By The Numbers: GW 33 Saturday €50K Main Event Analysed

Sarkostas won both Monsters and pocketed almost €8,500 but somewhat surprisingly didn't become the most profitable manager of the weekend. How is it possible? Find it out in our weekly analysis as the English Premier League continues gaining momentum.

€2 buy-in, €7,000 GPP

The €2 tournament with a GPP of €6,500 recorded 3,241 entries last Saturday.

Sarkostas won the mini-monster having become one of three managers to overcome the 100-point barrier.

The winner was only the fourth as far as game week points are concerned but his pursuit bonus of 5.64 points helped him reach the top. The key decision that led to the victory was stacking Schmeichel and Justin which turned out to be a very wise move from the pursuit point of view.

The runner-up Mitya took the first place in terms of player points. There were only 2 differences from the winning team - Pulisic and Iheanacho - who were more expensive and not so efficient.

TOP-5 IN THE €2 BUY-IN, €7,000 GPP

1. sarkostas – €1,000 (101.64 points)

2. Mitya – €600 (101.32)

3. Vertsi-79 – €400 (101.12)

4.  stifler88– €250 (99.84)

5.  schmidte – €155 (99.42)

There was a threshold of 78.3 points in the tournament for getting ITM (in the money).

schmidte and stifler88 were successful with a bunch of their teams. Therefore, they improved their position in the overall profit rankings.

TOP-5 IN PROFIT €2 BUY-IN, €7,000 GPP (ALL ENTRIES)

1. sarkostas  – €1,007 (5 entries)

2. schmidte – €601 (74)

3. Mitya – €598 (1)

4. stifler88 – €402 (6)

5. Vertsi_79 – €398 (3)

€20 buy-in, €50,000 GPP

2,257 spots out of 3500 were filled in the €20 tournament with a GPP of €50,000.

Sarkostas won the Main event with a €20 buy-in as well. We have already discussed his picks, let's have a look at the runner-up instead.

Schmidte had a very profitable weekend, as four of his teams reached Top-10. Three of them used 0-0-4-3 formation where all attention is paid to the attacking assets. And none of those let him down.

TOP-5 IN €20 BUY-IN, €50,000 GPP

1. sarkostas – €7,500 (101.64 points)

2. schmidte – €4,000 (99.42)

3. alax – €2,500 (99.18)

4. schmidte– €1,700 (99.18)

5. Ins – €1,230 (99.04)

There was a threshold of 76.5 to reach the 556th place and get ITM.

sarkostas made 5 entries in a €2 tournament and only one in €20. The winning one! Schmidte didn't win but managed to overcome the champion in terms of overall profit.

TOP-5 IN PROFIT €20 BUY-IN, €100,000 GPP (ALL ENTRIES)

1. schmidte– €8,901 (74 entries)

2. sarkostas – €7,480 (1)

3. alax – €2,480 (1)

4. SYNDICATE – €1,295 (15)

5. top – €1,259 (32)

ANALYZING WEEKLY MONSTER'S TOP-20

In this part of the article, we are going to explore some trends of the Pursuit mode and other new features in the FanTeam Tournaments.

7-man Pursuit format is still used for Weekly Monsters but now the players are limited to a maximum of three players from 1 team. Man United attacking explosion against Bournemouth sufficiently decreased the variability of the squads at the top of the standings. Nevertheless, let's try to find something interesting from the stats and ratings.

Formation

Only three formations were used by the managers in Top-20 more than once and the most popular in the Game Week was the one with all attacking slots filled.

Defensive Stacks

The number of different teams top-20 managers picked players from

After the reinstallation of 3-man cap in the EPL events, it is quite natural to see that almost all successful teams this gameweek use 3 different teams - the minimum amount possible.

Pursuit Bonus

Captains (Top-20 and Overall)

Vice-captains (Top-20 )

Most owned picks (15%+ ownership in Weekly Monster)