Here’s my rating of the fantasy premier league defences based on an underlying stats analysis. I have split out each teams home and away defence and ranked them separately as the differences are interesting. There’s also a marked difference in the 2 some times so to treat them as an equal ranking in assessing them just doesn’t work. I’ve put the best defenders name for each team based on value, game time security and attacking potential against the home defensive ranking. They are over the whole season so sometimes the results can be a little counter intuitive over recent games.
1. Liverpool Home – Johnson £6.4m, Wisdom £4.3m short term
2. Arsenal Home – Gibbs £5.6m
3. Manchester City Home – Zabaleta Home £5.9m
4. Chelsea Home – Luiz £6.6m
5. Manchester Away
6. Everton Home – Jagielka £6.0m
7. Manchester United Home – who knows? Evans £5.8m
8. Stoke Home – Cameron £4.9m Wilson if you want a risk £4.0m
9 Tottenham Home – Walker £6.1m Caulker £4.8m risk
10. Liverpool Away
11. Arsenal Away
12. Tottenham Away
13. Fulham Home – Hughes £4.4m
14. Southampton Home – Clyne £4.0m (injury doubt)
15. West Ham Home – Reid £5.1m Demel £4.0m risk
16. West Ham Away
17. Chelsea Away
18. Aston Villa Home – Clark £4.4m
19. Everton Away
20. Norwich Home – R Martin £4.1m
21. WBA Home – Ridgewell £4.9m
22. Wigan Away
23. Manchester United Away
24. QPR Home – Hill £4.3m
25. Sunderland Home – Cuellar £4.7m
26. Newcastle Home – Santon £4.9m
27. Swansea Away
28. Stoke Away
29. Wigan Home – Boyce £4.8m
30. Norwich Away
31. Reading Home – Gunter £3.9m
32. Swansea Home – Davies £4.2m
33. Newcastle Away
34. Southampton Away
35. WBA Away
36. QPR Away
37. Fulham Away
38. Aston Villa Away
39. Sunderland Away
40. Reading Away
