Swans sail away majestically with 1st in league best VA and PVA in division.

Always a strong favourite to over perform with a lethal attack Swansea never the less finished 6 places above expected. Playoff bound palace 2nd in the stats with a VA of +6 are ranked just above Zagreb who came in 2nd in the league.  Another team with +6 VA is Dnipro; while finishing 9th they should have been 15th so a return to form to the overperformers of the past.  A shout out to Beddows and Sampdoria who on +4VA were the other notable over achievers.

It all went wrong for Liege who just escaped relegation on -9 VA and Galatasaray who didn’t also on – 9 VA.  Borussia Monchengladbach also fell into the relegation hole on -6 VA.  The top of the table was fairly close to what was predicted and lower down there was a fair correlation with the predicted relegation teams usually 2 to 3 places higher if they escaped.

  GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave ETOT Pre Fin VA PVA
Swansea City 87.0 88.3 88.6 91.0 87.0 88.4 221.51 7 1 6 7.00
Crystal Palace 88.0 88.3 88.5 89.5 86.0 88.1 220.46 12 6 6 1.17
Dinamo Zagreb 89.0 88.8 88.6 91.0 86.0 88.7 222.03 3 2 1 1.00
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 88.0 87.3 88.8 88.5 86.0 87.7 219.21 15 9 6 0.78
West Ham United 89.0 88.5 88.8 90.0 86.0 88.5 221.34 9 7 2 0.43
Sampdoria 87.0 88.0 87.8 89.0 85.0 87.4 219.13 16 12 4 0.42
Cruzeiro 89.0 88.8 88.8 88.0 85.0 87.9 220.12 13 11 2 0.27
US Sassuolo 88.0 86.8 87.6 88.0 85.0 87.1 217.44 18 15 3 0.27
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 86.0 87.0 87.6 88.0 85.0 86.7 217.40 19 16 3 0.25
Hamburger SV 92.0 89.3 89.2 89.0 86.0 89.1 221.97 4 4 0 0.25
Tottenham Hotspur 88.0 89.0 88.8 89.0 85.0 88.0 220.85 11 10 1 0.20
FC Twente 87.0 85.0 85.8 86.0 83.0 85.4 212.90 20 19 1 0.11
VfB Stuttgart 89.0 87.3 88.6 88.0 85.0 87.6 218.76 17 18 -1 0.00
Sunderland 89.0 89.5 89.0 89.0 85.0 88.3 221.53 6 8 -2 -0.13
Málaga CF 88.0 88.8 89.2 89.0 85.0 88.0 220.97 10 13 -3 -0.15
Borussia Mönchengladbach 87.0 87.8 88.4 89.0 85.0 87.4 219.41 14 20 -6 -0.25
Internazionale 90.0 90.3 90.6 91.0 87.0 89.8 225.07 1 3 -2 -0.33
Flamengo 88.0 88.8 89.8 91.0 87.0 88.9 222.99 2 5 -3 -0.40
Galatasaray SK 88.0 89.0 89.4 89.0 86.0 88.3 221.45 8 17 -9 -0.47
Standard Liège 91.0 88.0 89.6 90.0 85.0 88.7 221.70 5 14 -9 -0.57