Trends From The Top A look to Gameweek 34
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. This is a particularly exciting edition of Trends as we are premiering for the first time on FF247! For those not familiar with this piece, we take a look at the top ten performing managers via fantasy.premierleague.com in an attempt to recognize distinct, successful trends which may help us moving forward to the next upcoming gameweek as we all look to personally climb and advance within our leagues. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at gameweek 33 results from our top ten fantasy leaders.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Gameweek 33?
It should serve as little shock that Sergio Aguero was given the armband from 9 of the top 10 managers. With 2 goals in gameweek 32, his 5 week drought without goals was over and it does in fact seem he is nearly back on top and form as he was able to clinch a goal against West Ham in GW33 thus providing his managers with 12 points. The remaining manager selected Murray (4 points).
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Gameweek 33?
Goalkeepers: For gameweek 33, the most popular goalie was Krul as he was selected by 50% of the top ten. Myhill received 30% followed by Heaton and Hart each with 10% ownership.
Defenders: Only 11 defenders made the list for our top players and when we look at defenders for Gameweek 33, we see one dominant player; Terry was selected by 90%. Terry was followed by Clyne at 50%, Wollscheid at 40%, Dawson, Ivanovic, Alderweireld, Baines, Fonte and Bertrand at 20% and finally Rose and Lescott with 10%.
Midfielders: When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 12 different players. Unlike past weeks, where we would see less variety, this weekend, diversification of midfielders came into play. Hazard was the most popular pick with an ownership rate of 90% followed by Silva at 80%, Eriksen at 70%, Boyd at 30%, Bolasie and Mane at 20% and Yaya Toure, Walters, Mahrez, Gibson, Fabregas, and Cork each with 10%.
Forwards: This week, only 4 forwards made the cut. 90% of our leaders had Kane (50.7% ownership) and Aguero (25.9% ownership), 40% Murray (5.2% ownership) and 10% Vardy (5.2% ownership).
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for Gameweek 33 were Krul, Terry, Clyne, Eriksen, Kane, Hazard, Silva, and Aguero as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
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Knowing that Gameweek 34 is a Double Gameweek for Chelsea, Hull, Liverpool and Leicester, how many DGW players were sitting on the bench and were there any trends?
Due to the fact that Chelsea* played in GW 33, this narrowed the pool down and as we know, Hazard had 90% ownership, Terry 90%, Ivanovic 20%, and Fabregas 10%. There were no Hull players to be found. In regards to Leicester, one top owner had Hamer on the bench. For Liverpool, we found Mignolet (10%), Skrtel (10%), and Moreno (10%).
While Liverpool, Leicester and Hull players were far and few between, we did see Sanchez at 40%, Ozil, van Aanholt and Naughton at 30% and finally, Foster and Dawson at 20%.
*4 out of the top 10 had Remy on the bench and didn’t play this week due to a muscle injury. He is still listed as having a 75% chance to play.
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What do we know about our #1 manager?
The current leader, Atletico Marchid**(Simon March) of Singapore had NOT deployed his wildcard until the end of gameweek 33 (yesterday). Yes, our top leader’s wildcard is currently active for gameweek 34! This is huge and with a current lead of 24 points, I definitely see this as a major advantage as we approach the final gameweeks. He has the upper hand and I do predict that he will come out victorious. Simon also has a rather impressive fantasy football track record. In 2011/2012 he finished 6436 and in 2012/2013 he finished 3,833. Simon has maintained the #1 position for 10 weeks and has been in the top 10 for 16 weeks.
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Other interesting facts:
The average score for Gameweek 33 among the top 10 was 59.9 points which is an impressive 21.9 points above the average of 38 for the week.
Singapore took the top spot! 50% of the managers are from England, 10% Algeria, 10% Australia, 10% Germany and 10% Pakistan.
Our manager in 11th (had previously held 8th place) is from Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands. Knowing absolutely nothing about this region, I came to discover that it has a very small population…2500 in change.
So there’s a reflective look at Gameweek 33.
Will knowing any of this information, impact or influence any fantasy football trades? Let us know in the comment section below and as always, best of luck in Gameweek 34!
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Rebekah, this is a fantastic and most interesting article. Many thanks for taking the time to construct this and sharing it with us. Welcome to FF247 and hopefully get to chat going forward. Thanks again!
Thanks, Cookie!
Morning all, I’d like extend a warm FF247 welcome to Beka and thank her for her debut article – Trends from the Top.
Beka is an experienced fantasy writer and player and some of you may recognise her work from an old fantasy site. I always found this article both interesting and informative and I’m delighted that Beka has decided to come over to FF247. Enjoy!
Hello FF247 and thank you all for such a great welcome! I have been writing Trends From the Top for 3 seasons now and am delighted to have the opportunity to share it with you on your site.
Welcome to the site Beka
This is a great insight into how those at the top are doing. Hopefully next season you’ll be writing about some of us 😉
Probably a better chance of Liverpool winning the title. :hippo:
I doubt it!
*Carling Cup
😉
Guys, lay off Liverpool yeah? That’s my Friday job :hippo:
Brilliant article, as informative as ever!
Advice on my injury crippled team?
I’m thinking Dawson and Sanchez > Skrtel and Sterling
Or Dawson and Silva > Skrtel and Hendo
Both options leave me with enough money to upgrade Remy to Giroud next week.
Advice?
Assuming Silva is fit I think I’d be doing option 1 purely because it means Sterling over Hendo but in the same breath I’d probably prefer Sanchez over Cazorla longer term but I appreciate that’s not an option money wise. Giroud next week is good planning and it still gives you 2 weeks to pick up a 3rd Arsenal player should you wish to.
cheers init
Many thanks, Rebekah, and welcome to FF247. Interesting stuff. Bit shocked that a manager in the top 10 doesn’t have Hazard!
Many thanks Beka! Welcome to the site and once again thanks for taking the time to put this together. If you ever get bored with writing about what top managers are doing let me know, following some of my moves this season would be a chance for you to write a comedy. 😉