Trends From The Top A look to Gameweek 36
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. This week’s publication is somewhat premature as Arsenal and Hull have yet to play, but after looking at the top 10 and their respective standings, it would be surprising if major upheavals were to ensue. Our leader, Simon March of Atletico Marchid** has remained in the number one position for 12 weeks and currently has a 27 point advantage over his closest competitor. While his claim to the title is not yet confirmed as it is with Chelsea, Simon has played a cool, calm and strategic game. Let’s take a look to see what both he and the other nine top players are up to as well as look to the final few gameweeks.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 35?
For gameweek 35, three different players were given the armband. Aguero (16 points) was the most popular selection with 50% followed by Hazard (12 points) at 40% and Benteke (26 points) at 10%.
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 35?
Goalkeepers: For this past gameweek 30% of managers had either Schmeichel (7 points) or Mignolet (2 points). 20% had Pantilimon (2 points) and 10% selected Hart (9 points). Finally, one lucky soul decided a match against Manchester United was no obstacle and selected Myhill thus bringing in 17 points!
Defenders: This week we saw 12 defenders make the cut for top managers. Terry was the most popular pick as he was selected by 90% of managers while Ivanovic came in at 60%. Skrtel had 50% ownership while Morgan was selected by 40%. Bertrand had 20% while Clyne, Alderweireld, Huth, van Aanholt, Fonte, Koscielny, and Wollscheid were each selected by one manager.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 9 different picks. Hazard had 100% ownership while Sterling was the next most popular pick with 80% ownership. Silva had 70% and Coutinho had 40%, Henderson and Fabregas were at 30% with Ozil and Sanchez at 20% and Ramsey at 10%. While it appears that only 1 Arsenal defender made the team for gameweek 35, you can see that Arsenal midfielders are starting to creep in, most likely for the upcoming double gameweek in 37.
Forwards: This week, the front line consisted of only 5 picks among the top managers. Aguero had 90% ownership followed by Kane at 70%, Vardy at 50%, Giroud at 30% and Benteke wrapping up the group at 20%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 35 were Terry, Ivanovic, Skrtel, Hazard, Sterling, Silva, Kane, Vardy and Aguero as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
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Other interesting facts:
The average score for Gameweek 35 among the top 10 was 60.2 points which was 29.2 points above average of 31 by the end of Sunday’s matches.
Our top manager is from Singapore and has been in the top 10 for 18 weeks.
England was well represented with 40% ownership followed by Poland, N. Ireland, Ireland, Algeria, Pakistan and Singapore each with 10%.
If looking at GW 37 and the fact that it is a DGW for both Arsenal and Sunderland, Pantilimon and van Aanholt seem to currently be the most popular picks on the Sunderland side while Koscielny, Sanchez, Ramsey, Ozil and Giroud representing Arsenal.
Best of luck in gameweek 36!
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Some advice, please, on a different problem.
My current team for gw36 is:
Davis
Terry, Ivanovic, Wollscheid
Hazard, Henderson, Silva(V), Cambiasso
Aguero(C), Benteke, Kane
with subs=Pantilmon and
Sterling, Van Aanholt, Skrtel (in this order).
1FT and 1.1 mill.
I’m worried about (1) my keeper and (2) keeper cover for gw38. The So’ton defense has gone in the tank, and doesn’t finish the season well (Leicester away, Villa at home, and Citeh away). (I’ll probably use Pants for dgw37). The best alternative looked to be Guzan, until Sherwood threw a snit. Now I’m not sure whether Given stays. Schmeichel and Howard look like the best 36/38 coverage, but I feel a bit silly messing with keepers this late in the season.
I could bite the bullet, stick with Davis, and get a higher scoring defender e.g. Wallace for Wollscheid, or Jagielka for Skrtel, both of the former with good finishing sequences.
And I’d contemplate a -4 if the answer is a keeper and a defender.
But none of these options makes me very confident. Are there other possibilities?
I lead my league (no Arsenal players) by a razor-thin 3 points (thanks, David Silva). Thus, I have no particular leader/trailer concerns. My opponent has 2FT, 0.5 mill, and a team worth 5 mill less, but the usual 3 Pool players he can change.
I’d stop worrying about your keeper at this stage and concentrate on getting some Arsenal in your team.You could always get Ospina though If it bothers you that much !! I’d downgrade Ivan to a cheapie (or Bellerin if it leaves enough cash and you fancy a gamble) and get Giroud and an arsenal mid in there for Kane and Sterling over the next couple of weeks.
Brookyboy,
I appreciate the advice, but it is a moral rule of my (Spurs) league that we can’t use Arsenal players. Otherwise, I have had Ospina a long time ago, and I’d cheerfully join in the dump-Liverpool mids for Arsenal mids (plus Giroud) several weeks ago.
But sigh, I have to worry about Sunderland dgweekers (as above), and what the hell to do about no Ospina.
Thanks.
Good afternoon guys, how’s it going? Thinking about bringing in Wasilewski for either Bertrand or Skrtel to raise funds for Henderson to Ramsey. Which defender would you sell? Was thinking of selling Bertrand since I already have Davis in goal, does that make sense? Any thoughts or other ideas would be appreciated!
Davis Mannone
Terry Bertrand Skrtel PvA Trippier
Silva Hazard Sanchez Henderson Ki Sung-Yueng
Aguero Kane Giroud
2 FT and .1 ITB
Bertrand to wasilewski makes perfect sense especially as you have Davis Red.
Thanks Brooky, much appreciated mate. Just wanted another set of eyes on it before I do something stupid that I’ll regret! lol. Now to see if Rambo will be OK for Swansea…
Ramsey has been flagged, yellow.
RMT!
0.6 in the bank and 2FT.
Any transfer suggestions for the next couple of weeks.
My team
KP – Sterling to Ramsey/Cazorla/Ozil (pick the one you prefer!) and save the other FT?
Hi KP, Sterling to Ramsey seems the obvious one. You’re a fair way off getting Giroud in and you’d have to cull the defence quite a bit to do so or lose Aguero / Hazard which I guess you won’t want to! Maybe Benteke is a more realistic target but it’d have to be for Kane along with losing Azpi and Moreno for cheapies.
How did everyone get on this week? Sanchez and Myhill saved me big time.
Managed to get to 80 in the end.
How did you all do?
Not so good here, 54.
Well done, keep it up.
Need a good differential this week.
Any 1?