Historic FPL top scorers

[Archy]

Dino posted this on another thread and I thought it was worth its own thread as its an interesting read:

It did get me thinking though, where is Sanchez compared to the top points scorer in each season?

(sources: https://fpldiscovery.files.wordpress.co ... mteams.jpg (02/03 to 13/14) and FPL site (15/16 and 16/17)

16/17: Sanchez - 255 (and counting)
15/16: Mahrez: 240
14/15: Aguero: 216 (this could be wrong but it's what google tells me)
13/14: Suarez - 295
12/13: RVP - 262
11/12: RVP - 260
10/11: Nani - 198 (really? anyone know any diferent? This seems an outlier)
09/10: Lampard - 284
08/09: Lampard - 226
07/08: Cristiano - 283
06/07: Cristiano - 244
05/06: Henry - 239
04/05: Lampard - 269
03/04: Henry - 242
02/03: Henry 271

Have checked and Nani WAS the top scorer in 2010/11. Even more surprising was the person who came 2nd that year....any guesses (or comments on the list generally)?

[Joccki_10]

Tévez? Drogba?

Or another midfielder, Van der Vaart?

[Stemania]

I remember in the old consistant FISOers thread from a few years ago that there was a weird anomaly that a ridiculously high proportion of those managers had had easily their worst season in 10/11.

Nani being top scorer goes a long way to explaining it.

[Stemania]

Tévez? Drogba?

Or another midfielder, Van der Vaart?

VVD is a great shout.

I can't remember if Darren Bent's 27 goal season was that year?

Weird Chelsea might be a call too. Was that the mythical year of Florent Malouda per chance?

[From4corners]

Tevez or Baines, I think.

[Archy]

Nope no one close so far lol....it is a midfielder though....

[Paulista]

VVD is a great shout.

That must have been during Virgil van Dijk's long forgotten number 9 days

[Paulista]

Nope no one close so far lol....it is a midfielder though....

Fabregas?

[From4corners]

Odemwingie? He was fantastic for me one or two years though.

[Mav3rick]

That Charlie Adam season I bet, when he got the 3bps every game.

[Stemania]

Oh God, please don't say it's the deadline day camper. Great call f4c.

I remember him and a certain DJ Campbell being consistantly ridiculous one year!

[From4corners]

Was just going to write that as well! Him and DJ Campbell were on fire!

[tarkens]

Clint Dempsey?

[RuudTheDudeVanTheMan]

Walcott?

[Stemania]

Dempsey's another great shout there. Has to be either him or the Wingie, surely.

[dino1980]

Was just going to write that as well! Him and DJ Campbell were on fire!

IIRC that was the season Blackpool and Birmingham had a DGW. For that week I had Campbell and Zigic up front and I think I captained Zigic who got 0 or 1 points in that DGW.

[Stemania]

If it was the year of Blackpool then Charlie Adam can't have been miles off, another nice shout.

Can't quite see him coming second though.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Adam

[Archy]

That Charlie Adam season I bet, when he got the 3bps every game.

Mav first with the correct answer!

Charlie Adam it was...he had 12 goals, 8 assists and a shed load of bonus points too

[RuudTheDudeVanTheMan]

Oh it's Charlie Adam! 1st Nani 2nd Adam 3rd Mawouda 4th Dirk "Sloth" Kuyt

[Archy]

Nope no one close so far lol....it is a midfielder though....

Fabregas?

Consolation prize goes to Paulista.....my research also threw up the fact that Fabregas was joint highest scorer with Lampard on 284 in 2009/10.

[Stemania]

Amazing, nice one Mav.

Some fantastic alternative guesses too - shows how old we all are.

I'm just glad del Horno debacle eventually got lost in the ether. The veteran generation's Boselli.

[Archy]

I'm just glad del Horno debacle eventually got lost in the ether.

What debacle, was he injured?

[Stemania]

Ha, he was one of the real folklore characters from around the time I started fantasy football. Certainly it was before my own FPL days, I was a TFF guy for a few years before I saw the light.

My memory is very hazy, but I believe he basically came in to Chelsea, started like a freight train with CSs, goals and assists. Then just as every man and his dog got him in in the first few weeks games only for him to be ridiculously heavily rotated all season from then on.

I'm sure there are those who remember better than me. I can't even remember if I lived it or if I started the following season and just swam in the aftermath, it was that long ago, but it was certainly infamous for years afterwards in FPL and TFF.