My articles on the final top 1K and top 10K teams made me wonder if there is indeed some ‘optimal’ range for the number of transfers that we should strive for to achieve the highest possible overall rank. In this post, I take a look at transfer policies of the top 100,000 teams and see how transfer activity was associated with the final rank on a larger scale.
Total Number of Transfers for top 100K FPL Teams
The winner 14/15 scored 2,470 points, a team with a top 100K rank scored 2,058 points. Here is how transfer activity varied for this range of points:
For each amount of total points scored, this chart shows average, minimum, and maximum numbers of transfers. The 5th and 95th percentiles correspond to the amount of transfers so that 5% and 95% of the teams made fewer transfers.
- The average number of transfers shows little variance and remains stable at roughly 43-44 transfers, although it slightly decreases towards the right.
- As we go down the rankings, there is more diversity in transfer activity. The spread between the 5% of the teams with the most transfers and the 5% with the least transfers expands, so does the spread between the minimum and maximum numbers of transfers.
- At the 2,097 points mark, the minimum number of transfers is 0. Is this the highest ranked dead team? Nope, it’s a fake dead team which made 0 transfers but played both wildcards (what a weird way to play FPL 😀 ). The actual highest ranked dead team has got 2,043 points and finished at rank 121,629. That’s without Hazard or Sanchez, but with the front line of Aguero(c), Austin, and Harry Kane as a third sub. Yes, it did get those 18 points vs Chelsea 🙂
To get another perspective, let’s consider how transfer policies in top 100, top 1K, top 10K, and top 100K differed from one another.
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