Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Fantasy Gameweek. This is our round-up of everything you need to know for Gameweek 10 in Fantasy Premier League, including the news that matters and the key data from Impect, our data partner. There are no risers and fallers this week as Tom is ill.
The deadline for transfers and changes to your team is 6.30pm UK time on Friday 27 October - THAT’S TONIGHT!
Here are some of the key news stories this week:
-Erling Haaland, Mo Salah and Ollie Watkins (pictured above) all scored again during the midweek European matches. More details here
-You can find the latest injury updates ahead of the deadline by tracking what the Premier League managers say in their press conferences today here
-The weekend starts with Crystal Palace v Tottenham tonight. Roy Hodgson is manager of Palace at 76-years-old. Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou says he plans to be on a "Greek island somewhere" at that age. You can watch his comments here
These are the fixtures for Gameweek 10:
These are the most transferred-in players this week so far:
And these are the transfers-out:
Now for the key data from Impect, our data partner.
These are the top-five and bottom-five teams for xG per game so far. As a reminder, xG measures the quality of chances that a team creates by attributing a score to each chance based on the likelihood of it being a goal. For example, if the chance was certain to be a goal then it would get an xG score of 1. However, xG does not take into account the quality of the player with the chance or the goalkeeper they are facing. It just looks at the location of the chance and the number of players around the ball.
Top
Liverpool - 2.4
Newcastle - 2.23
Aston Villa - 2.19
Chelsea - 2.05
Brentford - 1.96
Bottom
Sheffield United - 0.88
Burnley - 0.92
Bournemouth - 1.12
Fulham - 1.18
Crystal Palace - 1.25
And here are the best five and worst five for xG per game conceded:
Top
Man City - 0.7
Arsenal - 0.91
Newcastle - 1.08
Chelsea - 1.18
Brentford - 1.31
Bottom
Bournemouth - 2.46
Sheffield United - 2.39
West Ham - 2.32
Luton - 2.06
Burnley - 1.95
Moving on to the players, these are the top-10 for Offensive Impect, which measures the attacking effectiveness of a player for their team when they are on the pitch:
Darwin Nunez - 100
Ollie Watkins - 99.6
Chris Wood - 99.2
Erling Haaland - 98.8
Heung-Min Son - 98.3
Mo Salah - 97.9
Callum Wilson - 97.5
Alexander Isak - 97.1
Hee-Chan Hwang - 96.7
James Maddison - 96.3
And these are the players with the highest xG….
Erling Haaland - 8.57
Ollie Watkins - 7.03
Mo Salah - 6.46
Bryan Mbeumo - 5.6
Alexander Isak - 5.14
Yoane Wissa - 4.31
Callum Wilson - 4.11
Carlton Morris - 4.05
Darwin Nunez - 4
Heung-Min Son - 3.56
Next, these are the post-shot xG rankings. Post-shot xG measures the quality of a chance after the shot has been taken, so it also takes into account the quality of the shot:
Erling Haaland - 8.63
Mo Salah - 6.71
Ollie Watkins - 6.36
Heung-Min Son - 5.56
Alexander Isak - 5.04
Bryan Mbeumo - 4.78
Abdoulaye Doucoure - 4.29
Evan Ferguson - 4.19
Bukayo Saka - 3.97
Douglas Luiz - 3.9
Next, these are the top-10 players for bypassed defenders, which measures how many opposition defenders a player takes out of the game with their passing or dribbling. It is a way to track a player’s attacking impact in a game:
Kieran Trippier - 10
Billy Gilmour - 10
Trent Alexander-Arnold - 10
James Maddison - 10
Pervis Estupinan - 9
Lucas Paqueta - 9
Bruno Fernandes - 9
Raheem Sterling - 9
Cheick Doucoure - 8
Marcos Senesi - 8
Now let’s see the top-10 players for bypassed defenders receiving, which measures how many opposition defenders were taken out of the game when a player receives the ball. It measures the quality of the attacking positions that a player gets themselves in with the ball:
Darwin Nunez - 24
Ollie Watkins - 19.9
Callum Wilson - 19.5
Erling Haaland - 17.9
Taiwo Awoniyi - 17.2
Odsonne Edouard - 16.6
Beto - 16.2
Chris Wood - 15.4
Dominic Calvert-Lewis - 15.1
Heung-Min Son - 14.3
Lastly, these are the top defenders for Offensive Impect, which shows the defenders who are getting involved in attacks, which is really useful to know for FPL:
Kieran Trippier - 100
Pervis Estupinan - 99
Jan Paul Van Hecke - 98
Cristian Romero - 97
Sven Botman - 96
Lewis Dunk - 94.9
Virgil Van Dijk - 93.9
Raphael Varane - 92.9
Trent Alexander-Arnold - 91.9
Matty Cash - 90.9
That’s it for this edition. Thanks for reading and good luck in Gameweek 10…
Graham