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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Hey beka,
Thank you very much once again for collating this article. I can’t decide if this “new” top 10 are the real deal or if it just so happens they got luckier with their chips later
Bastards, the lot of them!
Ah no, fair play to anyone who’s in the running at this stage, top drawer stuff. Cheers Beka :thumbup:
Hi, taking hits for Kane and Alli didn’t pay off but never mind didn’t knock me down too much as I assume most had them. What do you think of Kane, Alli and Sakho to Carrol, Pedro and Cresswell? I think one of Kane or Kun have to move aside for a DGW. Am I just having a knee jerk reaction to last night or is it a feasible move? Thank you
I wouldn’t take a -8 here no. Just Carroll in for Kane / Aguero should do, then maybe take a -4 next week or even a -8 for lots of dgw’ers.
Hello friends, Want to know your views on
1. Deeney against AV and his role in DGW37.
2. Loftus Cheek
3. Darmian
cheers all
1. Worth a punt on anyone vs Villa. He’s still on pens I assume?
2. Game time issues. Especially now with Hazard having woken up.
3. DGW legend. Sold him last week!
1. Good call, should do well over the next few games.
2. Who knows, looks a good player but may not be a reliable starter.
3. Should be good for a cs against Norwich so yeah, good option i think.
Innit and NIN..thanks a lot for the replies. I guess Deeney is still on penalties as last one’s theonly one he’s missed this season. Do you know why he started in the later half as he seemed nailed for all of the matches. Also, Loftus looked a decent punt, week before ..Not sure about him now. Regarding Darmian, shpuld I hold him for the dgw as I intend to play my BB then??
BTW Darmian and Sakho were on my bench in DGW34.My score would’ve been 196, had I played BB then..haha..sad though
Yeah i’d defo keep Darmian for the dgw.
cheers NIN..Holding him then.
Is Sakho gone for good then?Or we need to wait for some final verdict?
There’s nothing official but he won’t play again this season. In fact he won’t play again for quite a while!!
kop..thanks mate..off he goes
Any advice? Trying to catch a 18 point gap, both my leader and I have TC left. I have 1.9 and 1 FT, thinking of Rashford to Carroll this week and I need to do it today as I’ll be short of 0.1 when his price increases. Strategy now is to get Carroll in for 36 then Tomkins and Kirchoff for Sakho and Delaney for 37.
My team:
Robles DDG
Fuchs Rose Sakho Bellers Delaney
Alli KDB Sanchez Firmino Iwobi
Rashford Sturridge Kun
His team:
Robles Migs
Simpson Gabriel Lovren Bellers Dann
Alli Townsend Sanchez Coutinho Mahrez
Long Sturridge Kun