GW 28 Transfers and Team Selection

Please welcome to the statistics on team selection and transfer activity for GW 28. 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	0.41	1.60
Point Hits Taken	8.6%	33.6%
Average Points Deducted (Incl. No Hits)	0.52	1.54
Wildcards Played	0.4%	1.9%
Wildcard Status
– played	48.3%	76.3%
– available	51.7%	23.7%
– active	0.0%	0.0%
Average Team Value	₤99.0m	₤103.8m
Average Money in the Bank	₤1.0m	₤1.6m

TRANSFERS MADE

Number	Random Sample	Top 10K
0	76.6%	9.5%
1	10.4%	30.5%
2	9.0%	46.2%
3	2.5%	11.2%
4 and more	1.1%	0.9%
Wildcard	0.4%	1.9%

POINT HITS TAKEN

Point Hit	Random Sample	Top 10K
0 points	91.4%	66.4%
4 points	5.9%	29.1%
8 points	1.8%	4.1%
12 points	0.5%	0.4%
16 points and more	0.4%	0.0%

TRANSFERS IN

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Eriksen	5.8%		1	Eriksen	62.7%
2	Austin	4.7%		2	Austin	35.7%
3	Rose(TOT)	4.3%		3	Rose(TOT)	25.2%
4	Kane	2.7%		4	Kane	4.7%
5	Coutinho	2.0%		5	Silva	4.4%
252 different players bought				190 different players bought

TRANSFERS OUT

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Di María	3.2%		1	Di María	31.8%
2	Ings	2.2%		2	Defoe	15.2%
3	Downing	1.7%		3	Giroud	12.3%
4	Sánchez(ARS)	1.6%		4	Cazorla	11.9%
5	Clichy	1.5%		5	Jones(MUN)	9.3%
342 different players sold				249 different players sold

FORMATIONS

Formation	Random Sample	Top 10K
‘3-4-3’	42.5%	82.5%
‘3-5-2’	12.3%	6.9%
‘4-3-3’	9.8%	5.7%
‘4-4-2’	31.3%	4.2%
‘4-5-1’	1.7%	0.2%
‘5-2-3’	0.3%	0.1%
‘5-3-2’	1.4%	0.3%
‘5-4-1’	0.7%	0.1%

CAPTAINCY

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Kane	21.7%		1	Kane	87.2%
2	Costa	16.3%		2	Agüero	6.4%
3	Agüero	10.8%		3	Eriksen	2.8%
4	Rooney	7.3%		4	Austin	0.8%
5	Sánchez(ARS)	4.9%		5	Sánchez(ARS)	0.7%
244 different captain choices				41 different captain choices

STARTING GOALKEEPERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	de Gea	20.6%		1	Foster	28.8%
2	Forster	14.1%		2	Pantilimon	25.6%
3	Lloris	8.9%		3	Forster	10.9%
4	Courtois	6.6%		4	de Gea	9.2%
5	Howard	6.0%		5	Ospina	6.4%
56 different goalkeepers				26 different goalkeepers

STARTING DEFENDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Clyne	33.4%		1	Clyne	43.3%
2	Ivanovic	24.8%		2	Terry	31.0%
3	Terry	17.3%		3	Bellerín	29.7%
4	Bertrand	15.3%		4	Rose(TOT)	28.9%
5	Baines	13.4%		5	Bertrand	21.2%
211 different defenders				97 different defenders

STARTING MIDFIELDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Hazard	33.9%		1	Hazard	80.9%
2	Sterling	30.2%		2	Eriksen	74.3%
3	Sánchez(ARS)	29.8%		3	Silva	64.7%
4	Fàbregas	29.2%		4	Sánchez(ARS)	50.8%
5	Eriksen	26.1%		5	Cazorla	36.8%
245 different midfielders				89 different midfielders

STARTING FORWARDS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Kane	44.1%		1	Kane	97.0%
2	Costa	35.7%		2	Agüero	94.7%
3	Agüero	28.8%		3	Austin	39.2%
4	Austin	16.4%		4	Giroud	34.7%
5	Rooney	15.7%		5	Rooney	3.9%
103 different forwards				35 different forwards

BENCHED PLAYERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Myhill	12.3%		1	van Aanholt	37.3%
2	Wisdom	10.0%		2	Boyd	28.6%
3	Krul	9.9%		3	Krul	27.1%
4	Bruce	8.4%		4	Naughton	13.5%
5	Hamer	7.6%		5	Myhill	12.8%
644 different players on the bench				332 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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