GW 22 Transfers and Team Selection

Please welcome to the statistics on team selection and transfer activity for GW 22. See this post for highlights and graphs, FULL STATS are available in THIS GOOGLE SPREADSHEET.

TRANSFERS AND TEAM VALUE

	Random Sample	Top 10K
Number of Managers	20,000	10,000
Average Transfers Made	0.43	0.86
Point Hits Taken	5.6%	8.1%
Average Points Deducted (Incl. No Hits)	0.35	0.37
Wildcards Played	5.6%	21.7%
Wildcard Status
– played	10.4%	28.0%
– available	89.6%	71.8%
– active	0.0%	0.2%
Average Team Value	₤99.4m	₤104.3m
Average Money in the Bank	₤0.9m	₤1.2m

TRANSFERS MADE

Number	Random Sample	Top 10K
0	67.9%	15.4%
1	15.0%	41.8%
2	8.9%	19.7%
3	1.8%	1.4%
4 and more	0.9%	0.1%
Wildcard	5.6%	21.7%

POINT HITS TAKEN

Point Hit	Random Sample	Top 10K
0 points	94.4%	91.9%
4 points	4.1%	7.6%
8 points	1.0%	0.4%
12 points	0.3%	0.0%
16 points and more	0.3%	0.1%

TRANSFERS IN

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Agüero	6.0%		1	Agüero	40.0%
2	Kane	5.5%		2	Di María	14.3%
3	Chadli	3.3%		3	Chadli	12.3%
4	Downing	2.9%		4	Bertrand	12.0%
5	Sánchez(ARS)	2.8%		5	Wasilewski	11.1%
328 different players bought				263 different players bought

TRANSFERS OUT

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Sigurdsson	3.2%		1	Austin	16.0%
2	Rooney	2.6%		2	Azpilicueta	13.9%
3	van Persie	2.5%		3	Costa	13.0%
4	Azpilicueta	2.4%		4	Silva	12.2%
5	Austin	2.3%		5	Sigurdsson	10.9%
420 different players sold				326 different players sold

FORMATIONS

Formation	Random Sample	Top 10K
‘3-4-3’	48.1%	84.4%
‘3-5-2’	13.3%	13.3%
‘4-3-3’	8.4%	1.1%
‘4-4-2’	27.2%	1.1%
‘4-5-1’	1.4%	0.1%
‘5-2-3’	0.2%	0.0%
‘5-3-2’	1.1%	0.0%
‘5-4-1’	0.3%	0.0%

CAPTAINCY

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Costa	27.2%		1	Kane	45.8%
2	Kane	11.4%		2	Agüero	20.8%
3	Rooney	9.1%		3	Hazard	9.7%
4	Hazard	6.7%		4	Costa	7.2%
5	Sánchez(ARS)	5.9%		5	Rooney	2.9%
239 different captain choices				44 different captain choices

STARTING GOALKEEPERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	de Gea	19.3%		1	Foster	13.4%
2	Forster	12.0%		2	Heaton	13.2%
3	Lloris	9.1%		3	Guzan	12.9%
4	Guzan	7.4%		4	de Gea	11.4%
5	Courtois	7.3%		5	Forster	11.3%
54 different goalkeepers				34 different goalkeepers

STARTING DEFENDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Bertrand	27.2%		1	Terry	39.7%
2	Clyne	24.6%		2	Bertrand	36.3%
3	Ivanovic	23.1%		3	Clyne	22.7%
4	Baines	17.3%		4	Wisdom	20.8%
5	Terry	17.1%		5	Hutton	18.8%
209 different defenders				109 different defenders

STARTING MIDFIELDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Sánchez(ARS)	43.6%		1	Sánchez(ARS)	94.1%
2	Fàbregas	41.7%		2	Hazard	85.0%
3	Sigurdsson	35.1%		3	Silva	58.1%
4	Hazard	33.5%		4	Downing	41.1%
5	Sterling	28.7%		5	Fàbregas	27.4%
239 different midfielders				71 different midfielders

STARTING FORWARDS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Costa	57.7%		1	Kane	91.9%
2	Kane	36.1%		2	Costa	68.1%
3	Austin	25.3%		3	Austin	47.4%
4	Rooney	19.8%		4	Agüero	43.2%
5	Pellè	14.8%		5	Rooney	11.1%
98 different forwards				33 different forwards

BENCHED PLAYERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Myhill	12.9%		1	Wisdom	37.0%
2	Wisdom	10.6%		2	Boyd	29.5%
3	Bruce	9.6%		3	Hutton	28.0%
4	Krul	8.7%		4	Sigurdsson	21.4%
5	Guzan	8.0%		5	Pantilimon	18.5%
630 different players on the bench				360 different players on the bench

OWNERSHIP AND CAPTAINCY DISTRIBUTION FOR MOST CAPTAINED PLAYERS

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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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