Fantasy football Trends From The Top – GW16
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. Once again, the gameweek has not yet ended as Leicester and Chelsea have yet to play, but nonetheless it’s always interesting to take a peek at the current trends amongst this week’s leaders. It is interesting to note that sometimes, because of the weekly fluctuation of leaders, we will see variance in the top selected picks. This week however, while leaders changed, top selections remained quite constant. Let’s take a look.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 16?
This week, 50% of the top ten managers selected Lukaku who made managers quite happy as he brought in a healthy 18 points. Our other top managers selected DeBruyne (20% and 2 points), Ozil (10% and 12 points), Ighalo (10% and 14 points) and Kane (10% and 4 points).
Of the top 10, how many players do they have remaining in the Leicester/Chelsea match?
100% of the top 10 have Mahrez while 60% also have Vardy. There are no other players in their lineups.
What are some other interesting findings regarding our top leaders?
* Two of the leaders have yet to deploy any of their chips. Three of the leaders have exhausted all of their chips.
* The longest “reign” of any top 10 manager has been 7 weeks while 2 of the top leaders are new to the top.
* All in all, most chips have been used by most leaders.
* The best performing finish of any of the leaders is a very unimpressive 39,890.
Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 16?
Goalkeepers: For this past gameweek 50% of the top managers selected Cech while 20% had Butland or Hart and 10% had de Gea.
Defenders: This week we saw 14 defenders make the cut for top managers. Interestingly enough, Alderweireld (80% and 1 point) was the only defender with an ownership rate of 50% or higher. Dann and Kolarov had 40% ownership followed by Moreno, Koscielny, Bellerin, Smalling and Monreal with 20% and Cresswell, Sagna, Delany, Coleman, Wollscheid and Clyne each with 10%.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 10 different picks with several getting only 10% of the vote such as Sterling, Arnautovic, Silva, Bolasie and Coutinho. Mahrez and Barkley were the most popular picks with 100% ownership followed by Ozil at 70%, DeBruyne at 60%, and Ayew at 20%.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of 5 picks among the top managers. Lukaku came in with 100% while Ighalo was the next popular pick as he received 90%. Vardy received 60% while Kane was selected by 20% and Giroud received 10%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 13 were not many. They were Cech, Alderweirld, Mahrez, Ozil, Barkley, DeBruyne, Lukaku, Ighalo and Vardy as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
Three players, Lukaku, Mahrez and Barkley had an ownership rate of 100%.
Other interesting facts:
* The average score for Gameweek 13 among the top 10 was 49.2 points which is 17.2 points above average for the week.
* There was less this week regarding countries as England came back on top representing 50% of the top 10. 20% of managers came from Scotland while the remaining here players represent Canada, Slovenia and Ireland.
* The average team value was £106.6 with £108.1 being the highest team value and £104 being the lowest value.
* 27 points separates 1st place from 10th.
So that’s about it as gameweek 16 nears to an end. I personally can’t wait to see how things shape-up when double game week’s finally come into play as I speculate that a lot of folks, including myself may finally take advantage of the chips. How many how you used? I personally, have not used one!
Best of luck in Gameweek 17.
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There goes Hazard then. One point. Thanks a million.
Don’t think he fancied it,didn’t seem much in the challenge ?
There wasn’t much in it very soft in my eyes.
Think it says a lot about Chelsea at the moment,not enough players committed to the cause.
Exactly, Chelsea deserve to be where they are right now the players aren’t showing any desire or commitment, it wouldn’t surprise me to see an exodus from there during the summer.
Sucks to be Pedro!! From Barca to Chelski. And he could have got game time when Messi was injured (and now Neymar)!!! Wrong move, Pedro. Poor lad.
His bank won’t agree with you there. 😉
There wasn’t much in it, very soft in my eyes.
I’m about to have a NIN-like rant after Hazard goes off………jeez does nothing ever go right?!
I sold him months ago because I was sick of him only getting 1 or 2 points per game
Would of been better off with bloody Fellaini
Probably atleast he got 2 points haha
2pts? He got 9 on Saturday. Legend. Our best attacker.
Not this season.
Cricket starts soon Init
Me too, Cookie. This season is an absolute joke and I genuinely don’t know if I can be arsed anymore – no matter what I do it turns out shite. This’ll probably be my eighth drop in a row in the rankings which is the worst run I think I’ve ever had – so many people get away with flukey things like captaining Butland or Cabaye whilst I captain Kane too. How does that work?! No chance of winning my ML now and I’d be delirious if I finished in the top 100k.
Top 100k ?? I’d take top 1mln right now!!
Keep at it Swirly, not having any give ups on here – NIN tried that before and we’ve only just let him back! Then again, he’s back as Init’s Fixtures biatch!!
I got new one of those this week, it’s the ginger Father Christmas and he doesn’t even know it yet
I feel so used.
Don’t worry, we’ll ‘use’ you again next week 😉
Haha, cheers Cookie! I think I care too much about FPL – it affects the way I watch football and is definitely responsible for 95% of my phone usage over the weekends! Just desperate for some luck – is it asking too much to have the luck of captaining-Aguero-to-get-50-points-from-him style moment every gameweek?!
NIN, I think we should go on strike! #GingerFatherChristmas
All i have to say is this: :finger:
I hear you mate and I’m the same. Let’s have some the 2nd half of the season -we’ll set up a numpties league or something.
And of course we’ll have the FF247 Cup to play also.
Pancho – We’ll have to get on to the Union first. If that comes to nothing, then it be strike time.
Haha, I like the sound of a numpties league! And yeah, I need to get joining the leagues and cups on here – I always seem to miss the opportunity or, dare I say it, forget to join and then it’s too late.
Swirly, what’s your ranking mate?
Currently 474,867 – possibly about 450,000 after tonight’s match.
And you’re moaning??
Not sure you qualify as a numpty mate
Haha, how about this?!
Swirly, sending me love hearts isn’t going to work
Cookie…
Ok, you’re in!! I’ll set it up in the morning. But we need a qualifying rule – I only want grumpy underperforming useless numpties in it. Ah Init haha there you go – funny what one stumbles on in word association :hippo:
Ah, I knew my advances wouldn’t go unnoticed! Sounds like a plan, matey – drop me a line on the old Twitter with a link to the numpty league
OK – what’s your twitter handle again?
I ain’t joining no numpty league
It’s theswirly, matey. Either that or an email (nickname [at] talk21.com), if that’s easier. Thanks muchly
Found you Swirly, will chat you tomorrow and post on here for the grumpy fcks! And Init 😉
Jeez, Leicester don’t like to hang on to a lead calmly do they?!!
Do what i’m doing mate. Pick your capo and log out for a week.
Done that – picked Lukaku and Vardy. Just need a defender and midfielder for that retard Hazard.
Haha, same here! Half contemplated getting a new defender but fuck it, what’s the point? Really don’t want to log in and see the damage. Hazard and Kane are only a pair of shitehawks. I don’t have Hazard, but i feel your pain bud. Sickening season to say the least.
Hazard obviously didn’t fancy it tonight then.
Owww ffs, Hazard off. Can my season get any fucking worse. Fuck.
He scores when he waaaants…….Jamie Vardy ……….!!
Why do I bother to captain anyone else? Why?
Goal and assist are irrelevant, Hazard was my only differential. Ffs.
Sure, one of my main rivals capped Kun and vicd Vardy. 😉
Ha ha,somebody in my mini league transferred kun in last week,realised on Friday he wasn’t going to be fit so transferred him back out again for a hit !!