Ola Hovde, the number in the world (Thread)

With half the season completed, I started to look at the number 1 in the world and how he has played

Ola Hovde has been number 1 ever since GW10 this season but what has he done to get there? What can we learn from it?

Some things I noticed while looking at his gameweek history:

Was 88th in the world after 126 points in GW2 after heroics from Kane , Son, DCL and Rodriguez

Played his wildcard in GW10 and has been number 1 ever since

Taken 2 hits all season (GW9 + GW19)

Previous ranks:

2013/14: 2 582 055
2016/17: 2 609 556
2017/18: 3 912 938
2018/19: 2 726 178
2019/20: 1 635 618

Favourite players throughout the season:

Justin GW1-
DCL GW1-11
Kane GW1-9
Son GW1-9
KDB GW10-
Bruno GW9-
McCarthy GW1-
Grealish GW5-
Dias + Cancelo GW10-

Captaincy:

Salah 7x
KDB 5x
Kane 3x
Son 2x
Bruno 2x

Total points: 342

Total points for myself (rank 478k): 266

Popular players he has never owned this season:

Pope
Martinez/Villa defender
Stones
Zouma
Chilwell
James
Rashford
Sterling
Aubameyang
Werner
Vardy
Ings/Adams

Summary:

What can we now see and learn from looking at all of this information?

Obviously Ola has got so many decisions and transfers right this season

Having players like Kane, Son, DCL, Saiss, Justin etc in his starting team evidently gave him a massive boost...

but how he has played since is what makes me really impressed especially his wildcard that was played at the perfect time in GW10 when that fixture swing for Spurs and Man City started.

Getting rid of players like Kane, Son, an injured Digne, Ziyech, Watkins etc and going...

with KDB, getting Salah back from his injury and Dias + Cancelo on double Man City defense is a major reason why he currently has a 24-point lead.

But obviously everything hasn't gone right for him. Benching Justin and Soucek on multiple occasions has made him lose a lot of...

points just like transferring in Zaha in GW3 after he had just scored 23 points and then only managing to get 3 points from him after getting rid ahead of GW5 when he then continued to score 22 points the following 2 gameweeks.

But overall it's incredible how excellent Ola's...

season has been. He has gone safe with captaincy and captained the obvious choice most of the time, he has been calm and taken 2 hits and had great timing with the use of his chips.

His previous ranks shows that he has never been nowhere near close to the top in FPL before...

and it's a very long season left but he has definitely put himself in a great position with a 24-point lead to win the entire thing!

Hopefully you have maybe learned something from this thread about how the number 1 in the world so far has played this year...

Could may be some parts that you and I can both learn from and take into 2nd half of the season