Fantasy football Trends From The Top – GW14
What Are The Leaders Doing? A Look to Gameweek 15.
Welcome to this week’s edition of Fantasy football Trends From the Top. For the first time since writing this piece, I decided to reflect on the trends and the actual outcomes for the following week. Last week, the players which were identified as “must-haves” were Kolarov (7 pts for GW 14), Mahrez (2 pts), Ozil (10 pts), Barkley (13 pts), Lukaku (6 points), and Vardy (9 pts). If I personally had taken the recommendations of the leaders and had these 6 particular players on my team, I would have yielded 47 points (and that’s without the double points of a captain and with 5 additional players remaining!) You too, would have had the same! As you know, the overall average this week was 51 points. So, what did you do and how did you fare? You can probably guess that by my revelation of sorts, I did not have all the above mentioned players on my squad. It does however lead me to wonder the following: If I take this week’s recommendations, how will I do next week if I insert them all into my team? Let’s take a look and see how the trends of the leaders evolved if at all.
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Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 14?
This week, 60% of the top ten managers selected Lukaku who wasn’t the best pick but alas, we do not have crystal balls! 2 top managers fortuitously selected De Bruyne (32 points) with the remaining 2 leaders selecting Ozil (20 points).
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Are the Top 10 going to “stick” around?
I know this question was posted in last week’s piece as well but upon doing research, it came to my attention that 4 of the top 10 were new to the leader board which once again shows that the dust has not yet settled. And as discussed on the fantasyfootball247 website, these “chips” are making things less predictable. 5 of the top players have deployed ALL chips while our current leader has yet to exhaust one. Of the top ten, only 1 player has done well in past years. Byron Gillespie, currently in 6th place has finished in the top 1% for three previous seasons (33,974, 36,078 and 39,931); he has however, used all of his chips.
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 14?
Goalkeepers: For this past gameweek 60% of the top managers selected Cech while 10% had Schmeichel, Butland, de Gea and Hennessey.
Defenders: This week we saw 13 defenders make the cut for top managers. Kolarov had 60% ownership while Bellerin also ranked highly with 50% of managers selecting him. Smalling came in at 40% while Alderweireld, Dann, Clyne and Sagna were the next most popular picks with 30% ownership followed by Coleman at 20% and Monreal, Moreno, Walker, Jenkinson and Koscielny each with 10%.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers only had 10 different picks. Barkley was the most popular pick with 100% ownership followed by Ozil at 80%, De Bruyne at 70%, Mahrez at 50%, Sanchez and Cabaye at 20% and Ayew, Deulofeu, Eriksen and Hoolahan each with 10%.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of only 5 picks among the top managers which is the lowest amount of variety we have seen this season. Lukaku came in with 100% while Vardy remained the next popular pick as he received 70%. Ighalo was added to the squad as 7 of the top ten managers chose him while Aguero and Martial were each selected by 10%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 14 were Cech, Kolarov, Mahrez, Bellerin, DeBruyne, Ozil, Barkley, Lukaku, Ighalo and Vardy as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher. And if you are curious, these 10 players tallied up a score of 73 points.
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Other interesting facts:
• The average score for Gameweek 14 among the top 10 was 82.5 points which is 31.5 points above average for the week.
• We almost had for the first time, leaders representative of 10 different countries! Scotland holds the #1 position followed by S. Africa (2), Sweden (3), England (4 and 10), Canada (5), Norway (6), Australia (7), Bosnia-Herzegovina (8), and the USA (9).
• The average team value was £105.2 with £106.9 being the highest team value and £104 being the lowest value.
• 21 points separates 1st place from 10th.
Hope this was interesting.
Best of luck in Gameweek 15.
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…because Abramovich has sacked Mourinho
Or because anyone can score against Bournemouth
Ivanovic backing Costa to start next game too in his interview earlier.
I posted in a conversation higher up but i don’t know if anyone other than NIN saw it so I thought I’d post again.
Anyone watch the City game and have a reflection on Silva’s performance?
What about Loverpool with Hendo and Sturridge making returns?
I had the Liverpool game on, but didn’t watch too closely. Sturridge was mostly invisible and Hendo was busy defending when they came on.
How do you think Sturridge will fit in with Klopp’s style? I think the idea of him running off of Tekkers, with Coutinho and Firmino creating for them sounds like goals aplenty.
Id be worried he plays out wide as well
Silva is always good. Sturridge has not played in so long would have to give him a few weeks before even considering him
I tend to agree, but if he’s going to play then I like his chances in the next 6:
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I’ve just taken a look out of curiosity at which formation the top 10 deployed. Interestingly, the top 3 and #8 all played with 4 at the back. Almost all of them would have been better off playing with an additional defender as 9-8-7-6-5-2 all left either a Spurs or Chelsea defender on the bench and #1 left Kolorov there.
Seems it may be a better season than usual to invest in defenders. Thoughts on this?
It’s easy to say defenders are scoring well, it’s difficult picking which defenders will score well on a particular week.
Generally speaking, it only takes one moment to ruin a defender’s GW.
I played with 1 this week
So yeah I probably need to buy some defenders that actually play!
Ill happily loan out Daniels to you.
That 1 defender got you 7pts, pick another 2 that do that every week and you’re in. :thumbup:
Hey boss, whats your preference as to a Sanchez replacement ?
Straight choice with no other considerations? Ozil.
Evening,
This is currently my team for GW15, thoughts?
1FT & 0ITB
Looks good Mitro. If anything happens to Kun i’m sure Mane v Villa will be an able sub. Save the ft.
That’s what I’m thinking mate – would like to get in silva possibly next week or the following GW
Mitro, why do you do this to yourself every week?!
If that were me, Mane would play, possibly for Deulofeu but that’s a pretty tough call.
Lol – I need to down size some of my squad
Probably will go with mane but it may be for Mahrez if not deulofeu
You should play Mane against Villa but maybe worrying about the midweek game Southampton will play .Swap McCarthy to Hennessey and you have goalies who rotate for the whole season,and possibly play him against Everton.
Guys, I’m thinking of holding on to sanchez if he’s only going to be out for three weeks
As deulofeu is on my bench. Also what’s the thinking on Moreno for souare. Cheers.
His price will drop which may cause a problem for future transfers.I sold him for Ramsey and will buy him back when he is fit and costs 11 mill.