Season 27 Division 4 Stats and Facts.

Solid agreement on the top 3 in this division.

There is certainly a growing trend of 2 or 3 top teams followed by a close pack of teams. Napoli are favourites with the usual top and tail technique that works well in the lower divisions. Lokomotiv are a well-balanced outfit and they are just a little more solid in midfield to close rivals Celtic who should make up the top 3.

Liverpool or Monaco look set for 4^th or 5^th just a variation of keeper and attacking strength. Ajax look set for around 6^th spot, no big 90 ratings but a well-rounded squad maybe lacking a bit of depth. Palace are the first team with a big difference between me and the A.I., the weaker keeper is a major concern for the A.I. as is the lack of depth. Independiente is the A.I.s last playoff spot team and I can see why with a well set up balanced squad.  A can see Dynamo Moscow making a good cup run with their strength in depth. If you assume around 219 to survive D3 then they would be the last team who could get promoted and not immediately relegated again.

The two German sides Schalke and Bremen hold up the table, good enough attacks but defence and midfield lack enough depth to handle the better teams.  Lyon look to be in trouble half a point away from anyone else defence and keeper are too weak Then comes some disagreement, Feyenoord also are really vulnerable at the back I see them in 17^th spot, the A.I. says that Dynamo Kiev lack depth meaning their advantages in attack and midfield could come back to bite them.

What about possible outliers?  Palace are seen as attack heavy with a large depth gap possible low point of 15^th, Kiev may not even make 17^th if their lack of depth has a serious impact. Dynamo Moscow could go as high as 5^th   if that huge depth helps them out.

	GK	DEF	MID	ATT	Top18	Ave	ETOT	Pre	A.I
SSC Napoli	90.0	88.5	89.6	91.0	87.0	89.2	222.87	1	1
Lokomotiv Moskva	88.0	88.8	89.6	90.0	86.0	88.5	222.06	2	2
Celtic	88.0	89.0	89.0	90.0	86.0	88.4	221.78	3	3
Liverpool	88.0	88.3	88.6	90.0	87.0	88.4	220.98	4	5
AS Monaco	89.0	88.5	89.0	89.0	86.0	88.3	220.85	5	4
Ajax	89.0	88.0	89.0	89.0	85.0	88.0	220.33	6	6
Crystal Palace	86.0	87.5	88.2	91.0	85.0	87.5	220.23	7	12
Independiente	88.0	88.5	88.4	89.0	85.0	87.8	220.13	8	7
Paris Saint-Germain	85.0	88.3	88.2	90.0	85.0	87.3	220.06	9	10
Dynamo Moskva	87.0	88.5	88.0	88.0	87.0	87.7	219.28	10	8
Monchengladbach	87.0	88.0	88.2	88.0	86.0	87.4	218.92	11	11
ACF Fiorentina	88.0	88.0	88.8	87.0	86.0	87.6	218.87	12	9
Dynamo Kyiv	88.0	86.5	87.4	90.0	85.0	87.4	218.38	13	17
Fenerbahçe SK	87.0	87.8	87.6	88.0	86.0	87.3	218.24	14	13
Besiktas JK	87.0	87.8	87.4	88.0	86.0	87.2	218.08	15	14
Chievo Verona	88.0	87.5	87.4	88.0	86.0	87.4	218.00	16	15
Feyenoord	87.0	86.8	88.0	88.0	86.0	87.2	217.76	17	16
Olympique Lyonnais	87.0	86.5	87.5	88.5	85.0	86.9	217.37	18	18
Bremen	86.0	86.3	87.6	88.0	80.0	85.6	216.20	19	19
Schalke	87.0	85.8	86.8	88.5	85.0	86.6	216.17	20	20