Enjoying the Premier League season so far, or are you an FPL player looking for extra stats to help get your team out of trouble, or just looking for some advice on who to captain this week, well our 2020-21 FPL GW4 Preview is ready to help out.
Before each Fantasy Premier League game week we supply a bunch of statistics to hopefully guide the keen FPL player make a decision or two.
The most popular has been our Captain’s Table, which combines some key statistics to help make that crucial captain choice.
We also have our all new Captain Planner for the entire 2020-21 FPL season.
The data is evolving with 2020-21 season, and there’s a few new additions this week.
For now, enjoy the our 2020-21 FPL GW2 Preview.
2020-21 FPL GW4 PREVIEW – CAPTAIN’S TABLE
Here we assemble the finest stats we can think of to get the best picture of who should wear the armband for your team.
It is a mix of current FPL form, historical form v opponents, relative FPL performance and the difficulty of their upcoming game designed by our in house difficulty ratings system.
Each category is given a weighting, and points assigned relative to that high point. Each category score is totaled for he final score.
The final score is out of 100, with that high mark being a rare occurrence of aligning suns, moons and planets of FPL.
Man City players are down the list this week, like Man Utd players they are slightly disadvantaged by one less game. In addition to that, Man City players don’t have any previous scoring stats against Leeds according to our data, so miss out on that category too.
Of course Man City players are still worth taking, but they are away from home, and against a side which might put them under pressure early, which they didn’t like on a few occasions last season.
DCL and Danny Ings are new inclusions to the captain’s table, with the Everton striker going straight to the top of the pile with his recent scoring feats.
Mane has a great scoring record v Aston Villa which puts him at the top of this week’s table.
Vardy is on a hot streak though, and usually scores in runs, and is playing West Ham at home.
Our Tip: DCL/Vardy – scoring at the moment and both have the best home games of the above premium players.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Want just a few more stats on our top captain’s picks. Well help yourself below.
2020-21 FPL GW4 PREVIEW – FIXTURE DIFFICULTY
Here is our key FPL Fixture Difficulty rating for the next three games. This is updated weekly with 2020-21 form.
For the Full Fixture Difficulty Ratings – follow this link.
2020-21 FPL GW4 PREVIEW – OWNERSHIP CHANGES
Here are the key FPL stats so far this season, broken down into some bite sized visuals.
KEY PASSES, CHANCES AND TOUCHES
SHOTS AND GOALS
2020-21 FPL GW4 PREVIEW – POINTS PER COST – OVER/UNDER
A new data addition this week, and included in our Captain’s table is an attempt to check a player’s point scoring value, and relative to his peers.
So we take the overall FPL points scored and divide by their cost to get a figure. One we have used for the captain’s table from last season.
We then take it a step further a determine a figure for each position and band of a million FPL cost. E.g. a midfielder costing between 6.0 and 6.9 would be classed as a MID6.
A final comparison is made for each player’s Points per Cost to the standard set by the position-cost band and whether they are under or over. And the % over or under.
It’s an alternative way to see over or under performance to the cost.
The visuals below show the top ten for each position and then the relative over/under performance with their current cost and the size of the bubble is % of ownership.
They have been split into the top players for each position based on current FPL total points, with midfielders split around the 6.0 cost.
OVERALL TOP TENS
FORWARDS
MIDFIELDER OVER 6.0
MIDFIELDER 6.0 OR UNDER
DEFENDERS
KEEPERS
2020-21 FPL GW4 PREVIEW – OWNERSHIP CHANGES
Changes will no doubt be plentiful at the moment as FPL managers scramble to improve their sides from varying depth of performance so far.
Well the below visuals show the change in ownership this season so far, with cost and ownership % also added for your viewing.
Movement to the left or right of the middle means negative and positive movement of ownership change from GW1. The size of the bubble is the % of ownership. Y Axis follows the current cost.
FORWARDS
PREMIUM MIDFIELDERS
BUDGET MIDFIELDERS
DEFENDERS
GOALKEEPERS
