Fantasy Football Trends From The Top GW21 Analysis
Welcome to Trends From The Top – What Are The Leaders Doing? After a small hiatus, I welcome you to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. In previous weeks, the trends showed that the popular picks were indeed the wise ones. This week however, saw a bit of division amongst the top ten as well as a fascinating occurrence while selecting team captains. Read on to learn more…
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 21?
This week, for the first time in many, many gameweeks (I really mean seasons), an interesting phenomenon occurred in which there were 5 different captain picks among our leaders. This is indeed incredibly odd for those fighting for the top spot as they usually tend to go with the safe and popular selection. Four of our leaders selected Hazard (6 points), while another 2 selected Aubameyang (18 points). If you were to have taken our Captain Poll’s word for it, you would see that 32% of the voting population made Hazard the #1 pick. Additionally, another 20% predicted that Kane would be the second strongest selection. In summation, 52% of voters predicted these two folk. If you add in Aubameyang who received 17% and Salah who received 13%, it’s actually quite statistically fascinating that two of the top ten selected Son, who received only 4% of the vote, and yet yielded the greatest reward as he brought in 26 points as captain. This shows that sometimes, it pays to take a risk and pick ‘another’ player especially if you are looking to make a leap up the leaderboard.
Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 21?
Goalkeepers: For Gameweek 21, the most popular goalie was Fabianski as he was selected by 60% of the top ten. Pickford, Lloris, Ederson and Lossl each received 10%.
Defenders: When we look at defenders for Gameweek 21, we see one dominant player. Digne was selected by 8 of the top managers. Alonso and Doherty were the next popular picks with 50%. Kolasinac and was chosen by 30% of the best followed by Robertson, Lindelöf and Trippier at 20% and Laporte, Alexander-Arnold, Bennett, Holebas and Azpilicueta with 10% each. In all, there were 12 defenders selected by our top leaders.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had only 10 different picks. 100% selected Salah followed by Richarlison with 70%, Pogba and Hazard with 60%, Son with 50%, Anderson with 40%, Fraser with 30%, Snodgrass and Pereyra with 20% and Kante with 10% ownership.
Forwards: This week, 8 forwards made the cut. 70% of our leaders had Kane. Jimenez received 50%, Rashford 40% and Aubameyang 20% while Zaha, Mitrovic, Arnautovic and Wilson came in with 10% ownership.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 21 were Fabianski, Digne, Alonso, Doherty, Salah, Richarlison, Pogba, Hazard, Son, Kane and Jimenez as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
Other interesting facts:
The average squad value for Gameweek 21 among the top 10 was 104.6 and the average number of total trades was 20.6.
Four of the top 10 have only utilised 1 chip.
As in previous weeks, we saw a lot of diversity this week when looking at the nationalities of our top 10 managers. 2 players were from Sweden while 8 other nations were represented. Finland is in the top position followed by Sweden, Serbia, Kuwait, Zimbabwe, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, India and England!
Will knowing any of this information, impact or influence and fantasy football trades? Let us know in the comment section below and as always, best of luck in Gameweek 22!
A very special shoutout to The Furmanvilles as their manager celebrates a very special birthday!
Best of luck in Gameweek 22!
**All top 10 info was compiled just prior to Thursday nights game between Man City & Liverpool – 2 of the top 10 were replaced as a result of this game.
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Trends From The Top GW21 Analysis. This article was written by Bekachan17
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We’d love to love to ‘use’ Beka more but you literally have to tie her down to do so… Our globetrotting New York Superwoman found a stationary minute or two to grace is with her wonderful presence and tells us how we should be playing the game. And unsurprisingly it’s not that much different to how we do!
Many thanks Beka :clap:
Nice one Beka. I was inspired to do a bit of additional research about the national leagues that each are in. From 1 to 10 they are respectively:
Finland, Sweden, Serbia, Kuwait, Zimbabwe, Norway, Sweden, England, New Zealand and Israel.
・Only one of these ten is an African country, meaning Zimbabwe represent 10% of the nations involved, yet a staggering 100% of all participating African nations.
・Sweden have the largest national representation with an impressive 20%. The mathematicians ahead of the curve here will have figured out that equates to precisely two out of the ten.
・Approximately half of these leagues MAY have been chosen to give the player concerned the best chance of being top. If it is indeed the case that five out of the ten have done so, we are looking at a percentage of 50%.
Bry, great information and very interesting and insightful! I hadn’t realized that EPL had such a strong following from folks from Sweden.
I see Toni at #1 had Rashford last on his bench – (I know he was doubtful, but) what’s he playing at!?
No idea! Surely if you’re keeping him (assuming he’d summised he may not play) you play him anyway on the off chance that he starts / comes on, certainly ahead of Kante anyway. Or at the very, very least 1st on the bench ahead of Torreira.
Kante and Torreira on the same team tells me they love good tackling mids. They must take their team balance very seriously.
Just toying with us.
Next week he or she will notch up a score of 93(-4).
Wow! His season history is terrible but this season hes on fire! Couple of chips used but great returns from all three.
Interesting article.
One looks on wistfully, wondering what may have been.
Many thanks Beka, interesting stats as ever. Hope you’re well and having a good season yourself.
Thanks, Cookie! At one point I was in FF247’s top 50. Took a small dip but am hoping to climb back up the ranks! Hope you too are having a great season!
Thanks Beka, seems like most of us have similar players, guessing the difference lies in how early they get them in and when they get rid of them, that and captain picks is probably what has them ranked so high compared to most of our sorry arses.
HI Mito21. I was incredibly lucky this season as I had a good first pick…it made the difference! But then I used my wildcard…sigh.
How’s your season panning out Beka? Sounds like mine with the WC mention!
Who’s the birthday tribute too?!
Great stuff Beka
Thanks!