Fantasy football Trends From The Top – GW32
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. What are the leaders doing and what will they being doing? There are interesting weeks ahead and it will be interesting to see what are leaders are up to. Are they prepping their teams for DGW33 and do they have a wildcard in their back pocket?
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 32?
This week, 40% of top managers selected Aguero as their captain pick while another 40% selected Payet. One manager selected Arnautovic while the other manager selected a defender and got very lucky with Bellerin as their captain choice.
With the upcoming gameweek in which Everton and Crystal Palace play two matches, were there any signs/indications that our leaders were stocking up on strategic players?
In trying to find trends and gameplay reflective of the upcoming DGW, I couldn’t find anything. And actually, with the exception of Hennessey, no top player possessed any Everton or Crystal Palace players in their GW 32 squad. Having said this, our #1 leader had Coleman on the bench while leaders #5 and #10 had Hennessey on their sidelines. No players had Lukaku.
Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 32?
Goalkeepers: 30% of the top 10 played Courtois while 20% selected Gomes. The remaining managers played de Gea, Foster, Forster, Ospina and Hennessey.
Defenders: For Gameweek 32, only 14 defenders made the cut. Bellerin was the most popular as 8 of the 10 managers selected him. Bellerin was followed by Fuchs, Alderweireld and Huth (40% ownership), and Williams (30%). The remaining defenders were the following all with 10% ownership: Walker, Azpilicueta, Smalling, Otamendi, Clyne, Kolarov, Koscielny, Cresswell and Morgan.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 9 different picks with several getting only 10% of the vote such as Wijnaldum, Coutinho and Silva. 100% of managers selected Mahrez, while 70% selected Payet, 60% Alli, and 50% Ozil and Sigurdsson. Arnautovic wrapped up the group with 40% ownership.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of only 5 picks among the top managers. 100% had Kane while another 90% had Aguero. Vardy was another popular pick with 60% ownership and Rondon and Berahino each came in with an ownership rate of 10%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 32 were Bellerin, Mahrez, Payet, Alli , Ozil, Sigurdsson, Kane, Aguero and Vardy as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
How many wildcards are available amongst the top ten?
All but 4 players have deployed their 2nd wildcard for the season. Players in positions 2, 5, 9 and 10 have their wildcards available.
Other interesting facts:
* The average score for Gameweek 32 among the top 10 was 74.8 points which is an impressive 27.8 points above average for the week.
* Players in the 4th and 5th positions have been in the top ten for over 17 weeks! Our #9 leader is new to the group and his impressive 90 points for GW 32 was most advantageous!
* Sweden represented 30% of the leaders (#6, #8 and #10) while England had 20% (#1 and #7). The following countries represented are: Ireland (#2) Bosnia-Herzegovina (#3), Australia (#4), Canada (#5) and India (#9).
Hope this was useful!
Best of luck in Gameweek 33!
@bekachan
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Huge thanks to Beka, your work and time is much appreciated as always.
Beka,
Thanks for the time taking in drawing all this information together. Great dedication to your art.
One guy captained Bellerin? You just know that if us mere mortals did that it would be four points maximum!
Thank you. This is my favorite writeup.
Current WC team guys.. Mostly happy apart from Steven Taylor obviously, he was an ‘enabler’ being so cheap. Question is do I change DDG > Schmeichel and Taylor > Phil Jones. Would leave me 0 itb and I’ve just read Jones completed 76 mins for U21s last night. I could bench him for GW33, do we assume he’ll be back in the team & starting by GW34? Bit of a gamble but not content with Taylor in there! As a bonus gives me a keeper for GW35 too.. Any other comments muchly appreciated
* completed 76 mins but lacked fitness and had a bad game by all accounts 😐
Peetza, Jones would be a massive gamble – in all honesty I can’t see him dislodging Smalling or Blind at the back.
Fair enough, Thanks Cookie! Back to the drawing board – good job we get a week to work at this it’s a nightmare this year
Peetza, I get your take about Jones and S. Taylor, but April’s fool has gone now so it’s not funny anymore
Serioulsy, though, attack looks good, defence is poor, but you already know that. Maybe DDG-»Darlow (or migs) and upgrade Taylor.
Haha cheers DMC. So hard to fit Aguero Sanchez Kane & De Bruyne but I just don’t want to get rid of any
I’ll keep tinkering and explore other keepers, thanks!
hey thanks for the article. I really cant decide which defence is better for BB on 34, please help.
1)
DDG Robles
Bellerin, Moreno (reid or any other 4.8m defender), Gabriel, Simpson, Sakho
2)
Darlow, Robles
Bellerin, Smalling, Gabriel, Simpson, Sakho
Niloh, no.2 for me as you have no keeper worries for GW35 (well you do as you have Darlow, but at least he plays) and you don’t need to double up on the creaky Liverpool defence.
+1
Anyone up for the IPL fantasy? Btw last year it was good idk why they changed that format, this sucks :/
http://fantasy.iplt20.com/IPL/en/1/clienthome.do
Had a look this morning as did Kop – not sure I can be bothered planning transfers so soon after the World Cup to be honest. I have made a team, but serious lack of interest and thought!!
Sounds a bit like my FPL team when I read that back
Lol
I hope the schedule feature is there, it was used there last season and really helps as games come thick andfast but haven’t explored the site much and haven’t made a team too!
Btw do you like/support any particular team?
I am excited because of Gujarat lions team as I live in Gujarat and finally it gets a team,also players are decent as well and obviously RCB <3
Yeah I support Essex
I meant among IPL teams -_-
Nah wouldn’t know one from the other Snookie – I heard Mumbai is a fun place so I said I was a Mumbai fan on the fantasy site. Actually, I support anyone who plays against Pieterson.
Wow why so much hate for Peiterson? One of the best batsman I have seen play, and has fans probably everywhere except England I think 😛
Simple reason Snookie – he’s an egotistical twat who betrayed his own captain and dressing room. Repeatedly. Talented as anyone in the world, but he should be playing an individual sport like golf.
Yeah had heard about incidents about him sending tips to Smith-SA captain, I think.
Exactly – you don’t do that mate.