Atalanta deserved leaders in the stats and they win the league.

Finishing 3 places above expected Atatlanta have +4 PVA. They sit just above fellow promoted team Montpellier who have a VA of +9. However the teams with the highest VA are Besitkas and Seville on +10 , both made the playoffs although only Seville survived the first round. Athletic club the opponents of Seville sit on +6 VA and Newcastle get an honourable mention on +6 VA

Poor performances though from 4 of the top  6 predicted sides see that at the wrong end of the stats.  Kazan should have been 3rd but came 11th they have the joint lowest VA on -8 and lowest PVA on -0.64. Villareal should have made the playoffs but didn’t they also have -8 VA along with Marseille. Boca made the playoffs but their promotion hopes were blown out by Seville.

3 of the lowest 4 predicted teams finished in the lowest 4

  GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave ETOT Pre Fin VA PVA
Atalanta BC 87.0 87.0 87.4 89.0 86.0 87.3 218.13 4 1 3 4.00
Montpellier HSC 87.0 86.5 87.0 88.0 85.0 86.7 216.64 12 3 9 3.33
Besiktas JK 88.0 86.5 87.0 87.0 85.0 86.7 216.11 14 4 10 2.75
Sevilla 88.0 86.0 87.0 87.0 85.0 86.6 215.71 16 6 10 1.83
Athletic Club 87.0 87.0 87.2 87.0 84.0 86.4 216.43 13 7 6 1.00
Newcastle United 86.0 86.3 86.8 87.0 85.0 86.2 215.51 19 13 6 0.54
VfB Stuttgart 88.0 88.0 88.6 88.0 86.0 87.7 219.36 2 2 0 0.50
SS Lazio 87.0 83.8 86.4 89.0 80.0 85.2 214.01 20 17 3 0.24
Club Brugge KV 88.0 86.8 87.2 88.0 85.0 87.0 217.12 7 8 -1 0.00
Olympique Lyonnais 88.0 87.0 87.4 87.0 86.0 87.1 216.95 8 9 -1 0.00
FC Basel 87.0 86.3 86.4 88.0 85.0 86.5 215.96 15 16 -1 0.00
Chievo Verona 88.0 86.3 86.6 87.0 85.0 86.6 215.59 17 18 -1 0.00
PSV 87.0 85.5 86.8 88.0 84.0 86.3 215.52 18 20 -2 -0.05
Independiente 89.0 86.8 87.2 87.0 86.0 87.2 216.71 10 12 -2 -0.08
Spartak Moskva 87.0 86.3 88.3 87.0 86.0 86.9 216.91 9 15 -6 -0.33
Olympique Marseille 88.0 87.3 87.0 87.0 85.0 86.9 216.71 11 19 -8 -0.37
Santos FC 88.0 87.5 88.2 87.0 86.0 87.3 217.99 5 10 -5 -0.40
Villarreal CF 86.0 87.5 87.0 88.0 86.0 86.9 217.44 6 14 -8 -0.50
Boca Juniors 89.0 87.2 87.8 90.0 85.0 87.8 219.38 1 5 -4 -0.60
Rubin Kazan 88.0 87.5 88.2 88.0 86.0 87.5 218.64 3 11 -8 -0.64