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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Great research but I would imagine most folk have the usual suspects…..it is the differential players that really make the difference to a good score or not.
On a separate issue COME ON SCOTLAND.
Are you targeting any differentials, JamieMc? Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.
I’ve been musing over Kane – which ones have you been thinking about?
I guess we may never know!
Jamie, the answer to your observation is in the article really, in total and over a possible 110 players picked there were only 32 different ones used :
GK’s: 5
Defenders: 9
Midfielders: 13
Forwards: 5
And some of those were clearly just like for like or cheaper picks such as Laporte/Mendy etc.
Differentials? Only ones that really stand out are Milner and Paterson and I’d suspect they may have slipped in as subs. Perhaps you could put Kenedy, Gudmundsson and Deulofeu in that category.
Morning All
Amazing research into the top players of FPL!
Thoughts on my proposed moves:
Neves OUT D Silva IN
Vardy OUT Jiminez IN
To faciliate the above I’m 0.1m short so have to downgrade Duffy to Dunk
0.3 ITB 2 FT
Thoughts on doing -4 or is there a better way to get D Silva in?
Thanks!
hey Hazk – I’d be inclined to go for Martial over Silva and save yourself the -4?
Same as Dreamers here Haz, Martial or even Richarlison instead and no hit.
Thanks @thedreamers @inittowinit
Why would you pick Martial over D Silva? Other than the -4 hit
Thanks!
Massively in form and arguably has better fixtures ahead. And doesn’t cost -4
Another high quality article. Bravo – that’s a fantastic analysis of current ownership. Thanks for consecrating so much of your time for the common good! Have a nice IB – ( you AND the other FF247 contributors!).
If anyone is looking for Mendy replacements, I’ve had a look at the defensive prospects for his popular replacements. Interesting stuff – City and Liverpool on paper have some of the trickier opposition over the next four. Likely not helped by the fact they both have three away games.
Hope people find it useful!
Nice work AT. So basically it’s Dunk, Balbuena and Digne on top for the next 4? Or am I reading that wrong.
Well Doherty is certainly up there as well with the Shots on Target by Opposition side of the table… Plus attacking threat!
They were all a much a muchness and so I largely ignored that as a stat, well ok completely!
Yep Init. And if yoi can be bench any of them for their tricky fixture, I think you’re onto a winner
Nice attempt at English! Are you with Silvers? :beer:
I’ll take that as a yes! To the beer bit anyway 😉
So this would suggest Dunk (Duffy for me though) is the best bet? However, you’ve left out the replacement who’s on my mind at the moment, although via a slight twist, from GW15 onwards, so I’d buy a 4.7m def (say Duffy according to your table) for the next 2 (although I do fancy Wolves as well so Jonny could be my choice too, already have Doherty), and then I’d have cash to sell Zabaleta for my “actual”, money-wise, Mendy replacement… But like I said, he’s not in your list, wonder whether you could crack the numbers for him too? 😀
You haven’t said who he is!
Spurs?
Isn’t it obvious?
He has amazing fixtures from GW15 all the way to GW27!!! The worst fixture of that stretch is United at home in GW22 (so that’s to say that the worst fixture in reality is Everton away in GW18), so that’s just purely amazing!!! He’s third in Total Score of all defenders thus far, 2pts above Mendy, and he’s top in creativity of all defenders!!!
Digne? 😉
Digne is in the list…. Try again!
Only left out because of the next two! I’ll crunch them in two GWs’ time 😉
AT, its just a blurred picture for me, sort it.:p
Just click on the pic itself and it goes nice and large and clear. Or put on your glasses if you already have.
Interesting read. Thank you.
Morning all,
I trust everyone is well?
Has anyone made any moves yet? If so what you done?
I’m thinking of rolling my FT for GW13, what you reckon?
Morning Mitro. Rolling a transfer!? You feeling okay?
If you’re happy with Barkley for another week, I think I would roll it.
I have been more controlled this season!
Was tempted to do Barkley to Schürrle as a punt but I can’t think of anything else! Need some funds freeing up!
Yeah, slim pickings at that price. I think I’d only be looking at Kenedy tbh. Not sure it’s worth your free transfer!
Save your ft i think, I’m planning on saving my ft also.
My team with 0 in the bank…
Evening Mitro, I actually like that as a one week punt given their respective fixtures this week and at least we know Schurrle will play. Trouble is their fixtures after that so it depends on your longer term plans.
Looking at Kenedy myself..have to ask not what he can do for Toon but what he can do for my fantasy team…I’ll get me my coat…