Top 10 Teams Analysis
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Top 10 Teams, 'Red Herrings'' 'Goal Keeper Rotation Policy Questioned.' & General Analysis.=================================================
Hello Football fans, This week I decided to do some detective work, I went undercover and sneaked a peek at the top 10 teams within the FPL. I downloaded their Game Week 12 teams & set about analysing how these fantasy guru's have accumulated their points so far. With 812 Points the maximum collected so far, the pace has been set at an average of 67.7 points per week.
Tenth position totals 785 points, an average points total per week of 65.41, not far behind top spot, I will be using these posts going forward to monitor if certain teams are finishing in the Top 10 consistently, there will be volatility but perhaps there maybe some player consistency or points to note.
Managers that stuck with Tevez after 3 weeks of not scoring were rewarded with a massive 19 points, not sure if lady luck played her part here for those that didn't twist, squad rotation was more than on the card for Game week 12. The large player points above obviously effect the Top 10 team, so even before looking at players in the teams, I will be expecting to see a few of these names in the line up and definitely a fair few Tevez / Silva Captaincy.
Well straight away we can see that there is least consistency with picking defenders, with 31 different names and although Baines was in the most selected defender, comparing this to other positioning this is also the least maximum compared to other positions. On comparison to strikers there are only 6 players selected across all ten teams, Suarez also ends up most selected out of all positions.
Red Herring's
Tevez - Due to Tevez's large points hall this week I was expecting a large number of selection for Golf Pro. Further weeks will reveal if this high selection value is just.
Goal Keeper Rotation Policy - Looking through the Top 10 sides I couldn't quite believe that nearly all of the teams do not seem to using a Goal Keeper Rotation Policy, Most had Begovic and another goal keeper who doesn't even get any playing time i.e Green, Stockdale etc. This just seemed crazy, to round things off Cerny who's QPR's third choice behind, Paddy Kenny and Cesar hasn't even picked up a single point this season but was selected by more than one team. Least my previous suggestion of Begovic seem like more than a good shout.
Comparing the Top 10 Selection to the Overall FPL TSB (Teams selected by.) There is a clear player difference. There is no mention of the following players, which gives food for thought, will be good to see if Guru manager know something the rest of us simple do not.
GK's
- Ruddy - Perhaps Norwich are just too unpredictable.
- Cech - You can't tell me they saw the Chelsea turmoil happening at the start of the week, perhaps just too expensive.
- Kompany - Way to expensive in my view, Trend Analysis of Points vs. Price shows this.
- Jenkinson - With Sanga and Gibbs on the way back from injury will Jenko play much more.
- Ivanovic / Cole - For the same reason as Torres, hard fixtures and GW15 missing a game, Ivanovic is also facing competition in Azpilicueta.
- Michu - Seems like a bargain, he's now a midfield playing as a striker who like to score, cheap option, I'm really surprised he was not more selected.
- Yaya Toure - If only Mancini, would play this boy further forward, now they are out of the Champions league perhaps they will dump the 532 formation and push Yaya forward. After all he is the 9th highest Mid point wise.
- Routledge - Many season's in the premiership without good points, I too have my reservations.
- Ba - Although next few fixtures are good, Newcastle & Ba are simply out of form, could this explain the non selection.
- Torres - I would have thought Torres would have made the list as he the only out and out striker in the Chelsea squad, with hard fixtures up and coming and Chelsea missing GW15, perhaps the guru managers are well prepared.
Captain Corner GW 12- As we all know, you can't afford a run of bad captain selections, None of the Guru's selected a bad skipper. A large Van Persie Score might see a big a change in the top teams next week.
| Captains | TSB | Points |
| Suarez | 7 | 22 |
| Tevez | 2 | 38 |
| Silva | 1 | 32 |
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