Are you an FPL player looking for extra stats to help get your team out of trouble because you haven’t got either Son or Kane and are stubbornly refusing to take on Bamford, and/or looking for some advice on who to captain this week, or just chasing some Fantasy Football stats, well our Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 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, and usually something new every week.
Take a deep breath and get ready to enjoy our Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 Preview.
Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 – 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.
Son and Kane dominate the top captain’s picks and why shouldn’t they given their current form. Hard to pick between them, so perhaps their scoring records v Brighton is the difference if you have both. Kane has the better record v Brighton.
The whole scoring v opposition was been skewed by a Pulisic’s hat trick v Burnley last season which sees him lead that category by a mile and reduce the captain’s points for everyone else.
Pulisic would be higher, but is coming back from injury, so misses out of total FPL points/form for the time being. KDB too should be playing and scored against Sheffield United last season.
Grealish remains a thought, and could have scored plenty last week despite his team losing to Leeds.
Our Tip: Kane/Son if you have them or Salah. Left field: Pulisic – has to be Son or Kane. For those who don’t, Salah is at home, although West Ham isn’t the easy fixture is once was. Pulisic may be a good alternative choice.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Want just a few more stats on our top captain’s picks. Here we take the top FPL stats for a quick comparison for the top captain’s picks or sugestions.
Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 – KEY STATS
Here are the key FPL stats so far this season, broken down into some bite sized visuals.
KEY PASSES, CHANCES AND TOUCHES
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Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 – 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 first 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.
The next visuals have been split into the top 20 players for each position based on current FPL total points,.
OVERALL TOP TENS
FORWARDS
MIDFIELDERS
DEFENDERS
GOALKEEPERS
Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 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.
Fantasy Premier League FPL GW7 PREVIEW – GAME DIFFICULTY
Returning is our in-house Game Difficulty Rating for each team.
We take various fields of current form, form/performance relative to their opposition, and recent and historical H2H to determine a score out of 20. The higher the harder the game.
A few different views with a three and six game forecast, the overall look for the year, and a detailed look at the next four.
