Season 27 Division 2 Stats and Facts review.
Espanyol +14VA +5PVA the stats winners.
Some big winners and some big not winners in D2. Espanyol were a potential relegation team at the start of the season but true grit, good management and transfers pushed them to promotion. Playoff team Wolfsburg had +10 VA and could have gained promotion over Espanyol had they slipped up. Internacional came 2nd in the league and 3rd in the stats. Other great over preforming teams were Augsburg on +10 VA, Everton on +6 and Atletico Madrid on +5. Arsenal did all they could and won the league.
At the wrong end. Flamengo who should have been promoted slipped to 12th and -9VA and the worse PVA, Liege on -11 VA managed to get relegated with a great squad with Malaga on -8 VA suffering the same fate. Anderlecht can also count themselves lucky on -7 VA to stay up.
There was a much bigger variation in D2. My total was 102 and the AI 100. The A.I was generally more optimistic about the over performing teams but not pessimistic enough with the underperforming teams.
| GK | DEF | MID | ATT | Top18 | Ave | ETOT | Pre | Fin | VA | PVA | |
| RCD Espanyol | 90.0 | 89.5 | 89.0 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 88.5 | 221.12 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 5.00 |
| Wolfsburg | 88.0 | 89.3 | 89.2 | 89.0 | 86.0 | 88.3 | 221.49 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 2.75 |
| SC Internacional | 91.0 | 89.0 | 90.0 | 91.0 | 85.0 | 89.2 | 223.47 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1.50 |
| Atlético Madrid | 90.0 | 89.3 | 89.0 | 90.0 | 83.0 | 88.3 | 221.86 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1.20 |
| Augsburg | 89.0 | 87.3 | 88.0 | 90.0 | 85.0 | 87.9 | 219.58 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 1.10 |
| Arsenal | 91.0 | 90.5 | 91.2 | 91.0 | 85.0 | 89.7 | 225.63 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 |
| Everton | 88.0 | 89.0 | 89.2 | 89.0 | 87.0 | 88.4 | 221.41 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0.78 |
| West Ham United | 89.0 | 89.3 | 89.8 | 88.0 | 87.0 | 88.6 | 221.56 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0.27 |
| Manchester United | 88.0 | 89.3 | 89.0 | 89.0 | 86.0 | 88.3 | 221.33 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0.13 |
| Boca Juniors | 89.0 | 86.5 | 87.0 | 95.0 | 82.0 | 87.9 | 221.07 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 0.11 |
| Cologne | 90.0 | 89.3 | 88.6 | 92.0 | 84.0 | 88.8 | 222.96 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 0.00 |
| Dinamo Zagreb | 90.0 | 88.5 | 89.0 | 89.0 | 87.0 | 88.7 | 221.09 | 18 | 20 | -2 | -0.05 |
| Real Madrid | 89.0 | 89.0 | 88.6 | 90.0 | 87.0 | 88.7 | 221.70 | 11 | 13 | -2 | -0.08 |
| Udinese Calcio | 89.0 | 89.5 | 88.8 | 89.0 | 87.0 | 88.7 | 221.61 | 12 | 16 | -4 | -0.19 |
| SL Benfica | 90.0 | 89.0 | 89.8 | 91.0 | 85.0 | 89.0 | 223.19 | 5 | 8 | -3 | -0.25 |
| Málaga CF | 88.0 | 89.0 | 89.2 | 90.0 | 87.0 | 88.6 | 222.06 | 9 | 17 | -8 | -0.41 |
| RSC Anderlecht | 89.0 | 88.8 | 89.0 | 92.0 | 85.0 | 88.8 | 222.88 | 7 | 14 | -7 | -0.43 |
| Stoke City | 90.0 | 90.5 | 90.4 | 90.0 | 87.0 | 89.6 | 224.46 | 2 | 6 | -4 | -0.50 |
| Standard Liège | 93.0 | 88.8 | 89.4 | 90.0 | 87.0 | 89.6 | 222.62 | 8 | 19 | -11 | -0.53 |
| CR Flamengo | 88.0 | 89.3 | 89.4 | 92.0 | 86.0 | 88.9 | 223.60 | 3 | 12 | -9 | -0.67 |