Ajax win the league and the stats.

+5VA pushed the Ajax team from playoff team to champions. A great performance from Moenchengladbach saw them come in 3rd with a +8VA, in the stats they just lead the other promoted team Liverpool who on +2 VA came 2nd in the league. Highest VA goes to Lyon on +10 , they just missed out on the playoff spots.  Big shouts outs to Bremen on +8 VA who climbed well safe of relegation, +6 Chievo who came 20th.

In a similar way to D3 two of the most underperforming teams Napoli and Celtic on -4VA and -6VA got into the playoff but were dumped out by Lokomotiv and Liverpool in the Semi-finals. Palace on -11VA were rightly relegated , isn’t hard to look beyond the keeper with them as 87 rated keepers are freely available.  Fenerbache will also be disappointed to be relegated on -6 VA where as Dynamo Moscow must count themselves lucky to avoid it.

Overall a middling level of variation +/- 4 per team, I again did slightly better than the A.I.  The A.I. correctly worked out Palace would finish much lower than I thought but did less well on the majority of the lower ranked teams, which does seem to be a theme.

  GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Ave ETOT Pre Fin VA PVA
Ajax 89.0 88.0 89.0 89.0 85.0 88.0 220.33 6 1 5 6.00
Monchengladbach 87.0 88.0 88.2 88.0 86.0 87.4 218.92 11 3 8 3.00
Liverpool 88.0 88.3 88.6 90.0 87.0 88.4 220.98 4 2 2 1.50
Olympique Lyonnais 87.0 86.5 87.5 88.5 85.0 86.9 217.37 18 8 10 1.38
Bremen 86.0 86.3 87.6 88.0 80.0 85.6 216.20 19 11 8 0.82
Chievo Verona 88.0 87.5 87.4 88.0 86.0 87.4 218.00 16 10 6 0.70
Paris Saint-Germain 85.0 88.3 88.2 90.0 85.0 87.3 220.06 9 7 2 0.43
Besiktas JK 87.0 87.8 87.4 88.0 86.0 87.2 218.08 15 14 1 0.14
Feyenoord 87.0 86.8 88.0 88.0 86.0 87.2 217.76 17 16 1 0.13
Schalke 87.0 85.8 86.8 88.5 85.0 86.6 216.17 20 19 1 0.11
Dynamo Kyiv 88.0 86.5 87.4 90.0 85.0 87.4 218.38 13 13 0 0.08
AS Monaco 89.0 88.5 89.0 89.0 86.0 88.3 220.85 5 6 -1 0.00
ACF Fiorentina 88.0 88.0 88.8 87.0 86.0 87.6 218.87 12 17 -5 -0.24
Lokomotiv Moskva 88.0 88.8 89.6 90.0 86.0 88.5 222.06 2 4 -2 -0.25
Independiente 88.0 88.5 88.4 89.0 85.0 87.8 220.13 8 12 -4 -0.25
Fenerbahçe SK 87.0 87.8 87.6 88.0 86.0 87.3 218.24 14 20 -6 -0.25
Dynamo Moskva 87.0 88.5 88.0 88.0 87.0 87.7 219.28 10 15 -5 -0.27
Celtic 88.0 89.0 89.0 90.0 86.0 88.4 221.78 3 9 -6 -0.56
Crystal Palace 86.0 87.5 88.2 91.0 85.0 87.5 220.23 7 18 -11 -0.56
SSC Napoli 90.0 88.5 89.6 91.0 87.0 89.2 222.87 1 5 -4 -0.60