GW 19 Team Selection and Transfers

Please welcome statistics on team selection and transfer activity for GW 19.

TRANSFERS AND TEAM VALUE

	Random Sample	Top 10K
Number of Managers	20,000	10,000
Average Transfers Made	0.56	1.19
Point Hits Taken	10.1%	21.1%
Average Points Deducted (Incl. No Hits)	0.59	0.99
Wildcards Played	0.5%	0.7%
Wildcard Status
– played	47.0%	82.2%
– available	53.0%	17.8%
– active	0.0%	0.0%
Average Team Value	₤100.2m	₤106.6m
Average Money in the Bank	₤0.8m	₤0.9m

TRANSFERS MADE

Number	Random Sample	Top 10K
0	67.9%	22.7%
1	14.4%	40.7%
2	12.9%	30.4%
3	3.0%	4.9%
4 and more	1.3%	0.7%
Wildcard	0.5%	0.7%

POINT HITS TAKEN

Point Hit	Random Sample	Top 10K
0 points	89.9%	79.0%
4 points	7.4%	18.1%
8 points	1.8%	2.5%
12 points	0.5%	0.4%
16 points and more	0.4%	0.1%

TRANSFERS IN

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Cabaye	4.2%		1	Walcott	16.1%
2	Walcott	4.1%		2	Cabaye	8.1%
3	Negredo	3.0%		3	Negredo	6.7%
4	Lallana	2.8%		4	Silva	6.4%
5	Rooney	1.9%		5	Zabaleta	5.0%
287 different players bought				234 different players bought

TRANSFERS OUT

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Ramsey	15.4%		1	Ramsey	41.3%
2	Lukaku	3.5%		2	Lukaku	8.5%
3	Howard	2.7%		3	Özil	6.5%
4	Begovic	1.8%		4	Howard	5.3%
5	Giroud	1.7%		5	Begovic	2.9%
365 different players sold				295 different players sold

FORMATIONS

Formation	Random Sample	Top 10K
‘3-4-3’	43.7%	73.3%
‘3-5-2’	7.2%	3.4%
‘4-3-3’	16.0%	18.5%
‘4-4-2’	29.6%	3.6%
‘4-5-1’	1.0%	0.1%
‘5-2-3’	0.8%	0.7%
‘5-3-2’	1.4%	0.4%
‘5-4-1’	0.4%	0.0%

CAPTAINCY

• With rotation issues for a lot of popular captain picks, I think I should also present stats for vice-captains this week. Most popular vice-captains in the top 10,000 FPL teams: Suárez 31.5%, Rooney 20.2%, Yaya Touré 12.3%, Negredo 9.2%, Lukaku 6.1%, Silva 4.2%, Hazard 3.0%, Walcott 2.7%, Özil 2.6%, Giroud 1.2%, Adebayor 0.8%.

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Suárez	24.8%		1	Rooney	37.1%
2	Rooney	12.5%		2	Suárez	28.4%
3	van Persie	10.3%		3	Negredo	18.5%
4	Negredo	7.5%		4	Yaya Touré	6.9%
5	Yaya Touré	6.6%		5	Silva	4.2%
223 different captain choices				34 different captain choices

STARTING GOALKEEPERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Mignolet	30.9%		1	Mignolet	30.6%
2	De Gea	7.7%		2	Szczesny	10.0%
3	Cech	7.6%		3	Krul	8.7%
4	Szczesny	7.5%		4	Mannone	8.6%
5	Hart	5.4%		5	Marshall	8.1%
58 different goalkeepers				37 different goalkeepers

STARTING DEFENDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Coleman	39.5%		1	Coleman	80.0%
2	Mertesacker	23.0%		2	Mertesacker	40.5%
3	Jagielka	22.8%		3	Zabaleta	23.4%
4	Zabaleta	20.6%		4	Terry	21.5%
5	Ivanovic	18.5%		5	Jagielka	19.8%
185 different defenders				108 different defenders

STARTING MIDFIELDERS

• Some other popular picks in the top 10K: (6)Walcott 24.0%, (7)Lallana 22.1%, (8)Silva 19.8%, (9)Ramsey 18.1%, (10)Januzaj 17.7%

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Yaya Touré	43.1%		1	Yaya Touré	71.3%
2	Ramsey	33.3%		2	Hazard	52.9%
3	Hazard	26.2%		3	Özil	31.3%
4	Barkley	25.8%		4	Barkley	30.2%
5	Özil	24.3%		5	Cabaye	29.9%
225 different midfielders				110 different midfielders

STARTING FORWARDS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Suárez	49.5%		1	Suárez	99.5%
2	Lukaku	29.3%		2	Rooney	70.4%
3	Rooney	24.5%		3	Lukaku	41.8%
4	Giroud	23.1%		4	Negredo	39.4%
5	Negredo	17.2%		5	Remy	11.1%
101 different forwards				40 different forwards

BENCHED PLAYERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Ramsey	12.4%		1	Ramsey	33.1%
2	Whittaker	11.2%		2	Gabbidon	17.6%
3	Kelvin Davis	10.3%		3	Whittaker	14.6%
4	Boruc	9.5%		4	Kelvin Davis	14.1%
5	Baker	8.8%		5	Baker	12.1%
586 different players on the bench				430 different players on the bench

OWNERSHIP AND CAPTAINCY DISTRIBUTION FOR MOST CAPTAINED PLAYERS

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About This Post

In this post, I take a look at 2 samples: randomly selected 20,000 FPL teams and the top 10,000 FPL teams. Because of the law of large numbers, we can make inferences about the overall FPL league based on the statistics for the random sample. Interval estimates for most statistics for the whole FPL game are also available. If you’re familiar with the concept of confidence intervals, you can point at a specific number characterising the random sample to see 99% confidence intervals for the respective number characterising all the 3 million FPL managers.

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