Fantasy premier league – Rating the defences

fixture ease schedule, various

In anticipation of the fixtures tomorrow here’s my rating home and away of the fantasy premier league defences using a series of defensive stats from last year.  This is what I will use to put together my first fixture ease schedule of the new season over the coming week or so. It doesnt include the newly promoed sides at the moment but I will attempt to integrate them in to the fixture ease schedule.  The fixture ease schedule will be adjusted as signings change the rankings.  

Rankings 

Heres the list then:

1.  Liverpool home

2.  Manchester City home

3.  Chelsea Home

4  Arsenal Away

5.  Manchester Utd home

6.  Manchester City away

7.  Everton Home

8.  Stoke Home

9.  Norwich Home

10.   Spurs Home

11.  West Ham Home

12.  Manchester  United Away

13.  Chelsea Away

14.  Arsenal Home

15.  Sunderland Home

16.  Liverpool Away

17.  Swansea Home

18.  WBA Home

19.  Spurs Away

20.  Stoke Away

21.  Southampton Away

22.  QPR Home

23.  Everton Away

24.  Fulham Home 

25.  Swansea Away

26.  Aston Villa Home

27.  Wigan Away

28.  Newcastle Home

29.  West Ham Away

30.  Southampton Away

31.  Fulham Away

32.  QPR Away

33.  Reading Home 

34.  Sunderland Away

35.  WBA Away

36.  Wigan Home

37.  Norwich Away

38.  Newcastle Away

39.  Aston Villa Away

40.  Reading Away

Commentary

The 2 things that stand out are the Arsenal away defence and the Norwich home defence.  The commonly held myth that the Arsenal defence is a soft touch is a total myth.  Away from home they only conceded 14 goals in 19 games and recorded 9 clean sheets.  Both of those stats were the best of any team.  The key this year will be keeping Koscielny and Mertesacker together.  Buying a quality screening midfielder such as a deep lying Fellaini would give it extra strength.  At home they weren’t so strong, conceding far more with less clean sheets but they were far more open and attacking at home and this was an inevitable consequence

Norwich at home had a great start which tailed off.  It should be noted they kept United and Arsenal scoreless and recored 8 clean sheets at home.  Only Liverpool and Man City had more at home.

The third point was the dominance of Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool were on the stats.  10 of the top 16 rankngs were held by these teams home and away defences.  Finding value players in these teams (Sagna was £4.6m at one stage) is a key to fantasy premier league success.

Thats it, I like eveyone cant wait until the fixtures are released tomorrow

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