Here’s our fantasy premier league GW4 review where we look for the players with the best underlying stats from GW4
Fantasy premier league GW4 review – the best underlying stats from GW4
The article is in 2 parts. We’ve started with the attacking stats for the players divided by position. Effectively we’ve taken their Non Penalty xG stats and their xA stats and converted them into FPL points and then ranked them. We don’t show the points but that’s how they’re ranked. It’s far more useful than just ranking them by NP xG and xA separately. I’ve tried to include who I think has the best stats plus added on some notable players that people will be interested to see how they performed. I haven’t attempted to rank every player.
The defender rankings are the tricky ones to take anything from as CBs will get the occasional tap in from set piece goal mouth scrambles which will have a high xG.
The 2nd part is just the ranking of team defensive performance which is the rank by xG conceded. I’ve also included the GW4 fixtures so you can remind yourself who was playing if needed
Remember the stats are only for GW4 not cumulative. I haven’t done that yet as there’s not enough data to be meaningful. I’ll start around GW8
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Defender ranking
| Player | Club | Value | NPxG | xA | FPL Pts |
| Ake | Bournemouth | 5.0 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 1 |
| Yedlin | Newcastle | 4.5 | 0.47 | 0.00 | 7 |
| Monreal | Arsenal | 5.5 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 0 |
| Rico | Bournemouth | 4.5 | 0.00 | 0.83 | 1 |
| Cedric | Southampton | 4.4 | 0.00 | 0.68 | 12 |
| Mustafi | Arsenal | 5.4 | 0.27 | 0.12 | 8 |
| Alonso | Chelsea | 6.7 | 0.23 | 0.07 | 9 |
| Trippier | Spurs | 6.0 | 0.00 | 0.34 | 1 |
| Holebas | Watford | 4.7 | 0.05 | 0.23 | 10 |
| W Bissaka | C Palace | 4.1 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0 |
| Valencia | Man Utd | 6.5 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 7 |
| Shaw | Man Utd | 5.1 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 5 |
| Robertson | Liverpool | 6.1 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 5 |
| Mendy | Man City | 6.5 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 5 |
| A Arnold | Liverpool | 5.0 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Bellerin | Arsenal | 5.5 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0 |
| Chilwell | Leicester | 5.0 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 1 |
| Pereira | Leicester | 5.1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1 |
Midfield ranking
| Player | Club | Value | NPxG | xA | FPL Pts |
| D Silva | Man City | 8.5 | 0.64 | 0.72 | 2 |
| Sanchez | Man Utd | 10.2 | 0.20 | 1.01 | 5 |
| Salah | Liverpool | 13.0 | 0.45 | 0.31 | 2 |
| Elyounoussi | Southton | 6.4 | 0.50 | 0.15 | 3 |
| Fernandinho | Man City | 5.4 | 0.46 | 0.13 | 2 |
| Schurlle | Fulham | 5.9 | 0.46 | 0.10 | 7 |
| Maddison | Leicester | 6.5 | 0.25 | 0.44 | 5 |
| March | Brighton | 5.0 | 0.43 | 0.08 | 2 |
| Ghezzai | Leicester | 5.3 | 0.41 | 0.09 | 8 |
| Lingard | Man Utd | 6.8 | 0.33 | 0.07 | 3 |
| Pogba | Man Utd | 8.2 | 0.19 | 0.27 | 1 |
| Sessegnon | Fulham | 6.3 | 0.35 | 0.00 | 1 |
| Mane | Liverpool | 9.9 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 10 |
| Sterling | Man City | 11.0 | 0.27 | 0.07 | 10 |
| Seri | Fulham | 5.4 | 0.02 | 0.40 | 7 |
| Ramsey | Arsenal | 7.4 | 0.06 | 0.31 | 2 |
| Knockaert | Brighton | 5.5 | 0.00 | 0.41 | 6 |
| Hazard | Chelsea | 10.6 | 0.09 | 0.20 | 11 |
| Propper | Brighton | 5.0 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 1 |
| Moutinho | Wolves | 5.4 | 0.04 | 0.28 | 3 |
| Pedro (sub) | Chelsea | 6.7 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 6 |
| Gray | Leicester | 5.5 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 2 |
| Jota | Wolves | 6.3 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 3 |
| Walcott | Everton | 6.8 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 1 |
| Alli | Spurs | 9.1 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 2 |
| Eriksen | Spurs | 9.4 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Anderson | West Ham | 6.9 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 2 |
| Moura | Spurs | 7.2 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 5 |
| Sigurdsson | Everton | 7.4 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 2 |
| Ozil | Arsenal | 8.3 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 2 |
| Kante | Chelsea | 5.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Bernardo (sub) | Man City | 7.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1 |
Forwards
| Player | Club | Value | NPxG | xA | FPL Pts |
| Lukaku | Man Utd | 11.0 | 1.28 | 0.26 | 12 |
| Benteke | C Palace | 6.5 | 0.80 | 0.02 | 2 |
| Mitrovic | Fulham | 6.7 | 0.55 | 0.35 | 5 |
| Jesus | Man City | 10.4 | 0.66 | 0.00 | 1 |
| Aguero | Man City | 11.3 | 0.20 | 0.61 | 6 |
| Murray | Brighton | 6.5 | 0.59 | 0.00 | 12 |
| Austin (sub) | Southampton | 5.8 | 0.56 | 0.00 | 1 |
| Long | Southampton | 4.9 | 0.51 | 0.02 | 2 |
| Lacazette | Arsenal | 9.4 | 0.37 | 0.11 | 12 |
| Firmino | Liverpool | 9.5 | 0.40 | 0.03 | 7 |
| Ings | Southampton | 5.6 | 0.33 | 0.09 | 8 |
| Arnautovic | West Ham | 7.0 | 0.37 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Rondon | Newcastle | 5.9 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 5 |
| Kane | Spurs | 12.5 | 0.34 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Wilson | Bournemouth | 6.2 | 0.31 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Jimenez | Wolves | 5.5 | 0.27 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Deeney | Watford | 6.0 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 7 |
| Morata | Chelsea | 9.0 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Mounie | Huddersfield | 6.0 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 2 |
| Tosun | Everton | 7.0 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Aubameyang | Arsenal | 10.9 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 8 |
| Wood | Burnley | 6.4 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 2 |
| Gray | Watford | 6.0 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 2 |
Defences
| Team | xG conceded |
| Spurs | 0.44 |
| Man City | 0.55 |
| Everton | 0.58 |
| Watford | 0.58 |
| Huddersfield | 0.60 |
| Arsenal | 0.77 |
| Liverpool | 0.83 |
| Wolves | 0.89 |
| Chelsea | 0.95 |
| Man Utd | 1.06 |
| Bournemouth | 1.16 |
| Leicester | 1.20 |
| West Ham | 1.22 |
| Cardiff | 1.34 |
| Southampton | 1.37 |
| Brighton | 1.51 |
| Newcastle | 2.47 |
| Fulham | 2.69 |
| Burnley | 2.88 |
| C Palace | 3.08 |
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