fantasy premier league midfielders GW30 player rankings

Here’s our fantasy premier league midfielders GW30 player rankings article. There’s a table of stats to help and a spreadsheet that can be filtered how you like to help you make a transfer choice

fantasy premier league midfielders GW30 player rankings

This is the 2nd article in the player rankings series. There’s also defenders and GKs rankings

All the stats are from the free site understat

Methodology

The ranking is entirely objective and Maths based. I’ve ordered the players by their underlying stats ranking when I convert their xG and xA over the last 10 gameweeks into FPL points for goals and assists. That figure is adjusted for the average minutes played over the last 10 gameweeks.

I’ve then provided a range of different stats to help you choose which player is the best for a transfer in.

Stats definitions

Form s/10/5. These are the form rankings for season, for the last 10 gameweeks and the last 5 game weeks. They are the average minutes adjusted rankings once the xG and xA are converted into FPL points. The lower the number the better the ranking.

Av minutes: The average minutes played in the last 10 gameweeks. Non appearances aren’t counted.

PPM – the fantasy premier league sites points per match.

Fixture ease: This is the ranking of how easy the fixtures are over the next 4 gameweeks.  Due to the uncertainty of fixtures in GW34 which could house the postponed games then I have only gone to GW33

GW31 This states if they have a fixture in the blank GW31

ATGS: the anytime goal scorer bookies odds for GW30 for £1 invested.

VFM: A Value for Money calculation by dividing the theoretical season goal and assist points by the players value. The higher the better.

The schedule ranked by midfielders underlying stats over the last 10 gameweeks

Here is the link to the google spreadsheet. You can go to file>make a copy and then sort it how you like.

The schedule is not adjusted for fixtures.  360 minutes in last 10 gameweeks required.

Players not in the schedule

injury and suspension related

Son, Hudson Odoi and Bergwijn

Jorginho is suspended

gametime issues

Walcott, Gundogan, Bernard, H Wilson and Pereira aren’t in there due to lack of gametime security

A few words on specific players

Remember the ranking is entirely objective. It turns underlying stats by average minutes into theoretical FPL points

I’ve kept De Bruyne in as it seems he’s fit.  Whether he will play GW30 is another matter.  De Bruyne is low in the rankings than you’d expect but he is a player who regularly over performs his underlying stats so it does’t reflect his true position.

Bruno Fernandes stats are still a bit distorted positively by the penalty he’s got so early in his start with Man Utd. It’s made his XG higher than it would be expected to be but it is getting closer to what I would normally expect as a penalty duty bounce.

Bowen of West Ham has excellent stats albeit on 185 minutes only played so he doesn’t show up in the 10 gameweek ranking.  He looks like he could hold his place

Ross Barkley’s stats are also very good but again on 198 minutes played.  Lampard is chopping and changing at the moment which makes his gametime security questionable.

Team xG per game ranking last 10 gameweeks

A fixture ease schedule for attacking players

Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the defences they face over the next 4 gameweeks. There’s attacking player suggestions below.

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