Trends From The Top- What Are The Leaders Doing? A Look to Game-week 11
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. What’s great about ‘trends’ is the fact that they are trends… trends that evolve, dissipate, and adapt. It’s hard to believe that just a couple weeks ago 100% of the top managers had Aguero and now, yet understandably, 0% of the leaders have him on their team. And while it’s always possible to have a bad gameweek, 100% of all the leaders had Sanchez on their team. What other trends will we see this week? Will they help provide us with insight for GW 11? Let’s take a look.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Game-week 10?
This week, the top leaders were divided among 3 captains. 30% chose most unfortunately as they selected Sanchez (4 points), while another 30% decided to give Vardy the armband (10 points). The remaining 40% advantageously chose Kane which brought in 34 points. Despite 7 out of 10 of the top players having poor or average captain picks, many were able to remain near the summit.
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What are some interesting similarities among the top ten?
In researching this week’s leaders, it was interesting to see that fewer of the leaders were the folks we saw early on who were using and exhausting all their chips and wildcards. Two of the leaders have yet to utilize any of the above-mentioned game-play benefits and the average for our leaders is 1.3 when looking at wildcards, all out attack, triple captain or bench boost. Additionally, none of the current leaders have ever had a successful season if one were to define success as finishing in the top 5%.
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 10?
Goalkeepers
For this past gameweek 60% of the top managers selected Cech while 30% had Butland and 10% selected Hart.
Defenders
This week we saw 15 defenders make the cut for top managers. Interestingly enough, Kolarov (50%) was once again the only defender with an ownership rate of 50% or higher. Alderweireld and Bellerin came in at 40% while Azpilicueta was the next most popular pick with 30% ownership followed by Clyne, Smalling, Moreno and Cedric with 20% and Zouma, Jenkinson, Walker, Cresswell, Koscielny, Darmian, and Williams each with 10%.
Midfielders
When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 12 different picks with several getting only 10% of the vote such as Cabaye, Bolasie, Ritchie, Mane and Wijnaldum. Sanchez was the most popular pick with 100% ownership followed by Mahrez at 80%, Payet at 70%, De Bruyne with 40%, Ayew with 30%, and Yaya Toure and Ozil each with 20%.
Forwards
This week, the front line consisted of 10 picks among the top managers which again seems to indicate that such spots are not yet solidified. Vardy came in with 80% while Kane and Bony were the next popular picks as they each received 40%. Ighalo was selected by 30% of the top managers with Costa and Bernahino receiving 20% and Martial, Ayoze, Pelle and Bojan each receiving 10% a piece.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 10 were not many. They were Cech, Kolarov, Sanchez, Mahrez, Payet, and Vardy as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
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Other interesting facts…
– The average score for Gameweek 10 among the top 10 was 55.9 points which was only 13.9 points above average for the week. Only 2 weeks ago, the average for our top leaders was 68.5 points above the average!
– England once again dominated the leader board as 50% of the top 10 were from there. The remaining three countries were Australia (currently in 1st), Scotland, Ireland, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.
– The average team value was £103.2m with £104m being the highest team value and £102.1m being the lowest value.
– 38 points separates 1st place from 10th.
Best of luck in Game-week 11
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Great stuff as always, thanks Rebekah. Good to see most of my team represented by the top 10 but alas, still a long way to climb!
Any transfer suggestion guys?
Would get a soton or everton defender in place of Richards, daniel or skrtel don’t see any cs potential in your defense except bellerin for you this gw
Snookie, thinking of Richards > Cedric. Sounds good?
Dont wanna get those expensive Van Djik or Bertie.
Yup but Cedric has less potenial, I would be getting Van Dijk myself for Cresswell for his attacking potential would suggest you of getting rid of Skrtel for Dijk or even Bertrand. Cedric will get you CS only but if you want Skrtel and tight on budget than go for Cedric
Afternoon the B possibly Skrtel to Colman or Van Dij or Martial to Luk.
Silvers, thats the exact confusion I have.
Should i upgrade my attack or my defense with 1FT. By the look of it I think defense looks a priority.
Nice article Rebekah, thank you.
Two consecutive 5-1 defeats for Bournemouth, is that significant enough to make it a trend?
If so, we just need to bring in their oponnents’ forwards!
Cheers
Very interesting read..many thanks DC
Hey guys
Please rmt
Myhill McCarthy
Kolarov darmian, Monreal, Davies, targett
Kdb, Sanchez, payet, mahrez, Westwood
Costa, pelle, vardy
1ft with 1.6m itb
I was thinking about taking a hit and getting rid of darmian and Westwood for Barkley and walker. Is that a good move? Worth a hit? It seems darmian isn’t a guaranteed starter and he gets quite a lot of yellow cards also Everton have good fixtures coming up
I like the Westwood-»Barkley move but who would you be benching from that front 8? That will give you enourmous headaches which I’d avoid. Also you only have 2 nailed on defenders, so start there perhaps and yes with Darmian. For Coleman maybe? I don’t think Spurs coverage is essencial but if you fancy them, maybe Toby is the best value for money pick there. Or Rose if he gets the nod over Davies on a consistant basis.
Cheers
Hey DMC, thanks for the response.
Yeah I guess I would probably bench Costa this week? But this really isn’t a permanent move, I was planning on keeping this until Aguero returns then I will swap Barkley and Costa for Aguero and a 4.5 Mid. I just thought walker was the best option at 5M for a defender, but I’m open to suggestions? So you think this move is worth a hit? I don’t think I have enough for Coleman unless I get rid of Kolarov instead of Damian, but Kolarov has good fixtures so I would prefer to keep him for now.
Well niloh, I know chelsea are horrible at the moment but for an 11m player you either play him or sell him, imo. Plus, Costa is at home and while I wouldn’t be surprised if Klopp’s psychological advantage over Mourinho (he trashed Mourinhos’ Madrid a few years back) leads Liverpool to victory next week I’d still fancy him to score. So, no hit for me there. Just sell Darmian for walker or someone from Southampton. Also bear in mind that Aguero’s reportedly return date is 21Nov, which is in GW13.