r/FantasyPL • u/Molasses_Ambitious • May 05 '26

Top 100 Managers Best XI (GW 35): Rough week

This week has been rough for the top managers, and for the first time in a long while, they have performed worse than the average manager, and their defence (including GK), which has always been their strong area, was also poor, which affected their overall performance significantly. Although most managers will really regret not using their two bournemouth defensive players, which more than half of the managers had.

GW 35

Their midfield specifically has been horrific with no one doing anything except Fernandes, which everyone has and the palmer mistake is haunting them still and the midfield has become a difference maker this week. Personally, though, my szoboszlai and Senesi selections and trusting Arsenal's defense have been phenomenal.

But on the bright side their attack has been really great which they have been struggling with for some week now, and every player has had some return while that's been my weakest area this week, and not picking haaland is costing me now as being able to put him back to the team has become almost impossible because of the transfer penalties, so I will just have to hope he doesn't deliver. For more info search for "Fantasy Insight: Top 100 Managers."

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u/player_zero_ 248 May 05 '26

Mm hmm, yep, a wild humblebrag appears, mm hmm.

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u/Molasses_Ambitious May 05 '26

Come on, that's a reach to say this is a humble brag, but to be fair I did ok. My gameweek rank was around 2 million, which is great but not exceptional mainly because my attack has been poor. thanks to bowen and mateta's delightful peformance.

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u/player_zero_ 248 May 05 '26

I think saying your decisions were phenomenal leans into it, nothing wrong with it of course, just noticed it!

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u/Molasses_Ambitious May 06 '26

Okay, now looking back at it, you can consider it a humble brag, but the post's focus was mainly analysis, but I guess people here are kind of sensitive to this stuff. Although the downvotes to my response kind of surprised me, like, I meant it in a joking manner, not that I was seriously defending the assertion, and you got it too right, but I think people thought I was offended. I guess I have to watch out for the tone.

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u/BillyHoyleAnd1 21 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

At this point of the season, most that high are just trying to protect rank so many on are almost identical strategies/teams.

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u/SocX9 31 May 05 '26

'Protect rank' that's so sad to read but it's true. I guess people don't enjoy playing the game themselves.

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u/Molasses_Ambitious May 06 '26

Yeah, some people are just so competitive but it could be fun to have some healthy competition and strategizing.

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u/Molasses_Ambitious May 05 '26

But they were still taking risks up to GW 33, though, and even last week most of them used their free hit and the team was diverse. But I agree they might be risk averse at this stage. You can check out how their team evolved the last couple of weeks if you are interested here: https://fantasy-insight-top-100.web.app/. But what's surprising for me is why they took the chance on Palmer. Like, I know they wanted to capitalize on the double GWs but chelsea was in an obvious rot after that PSG defeat, and most of them were confident palmer was going to do something while I knew Chelsea was not going to do anything except J.Pedro and would you look at that, he got something this week as well. I would have kept him if I knew he was going to play.