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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I hate IB, they make me buy shoes, I obviously do this so I don’t make a load of transfers!
I have just watched 2 hours of rugby union which I don;t know much about,but it seemed a close game so I watched it. Not bad but get the Prem on asap!! Championship games just do not cut it.
The Championship is a highly underrated league if you ask me.
It’s also one that does not play during the IB
I just watched Ireland beat New Zealand. I’m not sure any football match will come close to it this season.
+1
cracking game Kop
Feels like you’re trialing that excuse on here prior to presenting it to your other half! One audience may have empathy, I can’t speak for the other… good luck!
It was but he saw right through it, apparently I don’t want to go shopping on Saturday when football is on! Who knew?
Why the need to make excuses for buying shoes?
My OH seems to buy shoes every week there’s NO International break and just laughs at my resigned look
Red, he said there is no room for anymore shoes!
Yup. Bigger wardrobes was what happened to solve that issue.
I’m not looking forward to the next couple of years by which time a bigger house might be the next solution.
Evening all.
3 green arrows in a row has taken me to the giddy heights of #483,000 in the overall rankings :bouncy-balls:
What, if anything, should I be looking at doing with this lot?
I haven’t actually watched any football or paid real attention to the game at all for a month so open to pretty much any suggestions from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Have you got any spends or transfers?
1 transfer and £0.9m ITB.
Should also mention I still have my WC.
Save transfer for this week and bring Arnie in for Murray next week?
Sounds like good advice having just looked at WHU’s fixtures. I’ll bear that in mind next week.
Team looks fine as it is Robbo, I’d save it this week.
Cheers Init. I got on-line for about 5 mins in Cuba, which was enough time to swap Hazard & Maddison to Barkley and Sterling last GW after a glance at the FPL form tables last GW, for all the difference that made.
You can relax for this one then, perhaps. Maybe log in next Friday if possible for a quick check to make sure none of them have suddenly got injured but otherwise you are good to go. How long have you got left there now?
Arrived back today Init so just catching up on who has been playing each week really – bringing in Barkley was a complete punt based on form – does it look like he’ll be getting regular game-time, as he only made a cameo after I bought him.
No idea in all honesty. I wouldn’t feel overly safe with him on any given week but of course he will get his share of time.
Morning all.
Just thinking, if I swap Mendy for Dunk or Duffy. I could either
1 bring in Salah for Mane
2 bring in Sterling for Mane means no Liverpool attack but could also bring in Anderson later
What do you think?
Nothing is going to be done till Friday but just throwing ideas around
Morning Carolyn
Not owing Salah will hurt you I feel so 1 for me
And England profit from Liverpool employing a throw in expert! Yet many mocked
I think I am in big troubl, have 3 yellow and Mendy red. Already -4, I have 1.1 in bank.
Shll I change Mendy for -8 or pray oher three yellow will go untill Friday?
I would suggest you wait until news on Obi Wan and Doherty and hope the latter is fit as he has the easier game. I am in the same boat with Obi & Trips so I have done Mendy to Laporte for a -4. as I would only have had 2 defenders and Laportes price was going up & Mendys will go down.But a -8 is a step too far I think.