What you need to know for Gameweek 3
The key news and data
Hello and welcome to Fantasy Gameweek’s round-up of the key news, FPL stats and data from Impect ahead of Gameweek 3 in Fantasy Premier League.
The deadline for transfers and changes to your team is 6.30pm UK time today
Here are some of the news stories that matter this week:
-Ollie Watkins scored a hat-trick and Lucas Digne got three assists as Aston Villa beat Hibernian 5-0 in the Europa Conference League. More here
-Man City have agreed a deal to buy Belgian winger Jeremy Doku for £55 million and are also interested in Wolves’s Matheus Nunes and Crystal Palace’s Ebrechi Eze. Story here
-Gabriel Jesus is back in training for Arsenal. More here
These are the fixtures for Gameweek 3:
These are the most transferred-in players in FPL this week so far:
And these are the top transfers-out:
Now for the key data for Impect, our data partner.
These are the top-5 and bottom-5 teams for xG per game so far this season. 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-5
Brighton - 3.42
Brentford - 2.9
Liverpool - 2.85
Aston Villa - 2.66
Wolves - 2.38
Bottom-5
Burnley - 0.66
Sheffield United - 0.75
Fulham - 1.16
Nottingham Forest - 1.5
Bournemouth - 1.55
Moving on to the players, these are the top-10 for Offensive Impect, which measures the attacking effectiveness of a player for their team:
Taiwo Awoniyi - 97.8
Solly March - 96.9
Antoine Semenyo - 96.6
Kaoru Mitoma - 96
Carlton Morris - 95.6
Erling Haaland - 95
Cristian Romero - 94.4
Pervis Estupinan - 94.1
James Ward-Prowse - 93.8
Luis Diaz - 93.5
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:
Bryan Mbeumo - 2.72
Solly March - 2.64
Mo Salah - 1.87
Yoane Wissa - 1.74
Neal Maupay - 1.67
Pape Matar Sarr - 1.66
Erling Haaland - 1.61
Luis Diaz - 1.56
Dominic Solanke - 1.52
Lucas Paqueta - 1.5
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:
Bruno Fernandes - 13
Raheem Sterling - 13
Antoine Semenyo -13
Mahmoud Dahoud - 12
Matheus Cunha - 12
Phil Foden - 12
Pascal Gross - 12
Ryan Giles -12
Rodri - 11
Pervis Estupinan - 11
Diogo Jota - 11
Reece James - 11
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 finds himself in with the ball:
Carlton Morris - 23.1
Taiwo Awoniyi - 23
Erling Haaland - 21.8
Arnaut Danjuma - 19.9
Ollie Watkins - 19.6
Dominic Solanke - 19.2
Marcus Rashford - 18.1
Yoane Wissa - 17.8
Mo Salah - 16.5
Danny Welbeck - 16.2
Lastly, these are the top-10 defenders for Offensive Impect. This shows the defenders who are getting involved in attacks and is really useful for FPL:
Cristian Romero - 98.4
Pervis Estupinan - 97.6
Serge Aurier - 96.8
Emerson Royal - 95.2
Kristoffer Ajer - 94.4
Axel Disasi - 93.6
Ben Chilwell - 92.8
Ameen Al-Dakhil - 92
Raphael Varane - 90.4
Rico Henry - 88.8
Thanks for reading and good luck in Gameweek 3
Graham