17/18 GW23 Team Selection and Stats

Hello and welcome to the pre-gameweek statistics for GW 23. This post contains some highlights, fixtures and charts, for complete and more detailed statistics go to THIS GOOGLE SPREADSHEET.

TRANSFERS AND POINT HITS

	Top 10K	Overall
Teams in Sample	10,000	20,000
Transfers Made	0.87	0.74
Point Hits Taken	14.0%	12.2%
Points Deducted	0.66	1.11
New teams compared to previous GW	19.8%
First time in top 10K since season start	9.6%
Active teams (at least 1 transfer since GW20)	97.5%	53.3%

CHIPS PLAYED

	Top 10K		Overall
	GW	Season	GW	Season
Wildcard	6.3%	13.0%	5.8%	9.6%
Triple Captain	0.1%	31.9%	0.4%	33.2%
Bench Boost	0.3%	16.7%	0.6%	17.2%
Free Hit	0.5%	40.4%	0.6%	26.3%
Total	7.2%	1 Chips	7.4%	0.9 Chips

CAPTAINS

Top 10K					Overall
1	Kane	TOT	65.8%		1	Kane	TOT	32.5%
2	Salah	LIV	8.1%		2	Lukaku	MUN	11.9%
3	Lingard	MUN	4.1%		3	Salah	LIV	8.7%
4	Hazard	CHE	3.0%		4	Aguero	MCI	6.5%
5	Aguero	MCI	2.6%		5	Morata	CHE	3.6%

TOP STARTING GOALKEEPERS

Top 10K					Overall
1	de Gea	MUN	45.4%		1	de Gea	MUN	40.8%
2	Pope	BUR	10.5%		2	Courtois	CHE	10.9%
3	Courtois	CHE	9.6%		3	Lloris	TOT	6.2%
4	Elliot	NEW	8.8%		4	Pope	BUR	5.0%
5	Adrian	WHU	6.4%		5	Foster	WBA	4.6%

TOP STARTING DEFENDERS

Top 10K					Overall
1	Otamendi	MCI	58.6%		1	Otamendi	MCI	29.0%
2	Alonso	CHE	45.0%		2	Alonso	CHE	24.9%
3	Jones	MUN	42.0%		3	Azpilicueta	CHE	21.9%
4	Azpilicueta	CHE	28.7%		4	Jones	MUN	15.2%
5	Christensen	CHE	17.6%		5	Hegazi	WBA	14.9%
6	Mee	BUR	14.6%		6	Bellerin	ARS	12.3%
7	Ogbonna	WHU	13.5%		7	Davies	TOT	12.0%

TOP STARTING MIDFIELDERS

Top 10K					Overall
1	Sterling	MCI	83.8%		1	Salah	LIV	49.0%
2	Salah	LIV	80.3%		2	Sterling	MCI	36.6%
3	Lingard	MUN	45.9%		3	De Bruyne	MCI	21.7%
4	Son	TOT	37.5%		4	Lingard	MUN	19.5%
5	Arnautovic	WHU	24.1%		5	Eriksen	TOT	17.3%
6	Richarlison	WAT	19.4%		6	Alli	TOT	15.1%
7	Eriksen	TOT	16.3%		7	Gro?	BHA	14.2%

TOP STARTING FORWARDS

Top 10K					Overall
1	Kane	TOT	76.5%		1	Kane	TOT	45.5%
2	Firmino	LIV	56.9%		2	Firmino	LIV	34.4%
3	Aguero	MCI	18.3%		3	Lukaku	MUN	23.5%
4	Morata	CHE	13.9%		4	Aguero	MCI	20.2%
5	Vardy	LEI	8.3%		5	Morata	CHE	15.8%
6	Rooney	EVE	7.8%		6	Rooney	EVE	13.6%
7	Depoitre	HUD	7.4%		7	Vardy	LEI	11.9%

TOP BENCH (OUTFIELD PLAYERS)

Top 10K					Overall
1	Calvert-Lewin	EVE	25.4%		1	Mbemba	NEW	9.1%
2	Kenny	EVE	17.3%		2	Rangel	SWA	8.3%
3	Loftus-Cheek	CRY	16.2%		3	Calvert-Lewin	EVE	6.4%
4	Quaner	HUD	11.6%		4	Ward	BUR	5.7%
5	Otamendi	MCI	11.4%		5	Mee	BUR	5.6%
6	Mee	BUR	10.0%		6	Loftus-Cheek	CRY	4.8%
7	Mbemba	NEW	9.5%		7	Hunemeier	BHA	4.6%

TOP PLAYERS BOUGHT

Top 10K					Overall
1	Lingard	MUN	24.8%		1	Lingard	MUN	10.0%
2	Salah	LIV	16.7%		2	Kane	TOT	4.7%
3	Alonso	CHE	7.8%		3	Salah	LIV	4.2%
4	Jones	MUN	6.8%		4	Sterling	MCI	3.7%
5	Firmino	LIV	5.7%		5	Mahrez	LEI	3.5%

TOP PLAYERS SOLD

Top 10K					Overall
1	Coutinho	LIV	16.8%		1	Coutinho	LIV	10.1%
2	Arnautovic	WHU	14.3%		2	Vardy	LEI	3.6%
3	Son	TOT	11.9%		3	Firmino	LIV	3.4%
4	Eriksen	TOT	9.8%		4	Arnautovic	WHU	3.3%
5	Alli	TOT	8.8%		5	Eriksen	TOT	3.1%

20 MOST INFLUENTIAL PLAYERS OVERALL

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GAMEWEEK SCHEDULE AND COVERAGE

This table shows how many FPL teams have players of a particular position from a particular team playing in a particular match of this gameweek. The percentages below are presented on an aggregate basis: captains are counted twice, triple captains are counted thrice, so that the numbers better indicate how certain teams affect average gameweek points. If you point your mouse at a certain number more details will show up. This table may be useful to assess coverage and what particular match result would be most welcome for your fantasy team, as well as to keep track of the progress of this gameweek.

	Top 10K				Overall
Fixture	G&D,%	MID,%	FOR,%	TOTAL,%	G&D,%	MID,%	FOR,%	TOTAL,%
DAY 1
DAY 1	264.1	192.9	199.6	656.5	268.0	186.3	172.9	627.2
13 Jan 15:00
Chelsea	104.6	21.8	15.9	142.3	77.5	33.5	20.1	131.2
Leicester	2.6	11.6	9.2	23.4	12.6	15.4	16.8	44.8
	Alonso(46.2), Azpilicueta(28.8), Christensen(17.6)				Alonso(25.5), Azpilicueta(22.2), Morata(19.4)
13 Jan 15:00
Crystal Palace	3.0	10.0	0.3	13.2	4.0	10.9	2.8	17.7
Burnley	29.9	1.2	0.4	31.5	24.5	2.7	2.3	29.5
	Mee(14.6), Pope(10.5), Loftus-Cheek(5.1)				Mee(9.3), Zaha(5.2), Pope(5.0)
13 Jan 15:00
Huddersfield	7.4	2.1	7.9	17.4	12.3	6.0	7.4	25.7
West Ham	31.9	27.5	1.2	60.5	13.6	8.9	6.8	29.3
	Arnautovic(24.3), Ogbonna(13.5), Masuaku(7.9)				Chicharito(6.1), Arnautovic(5.6), Mooy(5.4)
13 Jan 15:00
Newcastle	17.4	2.6	1.6	21.6	12.2	3.9	2.7	18.7
Swansea	2.8	1.0	3.6	7.4	7.0	2.1	6.1	15.2
	Elliot(8.8), Lascelles(4.7), Ayew(3.0)				Lascelles(4.1), Fabianski(3.0), Ayew(2.8)
13 Jan 15:00
Watford	4.2	26.0	0.6	30.7	5.3	25.4	1.9	32.5
Southampton	1.5	0.5	0.2	2.2	11.7	5.9	1.7	19.3
	Richarlison(19.6), Doucoure(6.3), Kabasele(1.6)				Richarlison(14.1), Doucoure(9.4), Bertrand(4.4)
13 Jan 15:00
West Brom	11.7	0.1	0.6	12.3	22.7	1.5	1.3	25.4
Brighton	14.4	16.0	2.4	32.8	9.2	15.5	2.4	27.0
	Gro?(15.8), Dunk(7.7), Hegazi(7.3)				Hegazi(15.0), Gro?(14.3), Foster(4.6)
13 Jan 17:30
Spurs	28.5	72.4	142.4	243.3	37.3	50.2	78.4	165.8
Everton	4.3	0.1	13.5	17.9	18.2	4.5	22.3	45.1
	Kane(142.4), Son(39.1), Eriksen(17.8)				Kane(78.2), Eriksen(18.9), Alli(16.1)
DAY 2
DAY 2	89.6	205.7	82.8	378.0	108.6	189.4	87.2	385.3
14 Jan 13:30
Bournemouth	1.3	1.1	2.6	5.0	10.3	3.3	3.7	17.3
Arsenal	13.4	3.1	1.9	18.4	29.7	16.2	12.2	58.1
	Bellerin(7.8), Mustafi(4.0), Wilson(2.6)				Bellerin(12.3), Lacazette(10.6), Xhaka(6.2)
14 Jan 16:00
Liverpool	8.4	91.5	57.4	157.3	16.4	77.8	38.2	132.5
Man City	66.4	109.9	20.9	197.2	52.2	92.2	33.0	177.5
	Salah(88.4), Sterling(85.6), Otamendi(58.6)				Salah(57.7), Sterling(39.1), Firmino(37.1)
DAY 3
DAY 3	93.7	65.0	8.1	166.7	77.6	66.5	46.1	190.2
15 Jan 20:00
Man Utd	93.6	62.8	7.5	163.9	74.6	57.1	43.5	175.2
Stoke	0.1	2.2	0.6	2.9	3.0	9.4	2.6	15.1
	Lingard(50.1), de Gea(45.8), Jones(42.2)				de Gea(42.0), Lukaku(35.5), Lingard(21.2)
TOTAL	447.3	463.5	290.5	1201.3	454.2	442.2	306.2	1202.7