100% selection (and bringing in an impressive 12 points) followed by Alonso at 90% and Mendy, who is now out with an injury, at 80%. The following defenders were also selected but only by 1 top manager: Alexander-Arnold, Trippier, Holebas, Zabaleta, David Luiz and Laporte.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 13 different picks. Salah and Hazard were the must-haves among the leaders as 90% selected both players. Richarlison was the next most popular pick coming in at 70% followed by Fraser at 40%. And, like the stats we saw with the defenders, the leaders had many players which were not ‘popular’ picks as they were only selected by 1 top 10 manager each: Martial, Milner, Lucas Moura, Mane, Gudmundsson, Paterson, Deulofeu, Sterling and Kenedy.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of only 5 picks among the top managers. 90% had Aguero and Wilson while Arnautovic had 40%, Ings 30%, and Jimenez with 20%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 12 were, Robertson (12 points), Alonso (8 points), Mendy (injured), Salah (8 points), Hazard (3 points), Richarlison (sort of injured), Aguero (7 points) and Wilson (2 points).
Other interesting facts:
- The average score for Gameweek 12 among the top 10 was 67.2 points which was only 19.2 points above average for the week.
- The average team value of our leaders was 104.2m.
8 of the top 10 have only used their 1st wildcard while one player has used 3 chips. Coincidently, it is our leader who had exhausted these chips! The remaining one player has used 0 chips. - It’s a close match up on top! Only 1 point separates those in 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th and they clearly have the opportunity to rise!
- USA! Last week, we saw representation from 10 different countries! This week, for the first time since writing this article, the USA “dominates” the leader board! Granted it’s only 2 players but leaders from the USA are in spots 4 and 10! Other countries represented are Finland, Kuwait, England, South Africa, Belgium, Serbia, France and New Zealand.
Best of luck in Gameweek 13!
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Trends From The Top – GW12 Analysis. This article was written by Bekachan17
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***NEW ARTICLE- TRENDS FROM THE TOP – GW12 ANALYSIS***
An old favourite is back, and no I’m not referring to (just) Beka. Our New York based, Sunderland supporting Professor (of something) returns with her first stand alone article for a good while to tell us all what we are doing wrong! Welcome back Beka.
Thanks!!! Great to be back. I look forward to reading folks thoughts, opinions and comments.
Thanks for this Beka. You managed to include all of my favorite numbers, which was really nice to see. I even have one or two of the players you mentioned, which I took as a bonus and a sign that I shouldn’t give up on the season just yet.
Thanks for pulling all this together.
Thanks, Chris! Don’t give up! I think when you’re at the top of the league you have to have all the top picks but when you’re trying to “catch up” you need to have most of the top players along with a few differentials.
Interesting stuff, Beka. Thanks for taking the time to research this; I can’t imagine it’d be much fun if you’ve had a bad gameweek!
Not surprising to see them all pretty much aligning in terms of whom they have, although I was surprised about where our leaders come from! Just based on the number of people ahead of me that are English in comparison to my overall rank, I would have presumed we would be better represented in the top 10!
Don’t think it is coincidental that our leader has used three chips
An empire no more!! 😉
It looks like the French guy is the one who hasn’t used any of his chips.
Allez les Bleus! 😉
Good stuff Beka thx.
Losing Mendy to Laporte this week with ft, nice easy one.
But to complicate things I’m thinking of a hit, (leading MLso don’t mind)
Reason is while I’ve got some spare Mendy cash I could lose Foster too.
His fixtures aren’t good with Pool & City in the next 3gwks.
So how’s this sound,
Mendy to Laporte will allow Foster to 4.9m gk and I’m thinking Arsenal’s Leno, but will he keep his place and will Arsenal keep a CS..?
Or could do Foster to Ederson which leaves me Mendy to 5m def…TAA maybe?
Plz help 😉
Don’t think I would Bigz. Certainly not Leno, his fixtures are almost as bad. TAA will continue to be in and out at Klopp’s whim. May as well stick and clock up the save points.
Ok cheers innit
Thx for feedback
What is it with Mendy??? My ownership of him is directly correlated with him doing nothing or getting injured. When I don’t have him he rakes the points in, when I relent and bring him in he dies immediately. I think I am being trolled….
Not sure, just tell us next time you bring him in 😆
Like never. Unless I relent again. Which could happen.
Yep, same here mate, we’ll apart from the start of the season when he got in some points for me… I just recently switched from 3-4-3 to 4-4-2 because of Mendy so I’m a bit devastated myself! Thinking of going to 3-5-2 now with a hit… Blah…
Sadly I’m 0.1m short of Mendy/Højbjerg to Digne/Martial…
I’d say that’s good news Zed not bad! I’m not a fan of Digne.
Init, what’s your issue with Digne?
His hair, for starters. Oh, and he’s shite
I’m back to square one so!
His stats say buy him, to be fair. They just don’t match what I’m seeing with my eyes but then I’m also looking at overall play I suppose. One gets you points (in theory), the other doesn’t.
https://www.premierleague.com/news/911776
Well, the other plan involves having a triple Wolves next week… Back to the drawing board 😆
It’s a great fixture though, Hudds at home, mind 😀
Read that stats article, it’s very convincing, you’ll both want him after that.
All I’m saying is that whenever I see him I’m always sat there wondering what he’s doing than Baines can’t do, and better. Stats say 11 successful crosses but that depends how they define ‘successful’ as his delivery always looks wayward to me.
Maybe it’s just his hair after all….
You’ve hit the nail right there, stats like these can be very misleading as it depends on how they’ve defined, Cedric has had a great successful crosses stat too but very few assists have materialized… Digne has 1 assist in 9 games, so it’s not very good is it?
Digne’s PPG is 3.3 which is the only stat I’m interested in ( 😆 ) and that’s not that good…The fixtures are not that good either, I think I’m going to switch Patricio for Ederson to keep City defensive coverage and go for Boly/Jonny instead!
Any chance of a little feedback (post 4 above)