Fantasy football Trends From The Top – GW36
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. Gameweeks 34 and 35 were certainly game changers for our leaders and for those who follow this article week after week, you’ll know that many of the leaders (prior to GW 33) held top spots for many, many weeks.
For the first time this season, the game has significantly changed.
This week the only player to have a spot in the top ten for more than 2 weeks is our current leader Dimitris Gavles who has held a top position for ONLY 3 weeks.
ALL of our (ex)leaders…all of the players we have been watching and tracking for nearly the entire season, are now below the top ten ranking.
It is really no secret how these new contenders climbed to the top. Nine of the Top Ten used their Triple Captain Chip for GW 34 while the remaining leader is using his triple captain this week with Kane as his selection. Six of our leaders also deployed their Wildcard in GW 33 thus setting them up for strategic success.
With GW 37 showing more potential opportunities, it will be interesting to see if the leaders change once again. Until then, let’s look at what our new leaders are doing.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 35?
This week, 50% of top managers selected Aguero as their captain pick while another 20% selected Kane. The remaining three managers chose Sanchez, Firmino and Sturridge.
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 35?
Goalkeepers: 20% of the top 10 played either de Gea, Hart or Mignolet while the remaining managers selected Schmeichel, Darlow, Forster and Cech.
Defenders: For Gameweek 35, 15 defenders made the cut. Bellerin was the most popular as 8 of the 10 managers selected him. Bellerin was followed by Simpson (50%), Morgan (30%), Gabriel, Moreno, Alderweireld and Sakho (20% ownership). The remaining defenders were the following all with 10% ownership: Clichy, Fuchs, Rose, Williams, Azpilicueta, Huth, van Aanholt, and Otamendi.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 8 different picks. Sanchez was the most popular pick with 90% ownership. 70% of managers
selected Mahrez, while 60% selected Alli, and 50% Iwobi. Coutinho was selected by 40% followed by DeBruyne & Firmino with 30% ownership. And finally, Milner wrapped up the group with 10% ownership.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of only 5 picks among the top managers. 80% had Aguero while another 50% had Kane. Sturridge came in with an ownership rate of 40% while Defoe and Long each had 10% ownership.
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In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 35 were Bellerin, Simpson, Sanchez, Alli, Mahrez, Iwobi, Kane and Aguero as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
Other interesting facts:
* The average score for Gameweek 35 among the top 10 is currently 45 points which is 16 points above average for the week.
* Again, the longest reign of any of the leaders in the top ten is now only 3 weeks.
* England is dominating! 7 of the top ten are currently from England while the remaining leaders are from Sweden, Mongolia and Bulgaria.
* 60 points separates 1st from 10th. Our leader is currently at 2290 points.
* The average team value is £106.3.
Hope this was useful!
Best of luck in Gameweek 36!
@bekachan
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Thanks for reading Fantasy Football Trends From The Top – GW36 Fantasy Premier League 2015-16. This article was written by Rebekah H
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Good morning all and many thanks to Beka for another great rundown on the leaders. As suspected they’ve all changed now that the chips are coming out, a trend I guess we’ve seen in many a ML as those who waited patiently are now starting to see some parity restored.
Thank god!!!
Always interesting.
What have you learned about the chips this season?
And do you like them?
And what other chip would you like?
Double captain, both your captain and vc get there points doubled, instead of AOA that would be more interesting
Agreed on both of those points Snookie, also tweak the WC chip thing so you can play the WC the same week as an actual chip.
If they remove it I guess all would do the same and there would be no planning, it makes much more intresting with the tweak and people plan it for weeks and guess it’s fun, though lot of RMT’s to be solved at that time !
Nice idea.
How about a loan player chip?
Any player at any cost one week only. You field 12 players that week.
Can combine with other chips.
That one crossed my mind too James. Another element of planning added. Do it right and it’s another extra DGW body.
Something else I’d like to see is a mid-game transfer. They do it on the FiTeam game and it makes it that bit more interesting. So for example you have Sturridge and he plays Saturday and flops you can then replace him for say Lukaku on Sunday. Trouble there is he will invariably flop too! Takes a bit more planning again as you’d then begin the next week with your new player.
Basically anything that makes it more complicated for the casual player
I’d get rid of all the chips & wildcards!
I realise that would lead to a lot of people losing interest in the game but they just annoy me
Double Captain. Axe AOA
Yeah I actually had the same idea last week as Snookie for the double captain thing – it would be so cool!!
These were my thoughts :Also just thought of this – WHO WOULD LOVE A DOUBLE CAPTAIN CHIP So like you have two captains for one week. That would be amazing!! Things could get crazy and honestly it could skew the game to have too much of a focus on chips over average standard consistent gameweek points, but still, I sur would have loved that chip for this week haha!! Even if they did something like each captain gets 1.5 times their score so kinda like a triple captain rather than a quadruple captain that would still be super cool! oooh imagine having to choose between that triple captain and bench boost for a dgw like this wow! Or even if they made it that you could only have one of the two chips through the season – I can only imagine the headaches lol.
Many thanks Beka – good to see some normality returning to things – shame we only get to enjoy it for three weeks, but such is life!!
Thanks Beka. I see I’m still not in the top 10 😉
Its surely only a gameweek away until you do Kop
Unfortunately I’m not optimistic Photek
Is it worth having any Eve players coming up to this DGW
Silvers, I wouldn’t go buying any of them but if you’ve already got them you might as well try and hold onto them.
Kop if you look at there run in , if they get a new manager do you thk they will want to impress
I doubt they’ll sack Martinez before the season ends.
Somewhat agree with this.
Depends on the player.
Some have been terrible recently.
(Comment on kops post)
Silvers, maybe deulofeu for the dgw, if he starts on 36. Looked good against ManUtd, or at least made Samlling look bad. Anyway, if he gets a run in the squad he could be a sweet and cheap differential. Otherwise, avoid…