GW 38 Transfers and Team Selection

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

It’s GW 38 today, which means that another season has come to an end. Today, I’m posting my last regular posts, a few posts with season reviews are still to come over the next few days / weeks.

Hopefully, my blog has helped you boost your rank, win a mini league, and better understand the essence of our favorite game. Please consider a little donation for all the efforts and time spent on running it 🙂 Anyway, thanks for being with FPL Discovery during this season. Enjoy the final GW.

TRANSFERS AND TEAM VALUE

	Random Sample	Top 10K
Number of Managers	20,000	10,000
Average Transfers Made	0.38	1.39
Point Hits Taken	7.2%	27.8%
Average Points Deducted (Incl. No Hits)	0.48	1.32
Wildcards Played	0.3%	0.3%
Wildcard Status
– played	0.0%	0.0%
– available	100.0%	100.0%
– active	0.0%	0.0%
Average Team Value	₤98.0m	₤103.5m
Average Money in the Bank	₤1.1m	₤1.3m

TRANSFERS MADE

Number	Random Sample	Top 10K
0	78.9%	7.7%
1	9.4%	52.9%
2	8.3%	32.9%
3	2.1%	5.5%
4 and more	1.1%	0.8%
Wildcard	0.3%	0.3%

POINT HITS TAKEN

Point Hit	Random Sample	Top 10K
0 points	92.8%	72.2%
4 points	4.8%	23.5%
8 points	1.5%	3.7%
12 points	0.4%	0.5%
16 points and more	0.4%	0.2%

TRANSFERS IN

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Silva	4.3%		1	Silva	18.6%
2	Benteke	2.2%		2	Benteke	13.0%
3	Mata	1.5%		3	Bolasie	10.7%
4	Agüero	1.4%		4	Mata	10.4%
5	Bolasie	1.4%		5	Lukaku	8.4%
266 different players bought				196 different players bought

TRANSFERS OUT

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Hazard	7.8%		1	Hazard	37.5%
2	Fàbregas	3.5%		2	Kane	15.0%
3	Kane	2.5%		3	Giroud	12.0%
4	de Gea	1.9%		4	Defoe	6.1%
5	Giroud	1.8%		5	Fàbregas	5.2%
283 different players sold				209 different players sold

FORMATIONS

Formation	Random Sample	Top 10K
‘3-4-3’	45.3%	82.4%
‘3-5-2’	12.7%	9.4%
‘4-3-3’	10.0%	5.2%
‘4-4-2’	28.8%	2.7%
‘4-5-1’	1.3%	0.1%
‘5-2-3’	0.3%	0.1%
‘5-3-2’	1.2%	0.1%
‘5-4-1’	0.4%	0.0%

CAPTAINCY

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Agüero	16.0%		1	Agüero	70.3%
2	Costa	13.6%		2	Benteke	8.4%
3	Sánchez(ARS)	10.0%		3	Sánchez(ARS)	7.1%
4	Rooney	7.5%		4	Costa	2.2%
5	Hazard	6.9%		5	Lukaku	1.9%
264 different captain choices				65 different captain choices

STARTING GOALKEEPERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	de Gea	18.0%		1	Schmeichel	28.2%
2	Courtois	8.6%		2	Ospina	16.0%
3	Mignolet	7.8%		3	Krul	13.1%
4	Lloris	6.6%		4	Myhill	11.2%
5	Howard	6.5%		5	Mignolet	10.8%
54 different goalkeepers				36 different goalkeepers

STARTING DEFENDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Ivanovic	30.0%		1	Terry	57.8%
2	Clyne	26.5%		2	Bellerín	38.3%
3	Terry	22.3%		3	Ivanovic	32.7%
4	Bertrand	16.1%		4	Schlupp	29.7%
5	Jagielka	14.3%		5	Skrtel	20.4%
215 different defenders				100 different defenders

STARTING MIDFIELDERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Sánchez(ARS)	36.8%		1	Sánchez(ARS)	87.3%
2	Hazard	32.6%		2	Silva	76.9%
3	Sterling	27.2%		3	Hazard	33.9%
4	Fàbregas	24.7%		4	Cazorla	24.5%
5	Silva	24.5%		5	Ramsey	21.2%
245 different midfielders				85 different midfielders

STARTING FORWARDS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Kane	43.4%		1	Agüero	97.2%
2	Agüero	29.7%		2	Kane	52.2%
3	Costa	26.4%		3	Benteke	40.3%
4	Giroud	17.9%		4	Giroud	40.2%
5	Rooney	15.0%		5	Vardy	24.7%
107 different forwards				32 different forwards

BENCHED PLAYERS

Random Sample				Top 10K
1	Myhill	12.0%		1	van Aanholt	54.1%
2	Wisdom	9.6%		2	Pantilimon	32.9%
3	Bruce	9.5%		3	Boyd	18.4%
4	Krul	8.4%		4	Myhill	17.0%
5	Guzan	7.0%		5	Alderweireld	14.1%
660 different players on the bench				302 different players on the bench

OWNERSHIP AND CAPTAINCY DISTRIBUTION FOR MOST CAPTAINED PLAYERS

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