Fantasy EPL GW2 Recap and GW3 Algo Recommendations (2023–24)

Current rank 1.8M — Top 20% in the World (team_id: 1458482)

Dilyan Kovachev
10 min readAug 25

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If this is the first time you land on one of our Fantasy EPL Blogs, you might want to check out some of our original blogs in my Medium archives to get familiar with our overall approach and the improvements we’ve made to the captain/team recommender algorithm over time.

Top 100 Managers FPL Team Stats for GW2

The Top 100 Managers in the World had a VERY high AVG score of 89pts, with a good amount of top players scoring in the 80–100pt range. So, if you scored 80pts+ you should feel pretty good about your performance.

Most Selected Player Combo by Top 100 Managers

We used the data for most selected players for each position by the Top100 managers to create the hybrid team below:

Top 100 Team Formations

Looks like most top players used a 3-4–3 or 3-5–2formations last GW.

GW2 Performance Recap and Overall Stats

We had all of our teams score above the AVG for GW16, but we had a pretty low score compared to Top100 Managers, so not a great week for us. We tried to divercify our captain by having Haaland in one team and Salah on the other, but sadly Salah missed the penalty before he scored the rebound, and did not return as much as he could have if he had just scored it.

Useful Stats to Inform our GW3 Picks

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Dilyan Kovachev

A curious mind with an affinity for numbers, trying to understand the world through Data Science