Are you an FPL player looking for extra stats to help get your team out of trouble, looking for some advice on who to captain this week, or just chasing some Fantasy Football stats, well our 2020-21 FPL GW5 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.
And there’s plenty in between.
For now, enjoy the our 2020-21 FPL GW5 Preview.
2020-21 FPL GW5 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 goal scoring and assist form v opponents, relative FPL performance per their cost 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. However their ordinary starts to the season aren’t helping either. You’ll have to take them on faith. At least Man City have a great recent record v Arsenal in the league.
The two Spurs players top the table this week, but it comes with a concern. Spurs have only scored one goal and one point from their first two home games this season, and West Ham choked the life out of Leicester last GW and look capable of doing the same.
DCL is in hot form, and Everton are looking as good a chance as ever before of breaking their long winless streak against Liverpool featuring our table’s fifth pick Mo Salah. But another warning for this game….four of the last six games at Everton have ended 0-0, and the two others saw scorelines of 1-0 and 1-1. No recent history shows not many goals. Although Everton have never looked better. Salah is never quite as good away as home.
That leaves Jack Grealish, who was a major factor in an Aston Villa side that destroyed Liverpool last start.
Our Tip: DCL/Grealish – How can you tip against the Spurs players? Well their home record for the season so far is pretty bleak. But there’s a risk with DCL and Grealish too, as both face tough opposition.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Want just a few more stats on our top captain’s picks. Well help yourself below.
2020-21 FPL GW5 PREVIEW – KEY STATS
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 GW5 PREVIEW – POINTS PER COST – OVER/UNDER
A new data addition this season, 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
PREMIUM MIDFIELDERS
BUDGET MIDFIELDERS
2020-21 FPL GW5 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
