Please welcome to the statistics on team selection and transfer activity for GW 35. As usual, see this post for highlights and graphs. FULL STATS are available in THIS GOOGLE SPREADSHEET. A lot of transfers and point hits in the top 10K, Yaya Toure owners exodus, Aguero, Eriksen and Mata bandwagons, and much more.
TRANSFERS AND TEAM VALUE
|
Random Sample |
Top 10K |
| Number of Managers |
20,000 |
10,000 |
| Average Transfers Made |
0.53 |
1.71 |
| Point Hits Taken |
12.9% |
54.3% |
| Average Points Deducted (Incl. No Hits) |
0.84 |
2.81 |
| Wildcards Played |
0.3% |
0.9% |
| Wildcard Status |
|
|
| – played |
51.2% |
96.9% |
| – available |
48.8% |
3.1% |
| – active |
0.0% |
0.0% |
| Average Team Value |
₤100.2m |
₤108.1m |
| Average Money in the Bank |
₤1.0m |
₤2.3m |
TRANSFERS MADE
| Number |
Random Sample |
Top 10K |
| 0 |
73.8% |
7.3% |
| 1 |
9.3% |
32.0% |
| 2 |
10.5% |
44.1% |
| 3 |
3.9% |
13.2% |
| 4 and more |
2.2% |
2.5% |
| Wildcard |
0.3% |
0.9% |
POINT HITS TAKEN
| Point Hit |
Random Sample |
Top 10K |
| 0 points |
87.1% |
45.7% |
| 4 points |
7.9% |
41.1% |
| 8 points |
3.4% |
11.2% |
| 12 points |
0.9% |
1.6% |
| 16 points and more |
0.7% |
0.4% |
TRANSFERS IN
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Gerrard |
5.3% |
|
1 |
Agüero |
29.1% |
| 2 |
Eriksen |
4.8% |
|
2 |
Eriksen |
28.2% |
| 3 |
Agüero |
4.2% |
|
3 |
Mata |
27.8% |
| 4 |
Mata |
3.5% |
|
4 |
Nasri |
15.0% |
| 5 |
Nasri |
3.0% |
|
5 |
Gerrard |
14.1% |
| 246 different players bought |
|
188 different players bought |
TRANSFERS OUT
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Yaya Touré |
15.3% |
|
1 |
Yaya Touré |
73.1% |
| 2 |
Sturridge |
5.2% |
|
2 |
Sturridge |
23.5% |
| 3 |
Hazard |
4.8% |
|
3 |
Hazard |
17.3% |
| 4 |
Henderson(LIV) |
2.7% |
|
4 |
Silva |
11.5% |
| 5 |
Silva |
2.4% |
|
5 |
Lukaku |
9.2% |
| 320 different players sold |
|
230 different players sold |
FORMATIONS
| Formation |
Random Sample |
Top 10K |
| ‘3-4-3’ |
40.0% |
69.2% |
| ‘3-5-2’ |
6.9% |
4.9% |
| ‘4-3-3’ |
17.1% |
18.3% |
| ‘4-4-2’ |
31.3% |
5.3% |
| ‘4-5-1’ |
0.9% |
0.1% |
| ‘5-2-3’ |
1.1% |
1.0% |
| ‘5-3-2’ |
2.1% |
1.2% |
| ‘5-4-1’ |
0.5% |
0.1% |
CAPTAINCY
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Suárez |
40.1% |
|
1 |
Suárez |
89.6% |
| 2 |
van Persie |
9.9% |
|
2 |
Agüero |
6.2% |
| 3 |
Agüero |
4.5% |
|
3 |
Lukaku |
1.2% |
| 4 |
Sturridge |
4.4% |
|
4 |
Eriksen |
0.5% |
| 5 |
Yaya Touré |
4.0% |
|
5 |
Silva |
0.4% |
| 243 different captain choices |
|
35 different captain choices |
STARTING GOALKEEPERS
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Mignolet |
25.9% |
|
1 |
Speroni |
18.4% |
| 2 |
Cech |
11.2% |
|
2 |
Adrián |
13.7% |
| 3 |
Szczesny |
9.8% |
|
3 |
Boruc |
11.3% |
| 4 |
Howard |
6.6% |
|
4 |
Cech |
9.6% |
| 5 |
De Gea |
6.5% |
|
5 |
Howard |
9.2% |
| 53 different goalkeepers |
|
27 different goalkeepers |
STARTING DEFENDERS
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Coleman |
37.0% |
|
1 |
Coleman |
63.2% |
| 2 |
Mertesacker |
23.2% |
|
2 |
Zabaleta |
30.0% |
| 3 |
Zabaleta |
23.1% |
|
3 |
Azpilicueta |
26.6% |
| 4 |
Ivanovic |
19.1% |
|
4 |
Ivanovic |
26.1% |
| 5 |
Fonte |
17.7% |
|
5 |
Cahill |
25.7% |
| 201 different defenders |
|
89 different defenders |
STARTING MIDFIELDERS
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Lallana |
32.4% |
|
1 |
Gerrard |
55.4% |
| 2 |
Yaya Touré |
29.1% |
|
2 |
Silva |
48.7% |
| 3 |
Hazard |
22.3% |
|
3 |
Eriksen |
46.3% |
| 4 |
Gerrard |
19.0% |
|
4 |
Lallana |
41.2% |
| 5 |
Ramsey |
17.0% |
|
5 |
Mata |
35.6% |
| 243 different midfielders |
|
93 different midfielders |
STARTING FORWARDS
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Suárez |
51.7% |
|
1 |
Suárez |
99.4% |
| 2 |
Sturridge |
24.9% |
|
2 |
Lukaku |
66.8% |
| 3 |
Lukaku |
24.4% |
|
3 |
Agüero |
50.2% |
| 4 |
Giroud |
19.3% |
|
4 |
Sturridge |
22.5% |
| 5 |
Dzeko |
14.0% |
|
5 |
Dzeko |
20.1% |
| 114 different forwards |
|
39 different forwards |
BENCHED PLAYERS
| Random Sample |
|
Top 10K |
| 1 |
Kelvin Davis |
12.1% |
|
1 |
Mannone |
33.4% |
| 2 |
Whittaker |
10.1% |
|
2 |
Ward(CRY) |
17.4% |
| 3 |
Baker |
7.8% |
|
3 |
Kelvin Davis |
16.8% |
| 4 |
Harper |
6.8% |
|
4 |
Chester |
14.5% |
| 5 |
Boruc |
6.4% |
|
5 |
Yaya Touré |
12.6% |
| 628 different players on the bench |
|
376 different players on the bench |
OWNERSHIP AND CAPTAINCY DISTRIBUTION FOR MOST CAPTAINED PLAYERS
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EXCEL FILE WITH RAW DATA FOR TOP 10K
Raw data in the excel format for the top 10K can be downloaded HERE.
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In this post, I take a look at 2 samples: randomly selected 20,000 FPL teams and the top 10,000 FPL teams as of the start of the gameweek.
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