Here’s a quick fantasy premier league stats article with some tables looking at which players have the best expected goal information so far in the gameweek. This was written before C Palace v Liverpool
Fantasy premier league stats – who has the best underlying stats in GW2 so far
I thought FPL managers might find it useful as a check on how the players in their FPL team performed. It’s also on how your defensive players teams performed.
I’ve gone to the excellent site free site understat for the information
A few words on expected goals
Expected goals is a stat where the probability is evaluated that any given shot will end up as a goal.
Expected goals are based on a number of factors, such as where the shot was taken from and where the opposition defenders are at the time. The shot assumes it is being taken by someone of average ability in the league. To state the obvious , a shot from inside the 6 yard box in front of goal with no defenders around will have a very high probability it will end up as a goal. An 0.5 xG would mean a shot or accumulation of shots that would be a goal on 50% of the time.
In essence it shows you what should have happened rather than what has happened.
The same principle applies for expected assists.
The expected goals are now all wholly from the excellent free site understat.com.
The tables
The tables are self explanatory. There’s no commentary
The best non penalty expected goals (NPxG) stats
The table also includes their expected assists xA.
The best non penalty expected assists (xA) stats
Other players of interest NPxG and xA
The best subs
The Chelsea £10.5m Mid Hazard with NPxG of 0.11 and 0.31xA for 4 FPL pts in 27 minutes pitch time
The £9.5m Man City Mid Sane with NPxG of 0.56 and 0.00xA for 5 FPL pts in 12 minutes pitch time
Defence xG conceded
Here’s the list of defences in order of the least expected goals conceded
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