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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is Eric Dier a risk now?
got benched early last week
any bad signs?
Morning all I cant believe Ozil , KDB & Luk are dropping in price what is wrong with people I know they have lost a bit of form but all have reasonable fixtures coming up mad 😉
im keeping both kdb and Ozil, but if i would play my wc this week i think i would get silva and Sanchez instead
Silvers, Aguero is only on 25% of teams, half of which are dead ones (he was on around 13% when injured), so that would explain Luk being transferred out.
As for Ozil and KdB I’d say it’s either raising money and a spot for a certain Chilean or simply out of form.
DMC I see why , but you would be thinking maybe drop Kane fixture wise & high priced def although Ozil has gone of the boil I’m not far from pressing the trigger on him.
Yeah, maybe two arsenal mids is too much at the moment, specially with one of them being out of form (Ozil) and the other coming from injury (Alexis), so I can see why people would choose just one (except Mitro, who said he’d go with both I think).
As for Kane vs Luk, I’m not sure that people shipping Luk also have Kane. These may well be teams with Ighalo-Vardy-Luk where to fit in Aguero it has to be Luk. I do agree with you though, spurs don’t have easy fixtures ahead, specialy between GW26 and 29.
Thanks Beka another great read. Missed this article a lot over the Christmas. Interesting how most of the top have used their wild cards do you reckon they may not have realized that there are new rules with this wild card?
Anyway this week I have 2 FT and not sure if I want to make any haha that’s a good thing right? I may have to though, I’ve been taking a risk the past couple weeks with double Watford and Palace at the back. Hennessey and Dann, Gomes and Cathcart. So my thinking is to ship out one of the DF. I’ll have a look at the tips article during the week but my gut says Cresswell
sound good i think, im thinking of getting Creswell in myself ( for Sagna)
I can do straight swap Dann for Cresswell
those thinking of alli, do you not think he will be forced back into DM now with dier going into CB with vert injured?
Don’t think so adam. The kid has flair and spurs have other options for DM.
Thats some good research work Beka.. You a PhD?haha. seriously man.good job. One thing that I see is, how safe the top 10 are playing. I mean going with the pure template players. I mean just 3/10(as only one of the two could play) unique GKs, 17/50 Defs, 12/50 Mids and just 6/30 Forwards. This means we need to include some differentials to beat the rest of the parties. Just a thought.
In deed constantine, where’s Pancho when you need him?
One more differential article required from Pancho..
Would be perfect before a DGW when many will be using WC !
Plan on waiting till last mine before any changes but has anyone got any early ideas on what to do with this lot?
2 FTs and 1.1m in the bank.
Nothing much to do unless you want Sanchez or Ali immediately, would probably just change kepper to Hennessey and save the other FT