Atalanta deserved leaders in the stats and they win the league.

Finishing 3 places above expected Atatlanta have +4 PVA. They sit just above fellow promoted team Montpellier who have a VA of +9. However the teams with the highest VA are Besitkas and Seville on +10 , both made the playoffs although only Seville survived the first round. Athletic club the opponents of Seville sit on +6 VA and Newcastle get an honourable mention on +6 VA

Poor performances though from 4 of the top  6 predicted sides see that at the wrong end of the stats.  Kazan should have been 3rd but came 11th they have the joint lowest VA on -8 and lowest PVA on -0.64. Villareal should have made the playoffs but didn’t they also have -8 VA along with Marseille. Boca made the playoffs but their promotion hopes were blown out by Seville.

3 of the lowest 4 predicted teams finished in the lowest 4

 GKDEFMIDATTTop18AveETOTPreFinVAPVA
Atalanta BC87.087.087.489.086.087.3218.134134.00
Montpellier HSC87.086.587.088.085.086.7216.6412393.33
Besiktas JK88.086.587.087.085.086.7216.11144102.75
Sevilla88.086.087.087.085.086.6215.71166101.83
Athletic Club87.087.087.287.084.086.4216.4313761.00
Newcastle United86.086.386.887.085.086.2215.51191360.54
VfB Stuttgart88.088.088.688.086.087.7219.362200.50
SS Lazio87.083.886.489.080.085.2214.01201730.24
Club Brugge KV88.086.887.288.085.087.0217.1278-10.00
Olympique Lyonnais88.087.087.487.086.087.1216.9589-10.00
FC Basel87.086.386.488.085.086.5215.961516-10.00
Chievo Verona88.086.386.687.085.086.6215.591718-10.00
PSV87.085.586.888.084.086.3215.521820-2-0.05
Independiente89.086.887.287.086.087.2216.711012-2-0.08
Spartak Moskva87.086.388.387.086.086.9216.91915-6-0.33
Olympique Marseille88.087.387.087.085.086.9216.711119-8-0.37
Santos FC88.087.588.287.086.087.3217.99510-5-0.40
Villarreal CF86.087.587.088.086.086.9217.44614-8-0.50
Boca Juniors89.087.287.890.085.087.8219.3815-4-0.60
Rubin Kazan88.087.588.288.086.087.5218.64311-8-0.64

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