BEST XI (3-4-3) | |
De Gea | 92 |
Williams | 62.5 |
Rangel | 56 |
Jones | 54.5 |
Nani | 83.5 |
Silva | 82 |
Young | 77.5 |
Dempsey | 77.5 |
Rooney | 135 |
Aguero | 115 |
Dzeko | 95.5 |
TOTAL | 931 |
| |
OTHER TOP SCORERS | |
Van Persie | 86 |
Hart | 77.5 |
Suarez | 69 |
Vorm | 68.5 |
Lampard | 67.5 |
Di Santo | 65 |
Given | 65 |
M.Petrov | 63.5 |
Van Der Vaart | 63 |
Anderson | 60.5 |
Agbonlahor | 60 |
| |
AVG 10+ (MIN 3 GAMES) | |
Rooney | 22.5 |
Aguero | 16 |
Dzeko | 15.92 |
De Gea | 15.33 |
Sturridge | 15 |
Zamora | 14.75 |
Adebayor | 13.75 |
Young | 12.92 |
Van Der Vaart | 12.6 |
Van Persie | 12.29 |
Nani | 11.93 |
Silva | 11.71 |
Lampard | 11.25 |
Bramble | 11.17 |
Hart | 11.07 |
Dempsey | 10.36 |
Ba | 10 |
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This post has been compiled without any real aim in mind, other than to see if we can draw anything from early season form. Just to get you thinking really, but do any of the these stats mean anything in terms of possible patterns?
We can see that two Swansea players are ripping shit up when it comes to defenders, and many keepers are having a great time - DDG in particular, but also Vorm, Hart & Given - which is very different to last season when most keepers struggled.
It's clear that dropping Silva or Aguero early would've been a mistake at this point, you can see defenders score far less than attacking players (der!) which seems to enforce the reason so many of us spend light on our back three. Premium midfielders are scoring well too, but strikers really are dominating the points thus far, with Rooney & Aguero ahead by miles (despite a zero each already).
Of course, we need to take "price per point" in to consideration before we can make any definitive analysis. It would be great if we had a reporting/stats systems of early values/points to see true patterns of price per point since Week 1, because player price fluctuations are so important in YFF, but we can't without some serious nerdy manual work (and I'm not sure the player values shown on the "weekly" individual player stats pages are 100% accurate anyway), so from now on we need to look to the future based on current prices.
One thing I would think is ... IF you hold DDG, Silva, Aguero, Adebayor & Rooney at their early prices of 6, 8, 6, 6 & 17 (ish) respectively, and they keep their fitness & anything close to their early form (i.e. average points), then you could have a big advantage over other managers in the next few months. But that really is a big IF, and I may be clutching at straws (because I have all four out of the five of them!) :)
Anyway, I'll be back with some more on this tomorrow, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on anything you think you've picked up on.
Cheers,
AM