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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Ok so let me get this straight. The teams that advance to the Capital One Finals will have a DGW on week 25? and will have a Blank GW on 27? Has it been confirmed yet? Teams involved are Liverpool/Stoke and Man. City/Everton.
Hi Eagle, nothing confirmed to that extent yet! All that is certain so far is that the finalists and their opponents in 27 (from Villa, Newcastle, Liverpool and Everton) will have a blank. Any DGW will then be discussed and agreed between the clubs. 25 is a possibility but probably the least likely. Go to Hot Comments and press on Mitos DGW excel sheet for a full picture. It’s literally a picture too.
Thanks for clarifying Initt. I forgot their opponents were involved too! Will keep in touch for DGW news as the days go by. Can’t wait to use my chips BB and TC that i’ve been saving all this time. Cheers Initt.
No probs and just to clarify the quirk which is that Liverpool would play Everton that week so regardless of actually getting there one would have a blank even if they didn’t and the other did.
Unlikely to make any transfers tonight but any thoughts are appreciated. 2 FT, 1.9ITB – I’d like Payet in.
Buy Payet then
For Mahrez. Leicester’s next 3 aren’t exactly great. I ran some numbers on it for Fixtures which you haven’t seen yet and their past results against the next 3 weren’t great either. They are having a tendency to be much tighter against the other top teams too whereas I like the next few for West Ham.
Init, Leicesters next fixture is against us, so thats not a toughie for them is it ?
I’ve narrowed it down to De Bruyne or Mahrez out.
I’m leaning towards De Bruyne out despite 2 good fixtures coming up. Doing that would give me cash to upgrade Watson and allow for rotation etc. over the blank weeks.
If I was brave I’d take out Mahrez (I bloody should have on my wildcard). What puts me off Mahrez is that I’d only get 6.3 for him and he has good fixtures from GW27.
They do mate. 3 horrible and then 3 really decent ones.
Downgrade Walker/Ward and upgrade Watson??
Walker is pissing me off. Where was this baby chat earlier in the week!?
Do Liverpool actually know that they are allowed to shoot?
Too many passes with no one taking any responsibility.
I’m a bundle of nerves watching this bloody game!!! I swear you would need a strong heart to be a Pool fan
I’ve got to say it’s not easy watching!
Not at all!! I’ve been watching through my fingers for most of it!! Coming close to hiding behind the couch. Worse than any horror movie. Haha
Next 3 a whole in comparison to West Ham. You did already beat them 1-0 this season. Point holds that they will approach it more defensively.
Oops, that was a reply to Elle above, wondered where it had gone!
You must have a strong heart then, you are a Pool fan. :p
Haha I must do but I’ll tell you I’ve been unsure of it at times 😛
Now Milner is bloody right back!!
Matt he actually did well there
Yeah wasn’t too bad, didn’t have too much to do though.
I’m going Stoke to win