What you need to know for Gameweek 5
The key news and data in Fantasy Premier League
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Fantasy Gameweek. Let’s round-up everything you need to know for Gameweek 5 in Fantasy Premier League, including the news that matters and the key data from Impect, our data partner.
The deadline for transfers and changes to your team is 11am UK time on Saturday 16 September
Here are some key news stories this week:
-Trent Alexander-Arnold is injured and out this week. Story here
-Antony won’t play for Manchester United and Jadon Sancho probably won’t either. Doest that mean Alejandro Garnacho will? Could Bruno Fernandes play further forward? More here
-James Maddison was named Premier League player of the month. Story here
These are the fixtures for Gameweek 5:
These are the most transferred-in players in 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 - 2.59
Brighton - 2.53
Brentford - 2.45
Chelsea - 2.29
Aston Villa - 2.22
Bottom
Sheffield United - 0.89
Fulham - 1.05
Burnley - 1.1
Nottingham Forest - 1.2
Luton - 1.33
And here are the top five and bottom five for xG per game conceded
Top
Man City - 0.64
Arsenal - 0.98
Chelsea - 1.16
Brentford - 1.33
Crystal Palace - 1.36
Bottom
Fulham - 2.73
Bournemouth - 2.72
Luton - 2.62
Sheffield United - 2.33
Wolves - 2.19
Moving on to the players, these are the top-10 for Offensive Impect, which measures the attacking effectiveness of a player for their team:
Darwin Nunez - 100
Erling Haaland - 99.6
Evan Ferguson - 99.2
Taiwo Awoniyi - 98.8
Callum Wilson - 98.4
Harvey Barnes - 98.1
Mo Salah - 97.7
James Maddison - 97.3
Hee-Chan Hwang - 96.9
James Ward-Prowse - 96.5
And these are the leaders for post-shot xG. 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 - 4.84
Evan Ferguson - 3.92
Bryan Mbeumo - 3.38
Odsonne Edouard - 3.36
Abdoulaye Doucoure - 3.14
Mo Salah - 3.09
Solly March - 2.64
Dominic Solanke - 2.42
Matty Cash - 2.34
Heung-Min Son - 2.24
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:
Ivan Perisic - 14
Billy Gilmour - 13
Trent Alexander-Arnold - 13
James Maddison - 12
Bruno Fernandes - 11
Diogo Jota - 11
Raheem Sterling - 11
Sean Longstaff - 11
Mahmoud Dahoud - 10
Lucas Paqueta - 10
Harvey Elliott - 10
Alex Iwobi - 10
Phil Foden - 10
James Ward-Prowse - 10
Darwin Nunez - 10
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 - 33.7
Taiwo Awoniyi - 25.3
Callum Wilson - 24.7
Ollie Watkins - 20.6
Erling Haaland - 19.9
Odsonne Edouard - 17.7
Beto - 16.4
Evan Ferguson - 15.9
Mo Salah - 15.8
Neal Maupay - 15.4
Arnaut Danjuma - 15.4
Lastly, these are the top defenders for Offensive Impect, which shows the defenders who are getting involved in attacks and is therefore really useful for FPL:
Cristian Romero - 100
Pervis Estupinan - 99.1
Kristoffer Ajer - 98.1
Hannes Delcroix - 97.2
Emerson Royal - 96.3
Tim Ream - 95.4
Trent Alexander-Arnold - 94.4
Raphael Varane - 92.6
Matty Cash - 91.7
Axel Disasi - 90.7
Thanks for reading and good luck in Gameweek 5…
Graham
