Trends From The Top Game-week 12
Welcome to this week’s edition of Trends From the Top. For this week’s publication, I join your from the lovely city of Sofia, Bulgaria where games air 7 hours later than my standard NYC match times! (Well it’s actually the same time although I am in a different time zone). It was certainly an interesting weekend as Chelsea took on its 7th loss of the season and chatter continues to focus on topics such as potential relegation, firings and signings. It is important to see how this has effected or impacted the league leaders if at all and to see what insights and trends these fantasy football gurus have in regards to such happenings. Let’s dive in a bit to take a closer look at our top 10.
Who was the most captained player by the top ten for Game-week 12?
This week, 40% of the top ten managers selected Vardy as captain (18 points), 30% Bony (2 points), 20% Ozil (16 points) and 10% Sanchez (10%). What is interesting here is the fact that 3 of the top 10 selected Bony, yet he is only owned by 6% of fantasy managers.
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Who were the most popular players chosen by the top ten for Game-week 12?
Goalkeepers:
For this past gameweek 40% of the top managers selected Hart while 30% had Cech, 20% had Butland and 10% played de Gea.
Defenders:
This week we saw 16 defenders make the cut for top managers. Interestingly enough, Kolarov (50%) was the only defender with an ownership rate of 50% or higher. Smalling came in at 40% while Kompany, Clyne and Koscielny were the next most popular picks with 20% ownership followed by Moreno, van Dijk, Stones, Creswell, Azpilicueta, Dawson, Dann, Sagna, Zouma, Bertrand, and Monreal each with 10%.
Midfielders:
When you look at midfielders, the top 10 managers had 13 different picks with several getting only 10% of the vote such as Tadic, Mata and Couthino. Mahrez was the most popular pick with 100% ownership followed by Ozil at 60%, Sanchez at 50%, Payet at 40%, Yaya Toure, De Bruyne and Ayew each with 30%, and finally Mane, Wijnaldum and Barkley each with 20%.
Forwards:
This week, the front line consisted of 8 picks among the top managers which again seems to indicate that such spots are not yet solidified and/or ever evolving or changing as needed. Vardy came in with 90% while Lukaku was the next popular pick as he received 60%. Martial was selected by 40% of the top managers with Bony and Pelle receiving 30%, Kane and Ighalo receiving 20% and Gomis coming in at 10%.
In summation, the Must-Haves for top managers for game-week 12 were not many. They were Kolarov, Mahrez, Vardy, Sanchez, Lukaku and Ozil as they all had an ownership rate of 50% or higher.
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What are some other interesting findings regarding our top leaders?
– 4 of the top players are new to the top 10.
– Our leader received only 40 points for GW 12 (5 points below the average) and has deployed ALL chips including his wildcard.
– Our leader started this season in 55,554th place and has held the top spot for the past 3 game-weeks.
– Our current leader finished 706,351 for the 2014/2015 season.
– Struthious D, currently in second place, has held one of the top 2 positions for the past 5 game-weeks and has a better opportunity to maintain such lead when compared to our #1 leader as he has only utilized his bench boost chip.
– Our 2nd top leader has played fantasy football for the past 9 seasons and his best finish was 74,308.
– Our 2nd top leader achieved only 36 game points for game-week 12 which was 9 points below the average of 45.
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Other interesting facts:
– The average score for game-week 12 among the top 10 was 57.7 points which is a meager 12.7 points above average for the week.
– England maintains the lead for having the most players in the top 10 but barely. This week 30% of our leaders were from England followed by Australia at 20%, Ireland at 20%, and Scotland, South Africa and Canada each coming in with 10%.
– The average team value was £104m with £107.5m being the highest team value and £103.1m being the lowest value.
– 24 points separates 1st place from 10th.
Best of luck in Gameweek 13!
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Payet>>> Lanzini for me..any views? Would free a lot of cash for aguero/ any damn player.
Spurs and United in next 3.
Ozil or Mane
Ozil
Kun or not to Kun for GW13?
Do it
B – are you bringing him in?
After Liverpool
Too early mate.. I would wait a week or 2..
I know it’s early but unsure what to do with payet. And looking to get kun in as well.
Do I make a transfer for payet or wait?
1ft 2.4 in the bank.
Payet out for a long time.
There are going to be millions of similar questions like this. So here it goes:
1. Wait till the international break is over.
2. Downgrade Payet to a player as much so that you can upgrade Aguero after 1 GW (Possibly a Pelle replacement)
3. If you dont want Aguero, get Ozil in his place, or Hazard. Or even Sterling.
Cheers b for the advice. Might wait. Hate internationals nothing but problems
People really need to wait. Look what happened last international break
Theres not rush at the moment, but Payet >> Delafeou is a good way to free funds.
Already have lukaku but delafeou could be good cheers ant
Delafeau has looked quality still unfit though
While we are all planning ahead don’t forget to factor in Vardy. I’d say he’s highly likely to get a ban. Looking at previous cases that’s likely to be 2 games minimum as well.
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I can’t believe I don’t have him. Never been keen on double Leicester. Prob why I’m not doing very well this year
Yeah exactly. Have been very stubborn and thought it won’t continue. Fixtures turn bad now so a bit pointless now. He will prob be let off now knowing my luck
What’s this possible Vardy ban about, Initt? Can’t find anything on the web about it…
not sure either Sanchez.
Yeah, that
Hi mate, he gave a V sign to the linesman. Check our twitter feed on the right hand side on here if you are on desktop view. (Sorry, no idea where that is on mobile view!) Or just check out twitter and search ‘Vardy ban’.
Jeez, why would he do that/what the hell was he thinking? Hope he gets let off!!!
Well as an owner of Bony and Payet I do too but not confident. I feel a few hits coming on in GW13!
The Walcott and Wilshere ones that they were banned for were directed at the fans, not sure that matters though. Probably explains why it went under the radar as fans complained immediately in those instances. Guess there will be the usual checking of ref’s reports etc in this one. Unfortunately I can’t see any reason why they won’t charge him now it’s been highlighted.
Yup, the usual -4pt hit for me then (unless others get injured as well during the IB). And I thought I’d finally sorted my team (especially defense) with a slew of -4pt hits!! The Payet one came out of nowhere — 3 months as well! Was waiting to ship Bonehead out so don’t mind doing that at all! Good riddance!!
Me too,can’t see anything about Vardy and a ban.Surely it would be out by now if there was any substance to it??
How has this not been more flagged up? Surely a ban
Some of us had the foresight to sell him weeks ago, what can I say? Some of us are just weeks ahead of people.
@aguerosergiokun: Giving it my all on recovery work. There’s still more to go but getting better by the day! https://t.co/b62rdBgc7i
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Kun in, Kun out – shake it all about let’s all do the hokey cokey and a -8 hit cus thats what’s it all about
I’ve stared at it for a while still don’t see the hidden image.
Haha, yeah it does look like one of them! That’s a blast from the past.
Look harder mito, the message is clear to see
Thoughts on Lingard? Thinking about Payer to him or someone under 5.7m?
I can’t see him keeping his place. Will mean keeping Young and Depay out. Yeah I know neither are playing great but that’s why he’s playing
What about Dele Alli from Spurs? He’s established, cheap (not for long, and has had some superb games?
Just FYI: he’s on 4 yellows. If he’s just bench fodder than it may not matter but he’ll have a weekend off some time soon!