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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Wow. Chelsea defense is bad.
And Hazard is toast to me. Might as well bring in the injured Sanchez back.
Could have worked but Chelsea still look to have a lot of problems and Hazards form and attitude seem to be one of them.
Hazard out for Silva it Sanchez?
FFS Well Hazard was a great signing wasn’t he. What a waste of a transfer. I’m tempted to get Ramsey for him even though they’re playing City next. Either him or Coutinho. What’s the thinking on this? Cheers guys.
I’d go Couthino if fit mate with Liverpool’s fixtures they should get a good few goals if they play well and I imagine him to be amongst them.
Cheers Matt. Yeah fixtures look good alright.Ramsey in good form too though.
Either are good shouts or Silva or Sanchez
If Hazard is fit, Ill probably keep him. Cant see a worthwhile replacement for now. Want to take a chance on Mata for some reason.
He came off injured though.
Looking forward to post match comments from Jose. Vardy fouled Hazard and went on to score. Lol.
How serious was that injury though. If Vardy had the exact same one I bet he would have went on. Hazard has a serious attitude problem.
Really annoyed by hazardous injury, might wait and see the extent of that injury though.
Two points off from average top 1k, Hazard would have at least help me top that fucking one. I mean seriously. Bad luck.
“Whatever can go wrong, Will go wrong. ”
At least we did not bench Vardy like Pancho did. Smartass.
In hindsight I should have just kept Wijnaldum, lol. Hazard will go sooner or later, really don’t like his attitude. The whole Chelski team are acting up like a bunch of overpaid pussies.
Yeah I know B. I never learn my lesson. The only up side is that I woulda benched Deulofeu for him and so it’s just a 2 point loss. I more chuffed about putting Sagna in for Bellerin last minute :/
Booking for Vardy puts him on 4 yellows !!
Mahrez………what a player !!!
It’s the Mahrez show again. Not that it matters with about 70 per cent of people owning him!
Oh it matters. Making my night!!!
Tell this to the 30% that don’t have him, and also to those who benched him.
People benched him, after last week??
Yep. init benched him i think :shiftyeyes:
Since the beginning of the game, I’m equal or better off compared to everyone in my league.
Delighted!
Thank fuck I never benched Mahrez this week!!
#neverbenchmahrez
why do i captain anyone else?????