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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Bekachan17 It’s a comfort to feel that I had 8 of the must-have players recommended from GW12.
Robertson. Alonso, Mendy (>Laporte ?), Salah, Hazard, Richarlison, Aguero, Wilson.
Also, close to avg pts & TV. Helpful to feel that my thinking is main stream. Tnx for the work involved.
After beating Germany 3-0, Holland now beat France 2-0. And we’re acetually playing good football again. Glad Everton dropped Koeman, the guy is a genius. ^^
Plus we have a worldclass players upcoming in de Ligt, de Jong. Also Depay is ace since he went to Lyon. Good he left the sinking ship ManU. ^^
Ps. we completely bullied the wolrdchamps and they did absolutely nothing. How these guys are worldchamps, is beyond me.
Good to have you back Raz! Holland that is, not you :p
I think you landed on there with Koeman, seems to fit like a glove. He got shafted at Everton with a ridiculous transfer policy and a more ridiculous and interfering owner.
Lol, 12 shots on target for Holland versus 2 of France. That’s versus the worldchampions. Lloris is a crazy good goalkeeper, by the way. He prevented the a 4-0 win.
Koeman doesn’t have the charisma of a Mourinho or a Pep Guardiola or a Klopp. But I think he’s very good.
Have you seen Mourinho recently? Charisma left that bloke a good while ago.
Koeman was always quite dour in comparison to Pep and Klopp but flamboyance doesn’t necessarily always equal success. Horses for courses sometimes and if it’s a young ish squad, as I understand it to be, then perhaps that suits them better. When you’ve got a squad with established ‘superstars’ in it as the other two do then perhaps sometimes it does need that eccentric / extrovert trait to overpower them a bit more.
Mourinho was never charismatic. Since when did charismatic people have to say they are special themselves? He’s always been petty and childish little man, opposite of charismatic to me!
Koeman actually got young players playing again and player for each other. IT’s pretty amazing. It’s what I liked best about the Holland of the past. Being creative, playing forward, having young players.
Mourinho was known for his charisma. He’s pretty bad at losing and that’s all they do. 😉
As for Koeman. He might not have charisma in big public place. I think he has presence with players. Which might be more important if you want to create something.
Led. Mourinho was hated by one half, and loved by the other half. He def. had charisma. When you are liked and disliked that much people. Everybody had an opinion about him and not because he was stiff and boring or didn’t have anything to say.
Second question should be if you like what he did. I often didn’t. Didn’t like the way he made Real play or what he did with football teams. But in the past he did whatever it takes to win, and it worked. Seems he is outdated now. I think United have spent enough money to be able to craft a decent team again. He’s had his years. And they’re not getting any better. If anythng, the gap between City and United has become bigger.
Well, charismatic is not the opposite of stiff and boring, or of having nothing to say… To me charismatic means that someone has a some kind of odd quality (that no doubt has to do with biology) that makes one convincing and appealing, makes one have an extraordinary personal charm, makes people to take a note of him/her, to pay attention to him/her… Such stuff… Charisma has nothing to do with how you are as a person, or what you do, there can be very smart and complaisant people who are charismatic, and also very stupid and malevolent people who are charismatic imo… Like in a usual James Bond film 😆
https://m.sporcle.com/games/FPLStrategic/top-fpl-players-by-team-gw12-1819
Name top 3 scoring fpl players for each team. If you are shite at spelling I suggest you don’t give it a go. 😉
Get on and do that survey. You got 10 minutes to do it. I got 80% right before time ran out on me.
No cheating! I didn’t use anything to help me.
Got 80% as well, 48 out of 60! However got no one from Cardiff or Newcastle, guess that goes to show that I haven’t considered anyone from them this season… 😆
I got no one from Cardiff and missed 2 from Saints. I got Newcastle ones, but that’s because I cover them in pressers so I can think of their names rather quickly.
I tried it on mobile but it won’t let you progress to the next team if you don’t get all 3 correct? I’ll have a go again tomorrow afternoon when I’m on my laptop.
Love Sporcle!
I got 87% (52 correct). Knew another 3 but spelling let me down
Great quiz. Thanks for sharing.
Great scoring Chips, call it 55 out of 60 then. Off to give it a go myself now, I’ll let you know the outcome but I doubt I’ll be troubling your score!
FFS, I got 42! And my spelling was impecible
42% or 42 of 60? Although either way that’s quite horrendous 🙂
One would be considerably worse than the other to be fair! I got 42/60. Have you done it, in the midst of throwing stones out of vodka filled houses?
Ehem, perhaps check out the post 9.1 here 😆
Ah ok sorry, you obviously did considerably better!
Thanks for the article Beka, glad to see you back on the site.
She’s changed her Grav, I’m surprised you recognised her…
:popcorn:
I have been following her on Twitter for a while, so I wasn’t fooled. 😉
I just sort of roasted United and ummm Mourinho. I however have to replace Mendy and probably Fraser. I can get Martial and Lindelof (2 united player) and be break even. Is it crazy to go for Lindelof?
Yep, avoid
I think there are better picks at 4.8m or so, Duffy, Digne, Boly, Jonny, Fernandez, and the like, who are nailed whereas Lindelof might be a few errors away from a benching…
Thanks Beka, always an interesting read. At last USA has something to cheer about!
The manager in the top 10 who still has all chips remaining must be loving it!
Cookie, I applied Beka’s mathematical methodology to work out that USA’s 2 players in the top 10 amounts to a percentage of 20%.
I arrived at this result using the following calculations:
2*10
=20%
Q.E.D.