Bilboko Athletic Kluba estatistikaren txapelduna.

In honour of my wife and kids basque heritage, indeed Athletic club were the champions of the stats. +11 VA and +6 PVA leading to automatic promotion as part of a long term project.  They are narrowly ahead of Kazan and PSV on +7 and +8 VA , the two playoff finalists (sounds familiar over achieving teams triumphing in the playoff while underachieving higher rank teams fail ).

Valencia were the hot favourites all year and can relax into D4 life knowing they are more than likely to go up again.  Big positive scores go to Shaktar on +5 and Bordeaux on +6 VA showing that managerial skill plays an important part still.

No relegation of course so who stats wise did the worse.  Brugge hold that record with -10 VA, they should have been playoff bound but narrowly avoided the sack race. Celta did little better with -7VA, Olympiacos and Spartak also did worse than expected.

3 of the lowest 4 landed where they should with 5th worse team Sassuolo joining them.

A middle level of variaion in D5 , I out did the A.I. again by around 4 pts total.  Once again the A.I. slipped up more predicting under performing teams.