Here’s my rating of the fantasy premier league defences based on an underlying stats analysis. I’ve done it differently this time and 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
2. Manchester City Home – Nastasic £5.6m
3. Manchester City Away
4. Arsenal Home – Gibbs £5.4m
5. Stoke Home – Cameron £4.8m
6. Chelsea Home – Cole £6.5m
7. Everton Home – Jagielka £6.0m
8. Manchester United Home – who knows? Evra £6.8m Ferdy £5.9m with game time risk
9 Aston Villa Home – Clark £4.4m
10. Tottenham Home – Gallas £5.0m
11. Norwich Home – Turner £4.1m or GK Bunn £4.0m
12 Liverpool Away
13. Sunderland Home – Cuellar £4.6m
14. Arsenal Away
15. Fulham Home – Hughes £4.5m
16. QPR Home – Nelsen £4.0m
17. Everton Away
18. Tottenham Away
19. Chelsea Away
20. West Ham Home – O’Brien £4.3m
21. Southampton H – Clyne £4.0m
22. Wigan Away
23. WBA Home – OLsson £5.1m
24. West Ham A
25. Stoke Away
26. Manchester Utd Away
27. Wigan Home – Stam £3.8m
28. Swansea Home – Davies £4.1m
29. Norwich Away
30. Newcastle Home – Williamson £4.3m
31. WBA Away
32. Fulham Away
33. Newcastle Away
34. Swansea Away
35. Reading Home – Shorey £4.2m
36. Southampton away
37. QPR Away
38. Aston Villa Away
39. Reading Away
40. Sunderland Away
