Fantasy football Trends From The Top – GW23
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. Just in case you were interested, this article was started in Shanghai, edited in Detroit and completed in NYC. What a day and what a game week especially if you had key players such as Aguero, Alli (who was sitting on my bench) and Ighalo! Let’s take a deeper look to see what our fantasy leaders are doing in order for us to better assess and plan any possible next moves.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 23?
This week you might be surprised to know that only 40% of the top ten managers selected Aguero (24 points), especially since 80% of our top managers own him. An additional manager also chose wisely in selecting Ighalo (24 points), while another 40% selected Lukaku (4 points) with the last remaining manager selecting Kane (10 points).
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What recent trend have most of the top managers been deploying?
In researching this week’s leaders, it was interesting to see that once again, most managers have already deployed their 2nd wildcard. These leaders certainly thought it would be beneficial to take such a chance early on. What we are seeing is that the wildcard is pretty essential if you need/want to bring Aguero in due to his hefty price tag and that is what the leaders are essentially doing. 40% of the top leaders have used all their chips which is inclusive of 2 wildcards, the all-out-attack, bench boost and triple captain.
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What are some other interesting findings regarding our top leaders?
Four of the top 10 for this week have been in the top 10 for over 10 weeks!
-Our 8th ranked leader, Struthious D, a player we have discussed a few times in this piece has held the first place position for an impressive 7 weeks and the second place position for 5 weeks. Struthious D, took a small dive this week as he only brought in 37 points.
-Wombats, our number two has finally returned to the top ten after being MIA for a few weeks. Wombat held the top position for Gameweeks 10, 11 and 12.
-None of our leaders have ever finished in the top 1%.
-2 of our leaders are new to the top ten.
Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 23?
Goalkeepers: For this past gameweek 60% of the top managers selected Cech while 30% had Butland and 10% de Gea.
Defenders: This week we saw 17 defenders make the cut for top managers. Interestingly enough, Alderweireld (70%) was the only defender with an ownership rate of over 50%. Sagna and Bellerin came in at 40% while Koscielny was the next most popular pick with 30% ownership followed by Johnson and Dann with 20%, and Morgan, Shawcross, Fonte, Nyom, Smalling, Francis, Huth, Azpilicueta, McAuley, Dier and Simpson each with 10%.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 12 different picks with several getting only 10% of the vote such as Wijnaldum, Cabaye, Yaya Toure, and Barkley. Mahrez was the most popular pick with 80% ownership followed by Ozil at 60%, Payet and Alli at 50%, De Bruyne at 30% and Ayew, Willian and Deulofeu at 20%.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of only 6 picks among the top managers. Aguero came in with 80% (and I am sure this will rise to 100%) while Kane, Lukaku and Ighalo each had 60% ownership. Vardy was selected by 30% of the top managers with Giroud on 10%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 23 were Cech, Alderweireld, Mahrez, Alli, Payet, Ozil, Kane, Lukaku, Ighalo and Aguero as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
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Other interesting facts:
-The average score for Gameweek 23 among the top 10 was 59.2 points which is meager 16.2 points above average for the week. (Statistically it has been much higher in past game weeks).
-England maintained control of most of the leader board as 40% of the top 10 were from England. The remaining countries were Australia, Scotland, Canada, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden, and Denmark.
-24 points separates 1st place from 10th.
Best of luck in Gameweek 24!
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Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Trends From The Top – GW23 Fantasy Premier League 2015-16. This article was written by Rebekah H
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Beka
Thanks for this excellent piece. Always great to know how the leaders got on. Personally can’t understand being in the top 10, having Aguero but NOT captaining him. Especially after him sounding the week before with two goals.
Thanks for your efforts once more.
Firmino away to Leicester
or
Kdb away to Sunderland
You’d expect City to roll Sunderland but KdB hasn’t done a single thing away from home since GW7. Firmino scored more points last week away from home than KdB has in every away game in total since GW7.
thank you Sir
may be am gonna do KdB to Firmino then
Livpool fixtures look good
Many thanks Beka! be insteresting to see how the current top 10 changes as others start to play their wildcards and other chips etc.
Your time and research is appreciated as ever, especially given your globe-trotting status!! Cheers Beka.
well i have 3 chips left
2nd WC, Bench boost and Triple Cap
not sure when to use it
there chips are a pain actually
how would this be?
WC the week before the Delayed GW
Triple Cap on the Delayed GW
bench boost on a bright shiny week if that ever comes fixture wise
There are 2 chips that seem made for DGW’s which are BB and TC. Ideally you use the WC the week before one and BB the week of it. Then use TC for the other. Which way round will depend on the teams involved.
cheers
that helps
another 137k to climb to reach top 100k
hope there chips help my cause
will be more than please to end the season in the top 100k
Hence my point Nishant – a well used Bench Boost will have given these guys a small lift, maybe also Triple Captain – but if used successfully on a DGW, its double bubble, therefore this top 10 may well be slightly skewed at the moment. Be intersting to see a graph of the top 10 at the end of the season, showing their progress through the rankings as the season progressed.
I’m not taking anything away from these guys, they clearly have played excellently to this point.
yes they will be affected with other top 100 players still with the chips available
wonder how they reach that top 10 spot overall
Well if we can find one of them, I can interview him and find out.
Well the FF247 league leader is currently on #337 with 1380 pts, meaning 60 pts-ish from 1st spot!
Go Arsenic! If not fot the win, at least for an interview with Mr. Cookie and his Monsters!!!
Thanks Cookie! Sorry I missed the week before as I was in the air and unable to submit. Writing and sharing this article is one of the highlights of my week.
Right to bench Ozil? Planning to save FT and get Sanchez for Kdb and Firmino for Mahrez together with 2FT’s. Thoughts?
Seriously you’re thinking of benching Ozil? I’m not that keen on the Saints defence and would be playing Monreal also over Targett. If you don’t fancy Ozil to play him at home to Southampton why not just sell him for Firmino this week?
Targett is mainly for attacking potential, played Target against ManU last week and benched Monreal, cresswell and it paid off. Who would you bench for Ozil, Mahrez against poor Pool defense or Kdb against Sunderland (last match for him)
I’d prob bench Ighalo or KDB Snookie.
Morning all, very stuck on what to do!
Ighalo’s fixtures are tough now and the plan since around GW21 was to go Ighalo to Lukaku for this next run of games. Do you think this is an astute move?
2FT and nothing in the bank.
Thinking that to raise the cash I should drop KDB, thoughts? Thinking Firmino or Alli at the moment (although would need Lukaku to drop at least a day before others raise in (or KDB drops) in order to grab Firmino.
Really not sure, thanks in advance.
Also, what’s the deal with Walker?
AT, big rotation going on at the mo and Walker has missed the last couple as he has played the Cup games just before the league match.
I wouldn’t argue with those moves AT if the cash situation falls into place for you. I haven’t kept in contact with the price changes but I would think KDB to Firmino would be a popular transfer despite Leicester’s impressive defensive record of late.
Cookie, yeah it is a concern. Seriously considering KDB to Alli, Ighalo to Lukaku and then the following week doing Walker to Ivanovic!
I know it’s a lot to put aside for a Chelsea player but he seems to be bringing the assists again, something that made him indispensable last year. Alternatively Azpi is an option, seems to be getting forward more than previous years. Great fixtures!
Bit stuck at the moment, here is my struggling team. Two vaguely green arrows the last couple of weeks, although sat just outside the top 500k…
2 free transfers, 1mill in the bank.
Any suggestions? I’m fairly happy with my team this week, maybe look to getting rid of Ighalo for a few weeks – lukaku?
a bit much invested in your defence i think, downgrade one or two and get lukaku for vardy or ighalo.
Vardy to Lukaku and Alderweireld to Souare uses all my budget? Not sure any other defender for 4.4mill has decent fixtures.
Havent looked at fixtures but Daniels is cheap and on penalties