Analysis of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) statistics for the 2016/17 season
Introduction
Fantasy Football is an online service that allows fans of the English Premier League to create their own personalized teams and compete against others, with their teams earning points based on the real life performances of their players. The following report contains a range of graphs and analytics to highlight some key statistics reported from the 2016/17 FPL Season.
FPL Value
At the beginning of each season each player is assigned a value (price) in relation to how valuable and important they are deemed to be for a team. When using FPL, users are given 100 million to create their squad, including their starting 11 and 4 substitutes. This gives users the freedom to spend their money on the players they want. The following chart displays the most expensive players at the beginning of the season.
Spread of Ages
This section looks at the distribution of players’ age in the Premier League.
Spread of ages across the Big 6 clubs
Nationality
The Premier League is one of the most attractive leagues to play in and watch, therefore attracts players from all over the globe. This section look at the amount of players who represent each region of the world.
- England - 156
- Europe - 207
- South America - 41
- Africa/Asia/USA - 56
FPL Points
The below table shows the top 5 players who earned the most points - both overall and showing the top U21 players.
| Name | Age | Points | Name | Age | Points | NA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Kane | 23 | 224 | Dele Alli | 21 | 225 | 1 |
| Alexis Sanchez | 28 | 264 | Leroy Sane | 21 | 105 | 1 |
| Romelu Lukaku | 24 | 221 | Anthony Martial | 21 | 95 | 1 |
| Eden Hazard | 26 | 224 | Marcus Rashford | 19 | 76 | 1 |
| Dele Alli | 21 | 225 | Alex Iwobi | 21 | 89 | 1 |
Spread of points earned by Big 6 clubs
Chelsea finished the season as champions, and it can be seen above where the majority of their players finished the season having scored 100 FPL points or more. There were 3 players for Tottenham who tallied 200+ points, which is reflected by them finishing runners up in the league.
Market Value Vs FPL Value
This section will look at the correlation between players’ real life transfer value and their FPL Value.
As shown above, there is generally a positive correlation between a players FPL Value and their transfer market value which is represented by the line of best fit. It is worth noting that there are a few outliers in this graph, showing that this correlation is not always true.
New Signings
This section will look at players who joined new clubs prior to the season - first ranking them on their transfer value and then on how many FPL points they earned in the season.
| Name | Club | Transfer Value (m) | NA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Pogba | Manchester+United | 75 | 1 |
| N%27Golo Kante | Chelsea | 50 | 1 |
| Sadio Mane | Liverpool | 40 | 1 |
| Leroy Sane | Manchester+City | 35 | 1 |
| Henrikh Mkhitaryan | Manchester+United | 35 | 1 |
| John Stones | Manchester+City | 35 | 1 |
| Gabriel Jesus | Manchester+City | 30 | 1 |
| Eric Bailly | Manchester+United | 30 | 1 |
| Shkodran Mustafi | Arsenal | 30 | 1 |
| Ilkay Gundogan | Manchester+City | 30 | 1 |
| Name | Club | FPL Points | NA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcos Alonso Mendoza | Chelsea | 177 | 1 |
| Sadio Mane | Liverpool | 156 | 1 |
| Georginio Wijnaldum | Liverpool | 149 | 1 |
| Fernando Llorente | Swansea | 146 | 1 |
| Christian Benteke | Crystal+Palace | 136 | 1 |
| Ashley Williams | Everton | 127 | 1 |
| Nathan Redmond | Southampton | 126 | 1 |
| Joe Allen | Stoke+City | 118 | 1 |
| Andros Townsend | Crystal+Palace | 116 | 1 |
| Paul Pogba | Manchester+United | 115 | 1 |
| Matt Phillips | West+Brom | 115 | 1 |
Top Point Scorers in Each Position
Top Irish Players
The last section looks at the top 5 Irish players based on their FPL points at the end of the season
| Name | Club | FPL Points | NA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seamus Coleman | Everton | 133 | Ireland |
| Stephen Ward | Burnley | 91 | Ireland |
| Harry Arter | Bournemouth | 84 | Ireland |
| Jeff Hendrick | Burnley | 76 | Ireland |
| Darren Randolph | West+Ham | 69 | Ireland |