The group of 34 experienced Fantasy Premier League managers I’m tracking were having an awful season when I started this series back in Gameweek 15. With one Gameweek left I take a penultimate look at their progress so far to see if, as I predicted when the series launched, they would succeed in their mission to rise up the rankings.
TRANSFERS
Gameweek 37 transfers by positions (% of all transfers in bracket)
– Goalkeepers: (00.00%)
– Defenders: (35.63%)
– Midfielders: (35.63%)
– Forwards: (28.74%)
Veterans made 2.56 transfers on average in Gameweek 37.
Transfers In:
– Andy Carrol (WHU): 24.14%
– Eden Hazard (CHE): 20.69%
– Aaron Cresswell (WHU): 17.24%
Transfers Out:
– Harry Kane (TOT): 19.54%
– Mamadou Sakho (LIV): 9.20%
– Dele Alli (TOT): 6.90%
HITS AND CHIPS
Transfer Hits
Veterans took on average 1.5 hits in Gameweek 37, much more than the top 10,000 managers as well as managers overall. It is worth pointing out though that the overall number is so small as, according to the FPL discovery website, there are only 41.30% active teams left.
Chips
Veterans who saved their bench boost chip had the biggest score, although the triple captaincy chip also proved effective.
CAPTAINS
Captains of all 34 teams:
– Dimitri Payet (WHU): 70.59%
– Andy Carroll (WHU): 17.65%
– Eden Hazard (CHE): 5.88%
These three players were also the most popular captain choices amongst top 10,000 managers as well. Among the veterans, 82.35% used their Triple Captain chip in Gameweek 37.
Captains of the Veterans who used Triple Captain chip:
– Dimitri Payet (WHU): 75.00%
– Andy Carroll (WHU): 17.86%
– Eden Hazard (CHE): 3.57%
– Jermain Defoe (SUN): 3.57%
Payet bagged a brace of assists against Manchester United, satisfying the legion of managers that bestowed him with the triple skipper’s armband. However, Carroll scored just three points in the two home games and proved a major disappointment. The small proportion of Hazard and Defoe triple captainers were also left happy, with both recording double-digit hauls across their two games.
MOST POPULAR PLAYERS
Top starting players
OVERALL RANKINGS
– Maximum points: 126
The current average overall position of the veterans is 14,932, their best ranking so far. To put this into perspective their average overall rank is 6,230 places higher than after Gameweek 36 and markedly better than their Gameweek 15 average overall rank of 156,500.
Among the veterans, 79.41% gained a green arrow in Gameweek 37 and their average score was 94.21 points (87.97 after hits). This is way up on the overall average (55.20 points, 54.10 after hits) and also better than the top 10,000 managers’ average (79.60 points, 75.80 after hits).
Half of the 34 veterans are now amongst the top 10,000 managers in FPL and on current form I expect that proportion to rise after Gameweek 38.
7 years, 11 months agoGood to dig out the smiling pensioner pic again. 🙂
As said on this week's Scoutcast saving chips and wildcards for the double gameweeks has been key to the veterans success.
For most of these experienced managers when the chips were announced their first thought was to save them for double gameweeks.
Very interesting that your research backs up the assertion that those who bench boosted in GWK 37 not GWK 34 were better off. Those huge points hauls for Aguero and Sanchez in GWK 34 for those that also triple captained then add further weight to this.
As ever cheers so much for this excellent series. Looking forward to see how this bunch do in GWK 38.