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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Thanks for the article Rebekah,
Interesting read indeed.
Hey guys,
Does anyone know anything about Simpson (Leicester defender), played the last two and a half games only 3.9m.
Does anyone know if he will be starting in future?
Thanks
Hi FT, it’s a strange one. Basically de Laet played the first 7 games at RB and then after the Arsenal game Simpson just came in and has stayed there. They conceded 5 to Arsenal and I can’t remember if he was particularly at fault but that’s the only reason I can think of as I haven’t seen any injury reported.
Thanks init,
Worth keeping an eye on then…. Maybe when Aguero is fit to rise some funds or to finally get rid of Oxford!
Thanks again.
Rate my team!
5.0 in the bank and 2 Free Transfers
I’m thinking of getting bony/kane in for sakho. Also i need to get rid of davies, since it looks like he has lost his place.
Any suggestions?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.
KP Sakho to Luk or Bony Davies to Coleman or Van Dij. Spurs have some tough fixtures after this GW.
Sakho > Lukaku
Davies > SOTON defender
Roberto Martinez expects to be without captain Phil Jagielka for “eight to nine weeks” after the central defender picked up a knee injury during Everton’s defeat to Arsenal.
This should surely kill Everton’s clean sheet prospects.
With Jags ruled out for at least two months, is it worth investing in the Everton defense?
Jags’ absence should surely affect Everton’s defensive abilities? And I am not sure how i should rate the defense of Everton, has conceded 2 goals each to WB and Watford this season already, the two teams that on paper have a poor attack.
Likely candidates:
Galloway: 4.5M but Baines should be back in 2 weeks I think.
Mori: The 5.5M replacement of Jags, but dont see why anyone would pick him up as Stones is priced similarly.
Coleman: Almost 6M, a bit too expensive.
Thoughts?
People with FT and looking for defensive upgrades would probably weigh the options between SOTON and Everton.
B,
I’m not going to bother with Everton defence after with Jags injury. I know there fixtures are favourable but like you’ve already stated above the only one worth a pop is Coleman and he’s too expensive for me. I think they will score and win games but not with clean sheets.
I was reading something this morning where the fans were slating Tim Howard, who, according to them has been dreadful these last few games and they’d happily retire him to MLS. So with that concern, no Jags, Baines still 2/3 weeks away, I’m less tempted than I was.
Hey guys,
Could you possibly take a look at my team?
DDG (McCarthy)
van Dijk Souaré Evans (Martin & Oxford)
Mahrez De Bruyne Payet Sánchez (Westwood)
Vardy Bony Pellè
1 FT and 5.9m.
I’m thinking Kolarov in for Martin. Really want to bring Barkley in but just don’t know who I could drop….
I could do Westwood – Barkley but then who do I bench?
A move I am considering!
Do you have the AOA chip still?
That’s my option with the who to bench dilemma
Martin > Kola seems like a decent transfer. Better one would be to replace Oxford. Your team does not have any issues yet, and this is where you can easily use your FT to bring in a bombing player and eliminate dead wood.
Someone from ManUtd could also be a decent shout, rate their defense more than City’s. Can see at least 3 to 4 clean sheets for them in the next 6.
full time you could do Westwood to Barkley & rotate Bar & Mah until Kun comes back.
Thanks guys,
AOA could be a possibility Ripcurl, thanks. Bring in Barkley for Westwood the only problem with that is once Aguero is fit I would be chasing funds….
B, already have DDG not sure on doubling up at the back. Getting rid of Oxford is a good shout though.
Still not sure boys….