Fantasy football Trends From The Top – GW25
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. For this week’s publication, I sit at my computer reviewing and reflecting upon EPL results while my family and the rest of America is engrossed in the 4th quarter of the Superbowl. I know some folks may think I’m odd but personally, I am indeed more curious to understand Firmino’s rise to success rather than the outcome of Manning’s quarterback performance. Blasphemous to many I know! Having now, perhaps shared too much information, let’s take a look at the top trends for gameweek 25.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 25?
This week, 50% of the top ten managers selected Aguero as captain (12 points), 30% Firmino (26 points), and 20% Kane (4 points). What is interesting here is the fact that Firmino has virtually been off the top ten radar until this week.
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What’s the deal with Firmino and how is it that he’s finally appearing on the radar of the Top Ten?
As you will see below, Firmino was selected by only 4 of the top managers and prior to this week, there has been no talk of him in Trends from the Top. What is interesting about this is that Firmino is actually owned by 14.3% of managers and has had some really great gameweeks since Klopp decided to make him Liverpool’s main striker. Firmino played his first full 90 minutes on December 26th where he earned an assist and brought his owners/managers 8 points. In GW 21, Firmino scored 2 goals (13 points) against Arsenal and in GW 23 scored another 2 (18 points) against Norwich. His form is insane as it is currently at 9.6. And while Liverpool is not playing in Gameweek 27, GW 26 against Aston Villa as well as an upcoming double gameweek, make Firmino a very attractive addition to one’s squad. I only wish I had made him my captain as opposed to my vice captain!
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 25?
Goalkeepers: For this past gameweek 70% of the top managers selected Cech while de Gea, Butland and Hennessey were each owned by 10%.
Defenders: This week we saw 15 defenders make the cut for top managers. Interestingly enough, Alderweireld (70%) was the only defender with an ownership rate of 50% or higher. Dann, Koscielny and Azpilicueta all came in at 30% while Johnson, Cresswell and Bellerin were the next most popular picks with 20% ownership followed by Fonte, Ward, Dawson, Kolarov, Jammaat, Cedric, Francis and Dier each with 10%.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 11 different picks with several getting only 10% of the vote such as Sanchez, Eriksen, Sigurdsson, and Arnautovic. Ozil was the most popular pick with 90% ownership followed by Alli and Mahrez at 70%, Barkley and Payet at 50%, Firmino at 40% and Willian with 20%.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of 7 picks among the top managers. Aguero came in with 90% while Kane was the next popular pick as he received 80%. Vardy was selected by 30% of the top managers with Lukaku and Ighalo receiving 20%. Valencia and Giroud each received 10%.
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In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 25 were Cech, Mahrez, Alderweireld, Alli, Barkley, Payet, Ozil, Aguero and Kane as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
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What are some other interesting findings regarding our top leaders?
2 of the top players are new to the top 10.
-The most impressive top ten player for this current season is Ryan Grzegowski’s team the Wombats.
-The Wombats are currently in 9th place and have been in the top ten for 14 weeks.
-Chris Rigden’s, I’m Glad All Over team is currently in 5th place and Chris has pretty good stats…the best of the leaders. Chris finished 31,905 for the 2011/2012 season and 15,153 for the 2012/2013 season. He has only used his first wildcard and has yet to deploy any chips. He is certainly one to watch.
-Our current leader finished 373,975 for the 2014/2015 season.
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Other interesting facts:
-The average score for Gameweek 25 among the top 10 was 73.7 points which is 18.7 points above average for the week.
-England maintains the lead for having the most players in the top ten. This week 40% of our leaders were from England followed by Australia, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Scotland and Bosnia-Herzegovina each coming in with 10%.
-The average team value was £106.6 with £108.6 being the highest team value and £104.9 being the lowest value.
-29 points separates 1st place from 10th.
Best of luck in Gameweek 26!
@bekachan
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Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Trends From The Top – GW25 Fantasy Premier League 2015-16. This article was written by Rebekah H
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Am I on the naughty list? All my comments are awaiting moderation!?
Pretty much, yeah. Too many selection headache RMT’s around here these days, so you’ve been made the scapegoat. Bye Mitro
FFS
Toodle-Pip old chap.
Probably for the best
Sorry about that guys, site security is having a mare and blocking everyone’s comments! It’s an auto thing that detects for spam. I’ll keep an eye on it this evening.
Wow, just seen Zouma is out for six months. Sickener.
Someone mention chips if so I will have a bag with salt & vinegar
Evening Silvers, how goes it?
Evening NiN been a bit busy @ work this bloody oil crisis is killing us.
Just about hanging in there how about you mate. 😉
Oil crisis? Mind me asking what it is you do?
All good here mate, just in work now myself. I’ve been covering for another guy as well as doing my own shifts the last week. 72 hrs last week and now tonight and Wednesday and then that’s me done for the week, i hope! Defo need a few beers after it, even though i rarely drink. A few whiskeys / scotch’s might be in order
It’s a lg time since I did those sort of hrs I’m a planning engineer & work for a company that make ISO tankers mainly for export , most carriying some form of oil based product & Cryogenic tank. So it’s been tough lately.
How about you mate what do you do ?
Cool, that’s very interesting but yeah, tough times just now. I work in security mate, nothing interesting or fancy about it! Haha. Just look after an AirBnB office during the night, 12hr shifts. There’s not a lot to it but between the long shifts and an hour and a half each way for travel, it gets tiresome.
I assume you design them tankers then mate, or something similar? Or do you construct them, as in welding etc? Sounds like a cool job.
Hey NiN sounds like an ok job I used to work for British Airway & Brittania Airway fixing planes but now I just work out hrs plan the work for the factory , make schedules & capacity plans quite boring really sit on a chair most of the day on computer.
I will have to watch what I say to you from now on being in security haha.
Good stuff mate, sounds like you’ve done the nitty gritty work for long enough now so a more relaxing environment for you now :thumbup: I tried to get into aircraft maintenance years ago but i couldn’t take the job even though they offered it to me. Would have been good to get to know about the guts of aircraft.
Yep, you better believe it! Haha. I’m not in this place long, just a couple of weeks now. Was doing day work i retail security but it is literally the biggest load of shite i’ve ever come across so i had to get out of it. Too much hassle with general lunatics on the street for my liking – i’ll take the cushy night work please
To all my immediate Family, yes that’s you on FF247 where do I start?
As you know I have not appeared on here in ages so let me explain.
A few of you knew I was I’ll but never knew why?
Well how can I put this?
Sadly I have Lung Cancer, its a massive blow for me and all who love me and I know loads on here do, perverts !
But please don’t get upset because I need “Team Potty” behind me, and why you may ask?
Well its simple, with support behind me I will beat and destroy this fucking(sorry admin) crap disease.
For now I must rest as the chemotherapy has knackered me and my immune system.
My plan’s are if I recover is to host a “Potty Euro Fantasy Football” Tournament which I hope you’ll sign up for?
Plus I can’t die knowing that Inittowinit is the current holder can I?
Miss you all load’s but I need to recharge my sapping energy level’s.
See you in June.
Big Hugs xxxxx
Potty
Potty! Man, it’s great to finally see that No1 grav back on the forum! You have been missed my friend and have been in my / our thoughts all this time. Life is a pain in the bollocks sometimes mate but as you say, fight all the way! Really chuffed that you posted a comment buddy and all the best for speedy recovery. I look forward to some Potty madness in the summer comp
Big hugs x
‘Team Potty’ is indeed right behind you buddy. Horrible news but also great to see you and hear from you. Your article is going strong and being kept up by your ‘helpers’! Best of luck mate, we shall see you in June for the Euros but hopefully also hear from you in the meantime. #teampotty
TEAM POTTY HERE sad to here your news mate but we are all behind you , not literary. Hope you can fight this Tw– of a disease thinking of you & your family We will see you back on here in June to welcome you back.
Keep up the good fight we are all routing for you
Hi Potty very sad to here those dreadful news. I would like to state my admiration for your corage and strengh. Keep that going mate and we are all behnid you! My prediction: Potty wins!
cheers mate
Sorry to hear the bad news Potster. Keep your chin up mate during your troubles and you’ll come back stronger. I’ll be around in the summer to knock Init off his perch, don’t you worry about that. Take it easy mate and catch you soon.