2018-19 Championship Season Review

Another action packed Championship season draws to a close. Norwich City, Sheffield United and one other will playing Premier League football season, whereas at the other end Bolton Wanderers, Ipswich Town and Rotherham United faced the dreaded relegation into the third tier of English football.

Here’s my review of the season utilising everybody’s favourite football analytical metric – Expected Goals (or xG).

NOTE: For those not familiar with xG this is a metric to monitor the quality of goalscoring chances. A value between 0 and 1 is assigned based on the probability the chance will result in a goal. A 1 in 20 long range shot with have a probability of 5% (an xG of 0.05) whereas a penalty has a 3 in 4 expectancy and therefore an xG of 0.75.

League Table

Over the course of the season my xG model has aligned very closely to the actual table. The top three are consistent across both albeit I rate Leeds United as the strongest team in the league. It’s hard to argue Sheffield United (xG ranked 2nd) and Norwich City (3rd) haven’t deserved automatic promotion with their contrasting styles though.

West Bromwich Albion (4th) and Aston Villa (5th) are worthy of their play off spots, however Derby County (15th) appear to have been fortunate.

At the bottom it suggests Millwall (7th) should have been one place outside of the playoffs rather than relegation. The bottom three of Rotherham United (21st), Bolton Wanderers (22nd) and Ipswich Town (24th) all performed poorly with Reading (23rd) fortunate to survive.

It’s worth noting Rotherham United look considerably better on my xG model than the other two and they would be my pick to perform best next season at this early stage albeit both Bolton and Ipswich are likely to have greater budgets in the summer.

	Team	GF	GA	GD	Pts	xGF	xGA	xGD	xPts	Rank
1	Norwich City	93	57	36	94	76	59	17	72.3	3
2	Sheffield United	78	41	37	89	75	46	29	78.6	2
3	Leeds United	73	50	23	83	80	43	37	82.2	1
4	West Bromwich Albion	87	62	25	80	76	63	13	69.2	4
5	Aston Villa	82	61	21	76	75	62	13	69.2	5
6	Derby County	69	54	15	74	59	65	-6	61.0	15
7	Middlesbrough	49	41	8	73	68	63	5	66.4	9
8	Bristol City	59	53	6	70	64	61	3	65.2	11
9	Nottingham Forest	61	54	7	66	59	67	-8	60.4	16
10	Swansea City	65	62	3	65	69	60	9	66.5	8
11	Brentford	73	59	14	64	66	52	14	68.8	6
12	Sheffield Wednesday	60	62	-2	64	58	65	-7	59.2	19
13	Hull City	66	68	-2	62	59	69	-10	56.6	20
14	Preston North End	67	67	0	61	62	65	-3	59.5	12
15	Blackburn Rovers	64	69	-5	60	67	68	-1	63.0	18
16	Stoke City	45	52	-7	55	52	58	-6	60.2	13
17	Birmingham City	64	58	6	52	60	59	1	64.1	17
18	Wigan Athletic	51	64	-13	52	68	69	0	62.2	14
19	Queens Park Rangers	53	71	-18	51	64	62	1	65.4	10
20	Reading	49	66	-17	47	49	85	-36	44.6	23
21	Millwall	48	64	-16	44	69	58	10	67.7	7
22	Rotherham United	52	83	-31	40	64	78	-13	55.5	21
23	Bolton Wanderers	29	78	-49	32	44	68	-24	46.8	22
24	Ipswich Town	36	77	-41	31	46	83	-37	44.2	24

The remainder of the article is a club-by-club review focusing on five areas:

• Performance by Match – A graphical representation of the xG created and conceded by match day. Useful to highlight sections of the season the team performed particularly well/poor. The colour coding at the top indicating the actual match result.
• Performance by Formation – A table to show actual and expected points based on the starting formation used. Useful context to see teams which have a distinct set up and which teams tinkered regularly during the season.
• Performance by Manager – A table to show actual and expected points by manager for those teams who made a change during the season.
• Attacking Performance by Player – A table to show actual and expected goal involvement by player.
• Overall Performance by Player – A new concept to me which attempts to demonstrate the influence a player has to the team by assessing the actual and expected performance when the player featured and when the player was absent.

Aston Villa (Actual 5th, xG 5th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-3-3	9	1.9	1.8
4-4-1-1	9	1.8	1.6
4-1-4-1	17	1.6	1.4
Unknown	6	1.5	1.2
4-4-2 (Classic)	3	1.3	1.7
4-2-3-1	2	1.0	1.1

Performance by Manager

Dean Smith had the exact impact the Villa fans would have hoped for. Still would have fallen just short if Smith had been in charge for the whole season.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Steve Bruce	11	1.4	13th	1.3	18th
Kevin MacDonald	1	0.0		0.7
Dean Smith	34	1.8	4th	1.6	3rd

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Tammy Abraham	37	3150	28	25	3	20.9	2.5	0.60	0.07
Conor Hourihane	43	3084	18	7	11	6.3	10.1	0.18	0.29
John McGinn	40	3464	15	6	9	6.9	6.9	0.18	0.18
Jack Grealish	31	2698	12	6	6	4.7	6.1	0.16	0.20
Anwar El Ghazi	31	2183	11	5	6	4.9	5.6	0.20	0.23
Jonathan Kodjia	39	2021	11	9	2	7.7	2.2	0.34	0.10
Ahmed Elmohamady	38	2945	9	2	7	1.8	4.5	0.05	0.14
Albert Adomah	35	1861	6	4	2	3.8	4.0	0.19	0.20
Yannick Bolasie	21	953	6	2	4	2.6	3.2	0.24	0.30
James Chester	28	2520	5	5	0	2.8	0.1	0.10	0.00

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Those who have doubts over Jack Grealish appear unfounded. Villa had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 P) of 0.90 when he was on the pitch compared to -0.37 without him (GDp90 NP) for an actual difference of 1.28.

Tammy Abraham another one with a strong impact, 0.72 actual difference and 0.57 xGD difference, and will hopefully get a shot in the Premier League next season.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	21	0.46			12.9	0.28
John McGinn	3464	15	0.39	0.80	-0.41	10.1	0.26	0.37	-0.11
Tammy Abraham	3150	22	0.63	-0.09	0.72	14.6	0.42	-0.16	0.57
Conor Hourihane	3084	18	0.53	0.26	0.27	9.4	0.27	0.30	-0.02
Ahmed Elmohamady	2945	18	0.55	0.23	0.32	8.9	0.27	0.31	-0.03
Alan Hutton	2874	2	0.06	1.35	-1.29	3.2	0.10	0.69	-0.59
Jack Grealish	2698	27	0.90	-0.37	1.28	12.6	0.42	0.02	0.40
James Chester	2520	8	0.29	0.72	-0.44	7.9	0.28	0.28	0.00
Neil Taylor	2473	18	0.66	0.16	0.49	12.5	0.46	0.02	0.43
Anwar El Ghazi	2183	15	0.62	0.28	0.34	9.6	0.40	0.15	0.25
Axel Tuanzebe	2096	9	0.39	0.53	-0.14	7.1	0.31	0.25	0.05
vòrjan Nyland	2070	7	0.30	0.61	-0.30	5.2	0.23	0.34	-0.11
Glenn Whelan	2054	10	0.44	0.47	-0.04	8.5	0.37	0.19	0.18
Jonathan Kodjia	2021	4	0.18	0.72	-0.54	1.8	0.08	0.47	-0.39
Albert Adomah	1861	15	0.73	0.24	0.49	11.0	0.53	0.08	0.45
Jed Steer	1395	19	1.23	0.07	1.16	9.7	0.62	0.11	0.52
Tyrone Mings	1350	14	0.93	0.23	0.71	4.3	0.29	0.28	0.01
Mile Jedinak	1129	-1	-0.08	0.66	-0.74	2.8	0.22	0.30	-0.08
Yannick Bolasie	953	6	0.57	0.42	0.14	3.6	0.34	0.26	0.08

 

Birmingham City (Actual 17th, xG 12th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-4-2 (Classic)	40	1.4	1.4
Unknown	6	0.7	1.3

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Che Adams	46	3740	26	22	4	14.7	6.5	0.35	0.16
Lukas Jutkiewicz	46	3824	24	14	10	14.2	5.9	0.33	0.14
Jota	40	2874	14	3	11	4.4	8.2	0.14	0.26
Jacques Maghoma	41	3024	11	6	5	4.7	4.3	0.14	0.13
Michael Morrison	43	3831	8	7	1	4.3	1.3	0.10	0.03
Connor Mahoney	29	1501	6	2	4	1.9	4.0	0.11	0.24
Gary Gardner	40	3258	5	2	3	4.4	1.7	0.12	0.05
Kristian Pedersen	39	3494	3	1	2	0.4	1.3	0.01	0.03
Maikel Kieftenbeld	36	2944	3	1	2	0.9	0.9	0.03	0.03
Craig Gardner	21	738	2	1	1	1.8	0.9	0.22	0.11

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

A small concentration of players have played the majority of the minutes. Lee Camp and Lukas Jutkiewicz the stand out performers for both actual and xGD difference.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	6	0.13			1.4	0.03
Lee Camp	3960	7	0.16	-0.50	0.66	2.9	0.07	-0.74	0.80
Harlee Dean	3883	4	0.09	0.70	-0.61	1.0	0.02	0.14	-0.11
Michael Morrison	3831	7	0.16	-0.29	0.46	0.5	0.01	0.25	-0.24
Lukas Jutkiewicz	3824	9	0.21	-0.85	1.07	2.9	0.07	-0.44	0.51
Maxime Colin	3793	11	0.26	-1.30	1.56	1.7	0.04	-0.08	0.12
Che Adams	3740	4	0.10	0.45	-0.35	1.7	0.04	-0.08	0.12
Kristian Pedersen	3494	-2	-0.05	1.11	-1.17	1.6	0.04	-0.03	0.07
Gary Gardner	3258	8	0.22	-0.20	0.43	2.6	0.07	-0.12	0.19
Jacques Maghoma	3024	11	0.33	-0.40	0.73	2.4	0.07	-0.08	0.15
Maikel Kieftenbeld	2944	7	0.21	-0.08	0.29	-2.6	-0.08	0.30	-0.38
Jota	2874	11	0.34	-0.36	0.70	1.8	0.06	-0.03	0.09
Wes Harding	1534	5	0.29	0.03	0.26	-1.5	-0.09	0.10	-0.19
Connor Mahoney	1501	-2	-0.12	0.27	-0.39	0.8	0.05	0.02	0.03
Craig Gardner	738	-1	-0.12	0.19	-0.31	0.0	0.00	0.04	-0.04
David Davis	688	-1	-0.13	0.18	-0.31	2.8	0.37	-0.04	0.41
Kerim Mrabti	620	-4	-0.58	0.26	-0.84	1.1	0.16	0.01	0.16
Charlie Lakin	437	0	0.00	0.15	-0.15	-0.6	-0.12	0.05	-0.17
Omar Bogle	359	0	0.00	0.14	-0.14	0.7	0.18	0.02	0.16

 

Blackburn Rovers (Actual 15th, xG 18th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
3-4-3	2	1.5	1.7
Unknown	6	1.5	1.7
4-2-3-1	35	1.4	1.3
3-4-1-2	1	0.0	1.9
4-4-1-1	1	0.0	1.8
4-3-3	1	0.0	1.8

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Bradley Dack	42	3454	22	15	7	18.2	5.2	0.47	0.13
Danny Graham	43	3030	19	15	4	10.6	4.1	0.31	0.12
Charlie Mulgrew	29	2383	10	10	0	5.5	1.0	0.21	0.04
Adam Armstrong	43	2853	8	5	3	6.2	4.7	0.20	0.15
Harrison Reed	32	2407	8	3	5	2.7	4.2	0.10	0.16
Amari i Bell	38	3204	4	3	1	1.7	1.6	0.05	0.05
Elliott Bennett	40	3402	4	1	3	2.0	3.7	0.05	0.10
Joe Rothwell	33	1542	4	2	2	3.6	2.7	0.21	0.15
Ben Brereton	24	677	2	1	1	1.7	1.0	0.23	0.14
Craig Conway	21	946	2	1	1	1.1	3.1	0.10	0.29

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Danny Graham has been the standout performer for Rovers this season. Blackburn have an actual Goal Difference per 90 mins of 0.21 (GDp90 P) when he’s played and -0.97 without him (GDp90 NP).

Darragh Lenihan is another one who has had a good season and has been missed when he’s not played based on both actual and xG performances. At 25 he still has the potential to improve further.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-5	-0.11			-1.0	-0.02
David Raya Martin	3682	-8	-0.20	0.59	-0.79	-0.3	-0.01	-0.13	0.12
Bradley Dack	3454	2	0.05	-0.92	0.97	-2.3	-0.06	0.17	-0.23
Elliott Bennett	3402	-5	-0.13	0.00	-0.13	3.5	0.09	-0.55	0.64
Amari i Bell	3204	1	0.03	-0.58	0.61	-1.9	-0.05	0.09	-0.14
Danny Graham	3030	7	0.21	-0.97	1.18	5.8	0.17	-0.55	0.72
Darragh Lenihan	2982	1	0.03	-0.47	0.50	2.1	0.06	-0.24	0.31
Adam Armstrong	2853	-6	-0.19	0.07	-0.26	-3.7	-0.12	0.19	-0.31
Corry Evans	2679	1	0.03	-0.37	0.40	0.8	0.03	-0.11	0.14
Harrison Reed	2407	-4	-0.15	-0.05	-0.10	-4.9	-0.18	0.20	-0.38
Charlie Mulgrew	2383	-16	-0.60	0.56	-1.17	-3.4	-0.13	0.12	-0.25
Ryan Nyambe	2312	-3	-0.12	-0.10	-0.02	2.4	0.10	-0.17	0.27
Richard Smallwood	2254	-17	-0.68	0.57	-1.25	-8.3	-0.33	0.35	-0.68
Derrick Williams	2222	-3	-0.12	-0.09	-0.03	-4.0	-0.16	0.14	-0.30
Lewis Travis	1775	6	0.30	-0.42	0.72	1.1	0.06	-0.08	0.14
Joe Rothwell	1542	-3	-0.18	-0.07	-0.11	0.9	0.05	-0.07	0.12
Jack Rodwell	1440	-2	-0.13	-0.10	-0.03	-2.0	-0.12	0.03	-0.16
Craig Conway	946	2	0.19	-0.20	0.39	0.4	0.04	-0.04	0.07
Kasey Palmer	775	-1	-0.12	-0.11	-0.01	0.4	0.05	-0.04	0.09

 

Bolton Wanderers (Actual 23rd, xG 22nd)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
Unknown	6	1.8	1.3
3-5-2	1	1.0	1.1
4-4-2 (Classic)	4	0.8	1.0
4-4-1-1	8	0.8	1.0
5-3-2	4	0.8	0.8
4-2-3-1	14	0.4	1.0
4-1-4-1	5	0.4	0.9
3-4-1-2	1	0.0	1.6
3-5-1-1	1	0.0	1.3
4-5-1	1	0.0	0.8

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Sammy Ameobi	30	2339	7	4	3	4.0	3.6	0.15	0.14
William Buckley	32	1841	6	4	2	4.2	1.6	0.21	0.08
Josh Magennis	42	2722	5	4	1	7.5	2.4	0.25	0.08
Pawel Olkowski	37	3099	5	2	3	1.2	2.0	0.03	0.06
Callum Connolly	16	1358	4	2	2	1.8	0.8	0.12	0.05
Gary O Neil	29	2047	4	3	1	1.5	4.0	0.06	0.18
Mark Beevers	32	2765	3	3	0	2.1	0.6	0.07	0.02
Clayton Donaldson	30	1592	2	1	1	3.7	0.5	0.21	0.03
Craig Noone	35	2226	2	1	1	2.6	3.3	0.11	0.13
David Wheater	33	2880	2	0	2	3.0	1.2	0.09	0.04

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

In a poor season, Josh Magennis has been a positive with the team performing better with him on the pitch. He’s scored 10 goals in both of his League One seasons and will be key to any success next year.

22 year old Joe Williams also catches the eye following his loan spell from Everton. It’ll be interesting to see who takes him next season but he appears to be capable at Championship level.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4050	-48	-1.07			-24.2	-0.54
Pawel Olkowski	3099	-29	-0.84	-1.80	0.96	-16.8	-0.49	-0.70	0.22
Jason Lowe	3017	-33	-0.98	-1.31	0.32	-17.3	-0.51	-0.60	0.09
David Wheater	2880	-31	-0.97	-1.31	0.34	-18.5	-0.58	-0.43	-0.14
Mark Beevers	2765	-33	-1.07	-1.05	-0.02	-16.2	-0.53	-0.56	0.03
Josh Magennis	2722	-22	-0.73	-1.76	1.03	-12.4	-0.41	-0.80	0.39
Joe Williams	2527	-29	-1.03	-1.12	0.09	-12.1	-0.43	-0.72	0.29
Ben Alnwick	2430	-26	-0.96	-1.22	0.26	-11.7	-0.43	-0.70	0.26
Sammy Ameobi	2339	-30	-1.15	-0.95	-0.21	-15.0	-0.58	-0.48	-0.10
Andrew Taylor	2252	-21	-0.84	-1.35	0.51	-10.2	-0.41	-0.70	0.30
Craig Noone	2226	-29	-1.17	-0.94	-0.24	-14.2	-0.57	-0.49	-0.08
Jack Hobbs	2117	-28	-1.19	-0.93	-0.26	-11.4	-0.48	-0.60	0.11
Gary O Neil	2047	-27	-1.19	-0.94	-0.24	-14.2	-0.63	-0.45	-0.18
William Buckley	1841	-17	-0.83	-1.26	0.43	-12.0	-0.59	-0.50	-0.09
Remi Matthews	1620	-22	-1.22	-0.96	-0.26	-12.5	-0.70	-0.43	-0.26
Clayton Donaldson	1592	-25	-1.41	-0.84	-0.57	-11.7	-0.66	-0.46	-0.20
Callum Connolly	1358	-22	-1.46	-0.87	-0.59	-10.4	-0.69	-0.46	-0.23
Marc Wilson	1233	-13	-0.95	-1.12	0.17	-6.8	-0.50	-0.56	0.06
Josh Vela	1147	-17	-1.33	-0.96	-0.37	-7.4	-0.58	-0.52	-0.06

 

Brentford (Actual 11th, xG 6th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
5-4-1	1	3.0	1.3
Unknown	6	1.8	1.8
3-4-3	20	1.7	1.7
3-4-2-1	2	1.5	1.5
4-1-4-1	1	1.0	0.5
4-2-3-1	15	0.7	1.3

Performance by Manager

Both actual and xG performances dropped following Dean Smith’s departure. The club still remains in capable hands with Thomas Frank though.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Dean Smith	12	1.5	9th	1.6	3rd
Thomas Frank	34	1.4	13th	1.5	7th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Neal Maupay	43	3713	33	25	8	23.6	4.8	0.57	0.12
Said Benrahma	36	2287	24	10	14	8.2	9.4	0.32	0.37
Ollie Watkins	41	3126	16	10	6	9.0	6.5	0.26	0.19
Sergi Canos	44	2195	14	7	7	6.6	4.1	0.27	0.17
Romaine Sawyers	42	3642	6	0	6	2.0	4.7	0.05	0.12
Kamohelo Mokotjo	35	2293	5	3	2	1.1	1.7	0.04	0.07
Henrik Dalsgaard	40	3572	4	2	2	2.0	4.9	0.05	0.12
Lewis MacLeod	17	975	4	3	1	2.0	2.3	0.18	0.21
Rico Henry	14	1074	3	1	2	0.9	1.0	0.07	0.08
Emiliano Marcondes	13	449	2	0	2	0.9	0.5	0.18	0.10

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

A number of players with positive seasons for the Bees. Ollie Watkins has always impressed me when I’ve watched him play and the numbers back up the eye. Brentford have an actual Goal Difference per 90 mins of 0.40 (GDp90 P) with him and -0.10 without him (GDp90 NP) for a 0.50 difference. Based on xG performance the difference is even grater at 0.80.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4050	13	0.29			13.9	0.31
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo	3752	14	0.34	-0.30	0.64	12.4	0.30	0.46	-0.16
Neal Maupay	3713	14	0.34	-0.27	0.61	12.9	0.31	0.27	0.04
Romaine Sawyers	3642	10	0.25	0.66	-0.41	12.2	0.30	0.38	-0.08
Henrik Dalsgaard	3572	7	0.18	1.13	-0.95	9.8	0.25	0.78	-0.54
Ollie Watkins	3126	14	0.40	-0.10	0.50	17.1	0.49	-0.31	0.80
Daniel Bentley	2955	13	0.40	0.00	0.40	12.1	0.37	0.15	0.22
Yoann Barbet	2693	11	0.37	0.13	0.23	14.8	0.50	-0.06	0.56
Kamohelo Mokotjo	2293	7	0.27	0.31	-0.03	8.9	0.35	0.26	0.09
Said Benrahma	2287	9	0.35	0.20	0.15	15.2	0.60	-0.06	0.66
Sergi Canos	2195	9	0.37	0.19	0.17	7.6	0.31	0.31	0.00
Moses Odubajo	2175	11	0.46	0.10	0.36	7.4	0.31	0.31	-0.01
Julian Jeanvier	2098	7	0.30	0.28	0.02	9.9	0.42	0.19	0.23
Chris Mepham	1943	1	0.05	0.51	-0.47	3.2	0.15	0.46	-0.31
Josh McEachran	1487	-3	-0.18	0.56	-0.74	-1.1	-0.06	0.53	-0.59
Luke Daniels	1080	0	0.00	0.39	-0.39	1.7	0.15	0.37	-0.22
Rico Henry	1074	8	0.67	0.15	0.52	3.6	0.30	0.31	-0.01
Lewis MacLeod	975	5	0.46	0.23	0.23	4.5	0.42	0.28	0.14
Nico Yennaris	897	-7	-0.70	0.57	-1.27	-0.1	-0.01	0.40	-0.41

 

Bristol City (Actual 8th, xG 11th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-1-4-1	14	1.9	1.4
Unknown	6	1.8	1.5
3-5-2	3	1.7	1.2
3-4-2-1	2	1.5	1.4
4-2-3-1	7	1.6	1.6
5-3-2	3	1.0	1.4
4-4-2 (Classic)	11	1.0	1.4

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Andreas Weimann	44	3348	15	10	5	8.6	4.5	0.23	0.12
Famara Diedhiou	40	3102	15	13	2	15.8	3.1	0.46	0.09
Jamie Paterson	41	2654	9	5	4	5.0	5.2	0.17	0.17
Josh Brownhill	45	4013	9	5	4	7.1	3.7	0.16	0.08
Matty Taylor	33	1200	9	4	5	3.4	2.8	0.26	0.21
Callum O Dowda	31	1801	8	4	4	3.1	3.4	0.16	0.17
Niclas Eliasson	33	1972	8	2	6	3.0	6.2	0.14	0.28
Jack Hunt	33	2713	6	1	5	0.5	2.6	0.02	0.09
Marlon Pack	46	4098	5	2	3	3.5	3.5	0.08	0.08
Adam Webster	44	3747	3	3	0	3.8	1.7	0.09	0.04

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

A mixed bag with Niclas Eliasson and Matty Taylor the two for have improved both actual and xG performance during their limited minutes. Both appear to be deserving of more time on the field.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	6	0.13			3.5	0.08
Marlon Pack	4098	4	0.09	4.29	-4.20	2.3	0.05	2.48	-2.43
Josh Brownhill	4013	4	0.09	1.42	-1.33	1.9	0.04	1.12	-1.08
Adam Webster	3747	2	0.05	0.92	-0.87	5.3	0.13	-0.43	0.56
Tomas Kalas	3406	5	0.13	0.12	0.01	2.4	0.06	0.13	-0.06
Andreas Weimann	3348	4	0.11	0.23	-0.12	-0.5	-0.01	0.45	-0.46
Famara Diedhiou	3102	3	0.09	0.26	-0.17	4.1	0.12	-0.06	0.18
Jack Hunt	2713	3	0.10	0.19	-0.09	2.9	0.10	0.03	0.06
Jamie Paterson	2654	0	0.00	0.36	-0.36	3.6	0.12	-0.01	0.13
Niki Mv§enpv§v§	2405	2	0.07	0.21	-0.13	2.8	0.11	0.03	0.07
Lloyd Kelly	2311	2	0.08	0.20	-0.12	1.8	0.07	0.08	-0.01
Jay Dasilva	2036	2	0.09	0.17	-0.08	5.2	0.23	-0.08	0.31
Niclas Eliasson	1972	11	0.50	-0.21	0.71	5.2	0.24	-0.07	0.31
Callum O Dowda	1801	7	0.35	-0.04	0.39	-0.1	-0.01	0.14	-0.14
Max O Leary	1285	1	0.07	0.16	-0.09	0.1	0.01	0.11	-0.10
Matty Taylor	1200	11	0.83	-0.15	0.98	3.3	0.24	0.01	0.24
Eros Pisano	1106	2	0.16	0.12	0.04	-0.7	-0.06	0.12	-0.18
Nathan Baker	923	-1	-0.10	0.20	-0.29	-2.2	-0.21	0.16	-0.37
Bailey Wright	843	-1	-0.11	0.19	-0.30	-3.7	-0.39	0.19	-0.59

 

Derby County (Actual 6th, xG 15th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
Unknown	6	2.0	1.3
4-3-3	22	1.8	1.4
4-2-3-1	17	1.4	1.2
3-5-2	1	0.0	1.9

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Harry Wilson	40	3186	18	15	3	9.6	5.2	0.27	0.15
Martyn Waghorn	36	2183	12	9	3	6.4	1.8	0.26	0.07
Mason Mount	35	3051	12	8	4	7.8	6.1	0.23	0.18
Jack Marriott	33	1860	11	7	4	5.9	1.8	0.29	0.09
Jayden Bogle	40	3485	10	2	8	1.8	5.1	0.05	0.13
Tom Lawrence	33	2627	8	6	2	5.0	4.0	0.17	0.14
Mason Bennett	30	1108	7	3	4	2.5	2.7	0.20	0.22
Bradley Johnson	27	2092	5	2	3	2.0	1.1	0.09	0.05
Craig Bryson	28	2120	5	3	2	2.3	1.2	0.10	0.05
Craig Forsyth	13	961	4	0	4	0.1	1.9	0.01	0.18

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Mason Mount has had a great season and has been hugely influential in helping the Rams to the last play off spot. Derby County have an actual Goal Difference per 90 mins of 0.65 (GDp90 P) when he’s played and -0.58 without him (GDp90 NP). The 19 year old has a big future and with the enforced transfer ban at Chelsea it will be interesting to see if he secures any minutes there.

Jayden Bogle and Scott Malone are the other pair who rank highly on the numbers.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	15	0.33			-6.4	-0.14
Richard Keogh	4122	15	0.33	0.00	0.33	-6.4	-0.14	-0.23	0.10
Fikayo Tomori	3791	11	0.26	1.03	-0.77	-5.7	-0.14	-0.18	0.04
Jayden Bogle	3485	19	0.49	-0.55	1.04	-0.1	0.00	-0.87	0.87
Harry Wilson	3186	18	0.51	-0.28	0.79	-5.3	-0.15	-0.11	-0.04
Mason Mount	3051	22	0.65	-0.58	1.23	-2.0	-0.06	-0.37	0.31
Scott Carson	2700	1	0.03	0.88	-0.84	-3.7	-0.12	-0.17	0.05
Tom Lawrence	2627	13	0.45	0.12	0.33	-7.1	-0.24	0.04	-0.28
Martyn Waghorn	2183	12	0.49	0.14	0.36	-4.1	-0.17	-0.11	-0.06
Craig Bryson	2120	5	0.21	0.45	-0.23	1.5	0.07	-0.35	0.42
Bradley Johnson	2092	12	0.52	0.13	0.38	2.4	0.11	-0.39	0.49
Scott Malone	2075	17	0.74	-0.09	0.82	2.0	0.09	-0.37	0.45
Tom Huddlestone	1883	7	0.33	0.32	0.02	-3.8	-0.18	-0.10	-0.08
Jack Marriott	1860	-1	-0.05	0.63	-0.68	-5.4	-0.26	-0.04	-0.22
Duane Holmes	1490	4	0.24	0.37	-0.13	-7.4	-0.45	0.03	-0.48
Kelle Roos	1440	14	0.88	0.03	0.84	-2.7	-0.17	-0.12	-0.05
Florian Jozefzoon	1287	-10	-0.70	0.79	-1.49	-5.5	-0.38	-0.03	-0.35
David Nugent	1134	6	0.48	0.27	0.21	3.5	0.28	-0.30	0.57
Mason Bennett	1108	13	1.06	0.06	1.00	3.6	0.29	-0.30	0.59

 

Hull City (Actual 13th, xG 20th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-5-1	3	2.3	1.4
4-4-1-1	30	1.6	1.3
3-4-2-1	1	1.0	1.4
5-3-2	1	1.0	1.3
Unknown	6	0.7	1.2
3-5-2	1	0.0	0.5
3-4-3	1	0.0	1.8
4-4-2 (Classic)	2	0.0	0.8
4-1-4-1	1	0.0	0.5

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Jarrod Bowen	46	3951	26	22	4	16.1	5.6	0.37	0.13
Kamil Grosicki	39	3005	21	9	12	8.7	12.3	0.26	0.37
Fraizer Campbell	39	2590	18	12	6	7.1	2.2	0.25	0.08
Evandro Goebel	23	1184	7	3	4	1.7	2.3	0.13	0.17
Jackson Irvine	38	3178	7	6	1	5.6	2.8	0.16	0.08
Jordy de Wijs	32	2631	4	1	3	2.8	1.5	0.10	0.05
Marc Pugh	14	819	4	3	1	2.4	1.2	0.26	0.13
Markus Henriksen	39	3441	4	2	2	2.5	2.0	0.07	0.05
Todd Kane	38	3213	4	3	1	1.3	2.4	0.04	0.07
Chris Martin	30	1402	3	2	1	3.6	1.3	0.23	0.08

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Jarrod Bowen hasn’t missed many minutes but the Tigers have been better with him. At just 21 years old he’s worthy of a punt from a non Top 6 Premier League team.

Reece Burke has had a good season on loan from West Ham and a strong pre-season may see him remain in London. If he’s out on loan again he’s likely to end up at a better team than Hull (sorry!).

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-2	-0.04			-9.7	-0.21
Jarrod Bowen	3951	0	0.00	-0.95	0.95	-7.2	-0.16	-1.19	1.02
David Marshall	3826	3	0.07	-1.43	1.50	-7.0	-0.16	-0.77	0.60
Markus Henriksen	3441	1	0.03	-0.39	0.41	-7.2	-0.19	-0.32	0.13
Todd Kane	3213	-8	-0.22	0.58	-0.81	-9.1	-0.26	-0.05	-0.21
Jackson Irvine	3178	-4	-0.11	0.19	-0.30	-11.9	-0.34	0.21	-0.55
Eric Lichaj	3163	-7	-0.20	0.46	-0.66	-6.7	-0.19	-0.28	0.09
Kamil Grosicki	3005	9	0.27	-0.87	1.14	-2.8	-0.08	-0.55	0.46
Reece Burke	2781	6	0.19	-0.53	0.72	-1.2	-0.04	-0.56	0.52
Jordy de Wijs	2631	10	0.34	-0.72	1.06	1.1	0.04	-0.64	0.68
Fraizer Campbell	2590	-6	-0.21	0.23	-0.44	-9.0	-0.31	-0.04	-0.27
Stephen Kingsley	2165	-2	-0.08	0.00	-0.08	-6.1	-0.25	-0.16	-0.09
Dan Batty	1824	-3	-0.15	0.04	-0.19	-4.3	-0.21	-0.21	-0.01
Tommy Elphick	1620	0	0.00	-0.07	0.07	-3.7	-0.20	-0.21	0.01
Kevin Stewart	1597	-1	-0.06	-0.04	-0.02	-6.8	-0.38	-0.10	-0.28
Chris Martin	1402	9	0.58	-0.36	0.94	0.8	0.05	-0.34	0.40
Evandro Goebel	1184	-3	-0.23	0.03	-0.26	-1.8	-0.14	-0.24	0.10
Robbie McKenzie	1093	-11	-0.91	0.27	-1.17	-9.2	-0.76	-0.01	-0.75
Marc Pugh	819	1	0.11	-0.08	0.19	-2.7	-0.29	-0.19	-0.10

 

Ipswich Town (Actual 24th, xG 24th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-2-3-1	9	1.2	0.8
3-5-2	1	1.0	1.4
4-1-2-1-2 (Diamond Formation)	2	1.0	1.0
3-4-1-2	1	1.0	0.4
Unknown	6	0.5	1.6
4-3-3	19	0.6	1.0
4-1-4-1	2	0.5	0.5
3-5-1-1	1	0.0	1.3
4-4-1-1	1	0.0	0.8
4-2-2-2	1	0.0	0.7
4-4-2 (Classic)	2	0.0	0.6
5-3-2	1	0.0	0.7

Performance by Manager

Things started very badly for Paul Hurst and Paul Lambert didn’t improve upon them with performances actually deteriorating.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Paul Hurst	14	0.6	24th	1.1	22nd
Bryan Klug	1	0.0		0.7
Paul Lambert	31	0.7	24th	0.9	24th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Freddie Sears	24	1862	10	6	4	4.4	1.1	0.21	0.05
Gwion Edwards	33	2315	8	6	2	3.4	2.6	0.13	0.10
Collin Quaner	16	976	7	4	3	2.9	1.0	0.27	0.09
Kayden Jackson	34	1544	5	3	2	3.7	1.4	0.22	0.08
Jon Nolan	26	2001	3	3	0	2.7	1.5	0.12	0.07
Trevoh Chalobah	43	3275	3	2	1	3.7	1.3	0.10	0.04
Will Keane	11	716	3	3	0	2.3	0.5	0.29	0.07
Ellis Harrison	15	775	2	1	1	2.4	0.8	0.28	0.09
Flynn Downes	29	1849	2	1	1	0.8	1.6	0.04	0.08
Grant Ward	14	922	2	0	2	1.0	1.9	0.09	0.19

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Hard to find a positive in such a poor season but Gwion Edwards posted some very interesting numbers. Ipswich had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 P) of -0.35 when he was on the pitch compared to -1.58 without him (GDp90 NP) for an actual difference of 1.23. He is surely going to attract the attention of a Championship team this summer.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-41	-0.89			-36.9	-0.80
Luke Chambers	3870	-40	-0.93	-0.33	-0.60	-34.1	-0.79	-0.93	0.13
Trevoh Chalobah	3275	-33	-0.91	-0.83	-0.07	-29.5	-0.81	-0.77	-0.04
Cole Skuse	2710	-24	-0.80	-1.07	0.27	-25.8	-0.86	-0.70	-0.16
Matthew Pennington	2700	-26	-0.87	-0.94	0.07	-24.4	-0.81	-0.78	-0.03
Bartosz Bialkowski	2520	-25	-0.89	-0.89	0.00	-20.0	-0.71	-0.94	0.23
Jonas Knudsen	2475	-24	-0.87	-0.92	0.05	-15.3	-0.56	-1.17	0.61
Gwion Edwards	2315	-9	-0.35	-1.58	1.23	-14.2	-0.55	-1.12	0.57
Jon Nolan	2001	-19	-0.85	-0.93	0.07	-12.2	-0.55	-1.04	0.49
Freddie Sears	1862	-21	-1.02	-0.79	-0.22	-21.0	-1.02	-0.63	-0.39
Flynn Downes	1849	-30	-1.46	-0.43	-1.03	-18.5	-0.90	-0.72	-0.18
Alan Judge	1683	-16	-0.86	-0.92	0.06	-19.4	-1.04	-0.64	-0.40
Myles Kenlock	1626	-14	-0.77	-0.97	0.19	-20.0	-1.11	-0.60	-0.51
Dean Gerken	1620	-16	-0.89	-0.89	0.00	-16.9	-0.94	-0.71	-0.23
Aristote Nsiala	1610	-18	-1.01	-0.82	-0.19	-16.5	-0.92	-0.73	-0.20
Kayden Jackson	1544	-19	-1.11	-0.76	-0.34	-14.4	-0.84	-0.78	-0.06
Jordan Spence	1387	-19	-1.23	-0.72	-0.51	-9.4	-0.61	-0.90	0.29
James Bree	1170	-13	-1.00	-0.85	-0.15	-14.6	-1.13	-0.68	-0.45
Teddy Bishop	1068	-10	-0.84	-0.91	0.07	-8.3	-0.70	-0.84	0.14

 

Leeds United (Actual 3rd, xG 1st)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
3-4-3	4	3.0	2.0
4-2-3-1	1	3.0	1.9
3-4-3 (Diamond Formation)	1	3.0	1.3
Unknown	6	2.3	1.5
4-1-4-1	34	1.5	1.8

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Pablo Hernv°ndez	39	3334	24	12	12	9.4	12.1	0.26	0.33
Mateusz Klich	46	3824	18	10	8	6.1	5.5	0.14	0.13
Kemar Roofe	30	2338	16	14	2	15.7	2.3	0.61	0.09
Ezgjan Alioski	44	3663	12	7	5	6.9	7.0	0.17	0.17
Patrick Bamford	21	1361	11	9	2	8.8	1.9	0.58	0.13
Luke Ayling	38	3247	8	2	6	4.8	6.0	0.13	0.17
Tyler Roberts	28	1865	8	3	5	4.9	2.3	0.23	0.11
Jack Harrison	36	2413	6	4	2	4.4	4.0	0.16	0.15
Barry Douglas	28	2076	5	0	5	1.0	4.7	0.04	0.21
Jack Clarke	22	798	4	2	2	1.2	2.3	0.13	0.26

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Pablo Hernandez has had a great season judged both on actual and xG performance. At the other end of the spectrum it doesn’t read positive for Pontus Jansson. Leeds had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 NP) of 1.58 without him but just 0.22 with him (GDp90 P).

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	23	0.50			36.9	0.80
Mateusz Klich	3824	19	0.45	1.14	-0.69	33.9	0.80	0.87	-0.07
Ezgjan Alioski	3663	21	0.52	0.38	0.14	28.5	0.70	1.58	-0.88
Kalvin Phillips	3551	23	0.58	0.00	0.58	31.5	0.80	0.83	-0.03
Liam Cooper	3351	20	0.54	0.34	0.19	28.9	0.78	0.91	-0.14
Pablo Hernv°ndez	3334	21	0.57	0.22	0.34	33.9	0.92	0.33	0.59
Pontus Jansson	3283	8	0.22	1.58	-1.36	27.6	0.76	0.97	-0.21
Luke Ayling	3247	17	0.47	0.60	-0.13	24.4	0.68	1.26	-0.58
Bailey Peacock-Farrell	2520	16	0.57	0.39	0.18	18.9	0.67	1.00	-0.33
Jack Harrison	2413	8	0.30	0.78	-0.48	21.2	0.79	0.82	-0.02
Kemar Roofe	2338	11	0.42	0.60	-0.18	23.4	0.90	0.67	0.23
Barry Douglas	2076	15	0.65	0.35	0.30	16.9	0.73	0.87	-0.14
Adam Forshaw	1883	3	0.14	0.80	-0.65	19.6	0.94	0.69	0.25
Tyler Roberts	1865	8	0.39	0.59	-0.21	14.7	0.71	0.88	-0.17
Francisco Casilla Cortv©s	1530	5	0.29	0.62	-0.33	16.6	0.98	0.70	0.28
Samuel Sv°iz	1370	16	1.05	0.23	0.82	13.2	0.87	0.77	0.10
Patrick Bamford	1361	10	0.66	0.42	0.24	12.5	0.83	0.79	0.04
Stuart Dallas	1242	1	0.07	0.68	-0.61	12.8	0.93	0.75	0.18
Gaetano Berardi	896	10	1.00	0.36	0.64	6.3	0.63	0.85	-0.21

 

Middlesbrough (Actual 7th, xG 9th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
3-5-2	2	3.0	1.3
Unknown	6	2.3	1.5
5-4-1	3	2.0	1.2
4-3-3	9	1.7	1.6
3-5-1-1	9	1.8	1.5
4-2-3-1	4	1.3	1.3
3-4-1-2	1	1.0	1.9
5-3-2	2	1.0	1.4
3-4-2-1	10	0.8	1.3

Performance by Manager

Although results were okay under Aitor Karanka performances were poor. Under Martin O’Neill points have been picked up at a slower pace but xG performances have improved. A mixed season all round.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Aitor Karanka	26	1.5	9th	1.3	20th
Martin O’Neill	20	1.4	13th	1.4	14th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Britt Assombalonga	42	2684	14	14	0	12.6	2.4	0.42	0.08
Jordan Hugill	36	1785	8	6	2	9.7	1.3	0.49	0.07
Jonny Howson	46	3943	7	1	6	4.1	8.3	0.09	0.19
Muhamed Besic	37	2340	7	2	5	2.3	4.8	0.09	0.18
Lewis Wing	28	1798	6	3	3	3.1	4.1	0.16	0.21
Ashley Fletcher	21	1155	5	5	0	4.8	1.8	0.37	0.14
Dael Fry	34	2863	4	0	4	1.0	1.6	0.03	0.05
George Friend	38	3271	4	2	2	3.3	2.5	0.09	0.07
George Saville	34	2520	4	4	0	3.2	4.8	0.12	0.17
Marcus Tavernier	19	483	4	3	1	1.3	1.3	0.25	0.25

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Lewis Wing catches the eye. Boro have posted positive numbers when playing and negative numbers without him. He will become an integral part of the promotion push next season if he can add more goals and assists.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	8	0.17			4.8	0.10
Darren Randolph	4140	8	0.17			4.8	0.10
Jonny Howson	3943	7	0.16	0.46	-0.30	6.0	0.14	-0.54	0.68
Aden Flint	3544	6	0.15	0.30	-0.15	2.6	0.07	0.34	-0.27
George Friend	3271	4	0.11	0.41	-0.30	5.9	0.16	-0.11	0.28
Ryan Shotton	2877	7	0.22	0.07	0.15	-0.6	-0.02	0.39	-0.41
Dael Fry	2863	7	0.22	0.07	0.15	1.8	0.06	0.21	-0.16
Daniel Ayala	2776	1	0.03	0.46	-0.43	4.8	0.16	0.00	0.16
Britt Assombalonga	2684	8	0.27	0.00	0.27	4.4	0.15	0.02	0.13
George Saville	2520	6	0.21	0.11	0.10	3.2	0.12	0.09	0.03
Adam Clayton	2489	-3	-0.11	0.60	-0.71	-5.4	-0.20	0.56	-0.75
Muhamed Besic	2340	13	0.50	-0.25	0.75	9.9	0.38	-0.25	0.63
Stewart Downing	2336	-4	-0.15	0.60	-0.75	-0.8	-0.03	0.28	-0.31
Lewis Wing	1798	16	0.80	-0.31	1.11	9.5	0.48	-0.18	0.66
Jordan Hugill	1785	0	0.00	0.31	-0.31	-1.0	-0.05	0.22	-0.27
John Obi Mikel	1600	-4	-0.23	0.43	-0.65	-3.7	-0.21	0.30	-0.51
Ashley Fletcher	1155	6	0.47	0.06	0.41	5.3	0.42	-0.02	0.43
Martin Braithwaite	1109	10	0.81	-0.06	0.87	5.3	0.43	-0.02	0.45
Paddy McNair	733	-2	-0.25	0.26	-0.51	-1.4	-0.18	0.16	-0.34

 

Millwall (Actual 21st, xG 7th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-5-1	1	3.0	1.1
4-4-1-1	10	1.0	1.2
4-2-3-1	1	1.0	1.6
3-5-1-1	1	1.0	1.3
4-4-2 (Classic)	27	0.9	1.6
Unknown	6	0.8	1.3

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Lee Gregory	43	3545	17	10	7	15.1	3.5	0.38	0.09
Jake Cooper	46	4140	12	6	6	9.0	3.5	0.20	0.08
Jed Wallace	42	3685	7	5	2	6.0	6.7	0.15	0.16
Shaun Williams	31	2636	7	5	2	3.7	5.4	0.13	0.18
Steve Morison	41	1975	7	1	6	5.7	3.6	0.26	0.16
Shane Ferguson	35	2465	6	2	4	2.2	8.1	0.08	0.29
Ben Thompson	13	1014	4	4	0	1.2	0.7	0.11	0.06
Tom Elliott	32	1220	4	3	1	4.1	1.7	0.30	0.13
Aiden O Brien	35	1498	3	2	1	3.1	0.8	0.19	0.05
Ryan Leonard	37	3298	3	2	1	3.3	1.3	0.09	0.04

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

The goals of Lee Gregory kept the Lions in the Championship this season and he will be sorely missed if he does move on during the summer. Millwall had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 P) of -0.23 when he was on the pitch compared to -1.06 without him (GDp90 NP) for an actual difference of 0.83.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-16	-0.35			10.2	0.22
Jake Cooper	4140	-16	-0.35			10.2	0.22
Jed Wallace	3685	-15	-0.37	-0.20	-0.17	6.3	0.15	0.79	-0.63
Mahlon Romeo	3619	-11	-0.27	-0.86	0.59	9.4	0.23	0.15	0.08
Lee Gregory	3545	-9	-0.23	-1.06	0.83	12.5	0.32	-0.34	0.66
Ryan Leonard	3298	-11	-0.30	-0.53	0.23	8.5	0.23	0.19	0.04
Shaun Williams	2636	-16	-0.55	0.00	-0.55	4.4	0.15	0.35	-0.20
James Meredith	2615	-22	-0.76	0.35	-1.11	4.6	0.16	0.34	-0.18
Shane Ferguson	2465	-3	-0.11	-0.70	0.59	13.6	0.50	-0.18	0.68
Jordan Archer	2160	-10	-0.42	-0.27	-0.14	5.6	0.24	0.21	0.03
Shaun Hutchinson	2148	-8	-0.34	-0.36	0.03	6.2	0.26	0.18	0.08
Steve Morison	1975	-9	-0.41	-0.29	-0.12	6.6	0.30	0.15	0.15
Ryan Tunnicliffe	1958	-10	-0.46	-0.25	-0.21	1.7	0.08	0.35	-0.28
Murray Wallace	1638	-8	-0.44	-0.29	-0.15	3.8	0.21	0.23	-0.03
Aiden O Brien	1498	-1	-0.06	-0.51	0.45	7.1	0.43	0.11	0.32
Tom Elliott	1220	-4	-0.30	-0.37	0.07	10.8	0.80	-0.02	0.81
Ben Marshall	1183	2	0.15	-0.55	0.70	-1.4	-0.10	0.35	-0.46
Ben Amos	1080	-6	-0.50	-0.29	-0.21	4.8	0.40	0.16	0.24
Ben Thompson	1014	-1	-0.09	-0.43	0.34	0.9	0.08	0.27	-0.19

 

Norwich City (Actual 1st, xG 3rd)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-2-3-1	40	2.2	1.6
Unknown	6	0.8	1.4

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Teemu Pukki	42	3738	38	29	9	19.6	6.3	0.47	0.15
Emiliano Buendv?a Stati	38	2881	20	8	12	8.0	9.6	0.25	0.30
Mario Vrancic	35	1477	17	10	7	3.8	2.8	0.23	0.17
Onel Hernv°ndez	40	3145	17	8	9	8.6	7.4	0.25	0.21
Marco Stiepermann	43	3308	15	9	6	7.0	8.5	0.19	0.23
Kenny McLean	19	1344	9	3	6	1.6	2.5	0.11	0.17
Maximillian Aarons	41	3665	8	2	6	1.8	4.6	0.04	0.11
Jordan Rhodes	31	1011	7	6	1	5.2	0.3	0.47	0.03
Ben Godfrey	28	2386	6	4	2	4.0	0.6	0.15	0.02
Timm Klose	25	2117	5	4	1	2.9	0.2	0.12	0.01

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Teemu Pukki had an outstanding season and looks great on all my metrics. However, to shine the light on a couple of the supporting cast both Christoph Zimmermann (1.59 actual difference) and Emiliano Buendia (1.23 actual difference) catch the eye. The German centre half Zimmermann will need to maintain the high standards to keep the Canaries in the Premier League. While at just 22 years old Bunedia has a very bright future and is one to watch next season.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	36	0.78			16.8	0.37
Tim Krul	4140	36	0.78			16.8	0.37
Teemu Pukki	3738	35	0.84	0.22	0.62	15.5	0.37	0.31	0.07
Jamal Lewis	3716	30	0.73	1.27	-0.55	11.4	0.28	1.16	-0.88
Maximillian Aarons	3665	38	0.93	-0.38	1.31	14.7	0.36	0.40	-0.04
Christoph Zimmermann	3496	40	1.03	-0.56	1.59	14.2	0.37	0.37	0.00
Marco Stiepermann	3308	29	0.79	0.76	0.03	17.3	0.47	-0.05	0.52
Onel Hernv°ndez	3145	29	0.83	0.63	0.20	12.4	0.36	0.40	-0.04
Emiliano Buendv?a Stati	2881	37	1.16	-0.07	1.23	12.9	0.40	0.28	0.13
Ben Godfrey	2386	23	0.87	0.67	0.20	11.3	0.43	0.28	0.14
Alexander Tettey	2378	14	0.53	1.12	-0.59	7.6	0.29	0.47	-0.18
Timm Klose	2117	13	0.55	1.02	-0.47	9.4	0.40	0.33	0.07
Tom Trybull	1929	13	0.61	0.94	-0.33	4.3	0.20	0.51	-0.31
Moritz Leitner	1709	14	0.74	0.81	-0.08	4.9	0.26	0.44	-0.19
Todd Cantwell	1598	3	0.17	1.17	-1.00	2.6	0.15	0.50	-0.36
Mario Vrancic	1477	23	1.40	0.44	0.96	7.9	0.48	0.30	0.18
Kenny McLean	1344	17	1.14	0.61	0.53	10.3	0.69	0.21	0.48
Jordan Rhodes	1011	8	0.71	0.81	-0.09	7.8	0.69	0.26	0.43
Grant Hanley	571	-2	-0.32	0.96	-1.27	0.4	0.06	0.42	-0.36

 

Nottingham Forest (Actual 9th, xG 16th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
3-4-3	1	3.0	1.9
4-1-2-1-2 (Diamond Formation)	1	3.0	1.9
3-4-2-1	2	3.0	1.8
4-3-3	3	2.3	1.2
4-2-3-1	25	1.4	1.3
Unknown	6	1.2	1.1
4-1-4-1	3	1.0	1.5
4-3-2-1	2	0.5	1.1
4-4-2 (Classic)	2	0.0	1.5
4-5-1	1	0.0	1.0

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Joe Lolley	45	3537	22	11	11	11.8	10.3	0.30	0.26
Lewis Grabban	39	2731	19	16	3	12.8	2.2	0.42	0.07
Jov£o Carvalho	38	2557	12	4	8	3.3	4.6	0.12	0.16
Daryl Murphy	28	1527	7	4	3	4.6	1.7	0.27	0.10
Matthew Cash	34	2433	7	6	1	5.3	2.5	0.20	0.09
Ben Osborn	39	2684	6	1	5	1.5	4.7	0.05	0.16
Adlv®ne Guv©dioura	27	1715	4	2	2	1.9	0.7	0.10	0.04
Jack Colback	38	3387	4	3	1	1.0	1.5	0.03	0.04
Jack Robinson	38	3234	4	2	2	1.4	2.2	0.04	0.06
Karim Ansarifard	10	287	3	2	1	1.8	0.0	0.55	0.01

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Jack Robinson and Joao Carvalho look key to any chance of success next season. They are stand out performers on the numbers and Martin O’Neill will be hoping for he can keep hold of both them. Forest have a 0.33 Goal Difference (GDp90 P) when Robinson has played but -0.50 without him (GDp90 NP). Likewise for Carvalho, Forest have a GDp90 P of 0.60 and GDp90 NP of -0.57 in his minutes.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	7	0.15			-7.7	-0.17
Costel Pantilimon	3960	9	0.20	-1.00	1.20	-8.3	-0.19	0.32	-0.51
Joe Lolley	3537	7	0.18	0.00	0.18	-7.1	-0.18	-0.08	-0.10
Jack Colback	3387	2	0.05	0.60	-0.54	-10.2	-0.27	0.30	-0.57
Jack Robinson	3234	12	0.33	-0.50	0.83	-1.2	-0.03	-0.65	0.62
Lewis Grabban	2731	8	0.26	-0.06	0.33	-5.5	-0.18	-0.14	-0.04
Ben Osborn	2684	8	0.27	-0.06	0.33	-0.3	-0.01	-0.46	0.45
Jov£o Carvalho	2557	17	0.60	-0.57	1.17	-6.1	-0.21	-0.09	-0.12
Tendayi Darikwa	2520	7	0.25	0.00	0.25	-6.9	-0.25	-0.04	-0.20
Matthew Cash	2433	4	0.15	0.16	-0.01	-6.5	-0.24	-0.06	-0.18
Adlv®ne Guv©dioura	1715	5	0.26	0.07	0.19	-2.6	-0.14	-0.19	0.05
Daniel Fox	1581	3	0.17	0.14	0.03	-9.9	-0.56	0.08	-0.64
Daryl Murphy	1527	-5	-0.29	0.41	-0.71	-2.5	-0.15	-0.18	0.03
Yohan Benalouane	1260	-6	-0.43	0.41	-0.83	-0.3	-0.02	-0.23	0.21
Ryan Yates	1231	1	0.07	0.19	-0.11	3.3	0.24	-0.34	0.59
Saidy Janko	1206	-2	-0.15	0.28	-0.43	-4.6	-0.34	-0.10	-0.25
Ben Watson	1202	0	0.00	0.21	-0.21	-3.8	-0.29	-0.12	-0.17
Michael Hefele	1120	0	0.00	0.21	-0.21	-4.7	-0.38	-0.09	-0.29
Tobias Figueiredo	1031	8	0.70	-0.03	0.73	-4.4	-0.39	-0.09	-0.29

 

Preston North End (Actual 14th, xG 12th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
Unknown	6	0.8	1.4
3-4-2-1	1	0.0	2.1
4-2-3-1	31	1.3	1.3
5-3-2	1	0.0	0.7
3-5-2	2	1.5	1.0
4-3-3	1	3.0	1.8
4-1-4-1	4	2.3	1.2

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Alan Browne	38	3171	17	12	5	6.4	4.4	0.18	0.12
Callum Robinson	27	2042	15	12	3	7.4	3.7	0.32	0.16
Paul Gallagher	39	2464	13	6	7	4.9	7.3	0.18	0.27
Daniel Johnson	34	2474	11	6	5	4.2	3.3	0.15	0.12
Lukas Nmecha	41	2319	9	4	5	7.3	3.5	0.28	0.13
Sean Maguire	26	1822	7	3	4	4.7	4.0	0.23	0.20
Tom Barkhuizen	34	2355	7	6	1	4.6	2.5	0.17	0.10
Andrew Hughes	32	2792	5	3	2	2.4	2.0	0.08	0.06
Louis Moult	23	927	5	4	1	2.3	1.5	0.23	0.15
Darnell Fisher	35	2872	4	0	4	0.7	3.2	0.02	0.10

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Looking at the players with the most minutes Ben Pearson has the biggest positive influence on the Lilywhites. Preston had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 P) of 0.37 when he was on the pitch compared to -0.68 without him (GDp90 NP). Conversely, the team performed better without Darnell Fisher.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	0	0.00			-3.5	-0.08
Ben Davies	3456	3	0.08	-0.39	0.47	-5.2	-0.13	0.22	-0.36
Declan Rudd	3240	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	-1.2	-0.03	-0.23	0.20
Alan Browne	3171	1	0.03	-0.09	0.12	-5.2	-0.15	0.16	-0.31
Darnell Fisher	2872	-8	-0.25	0.57	-0.82	-5.0	-0.16	0.10	-0.26
Andrew Hughes	2792	7	0.23	-0.47	0.69	1.2	0.04	-0.31	0.35
Ben Pearson	2689	11	0.37	-0.68	1.05	1.9	0.06	-0.33	0.39
Jordan Storey	2485	4	0.14	-0.22	0.36	-1.5	-0.05	-0.11	0.06
Daniel Johnson	2474	-3	-0.11	0.16	-0.27	-7.9	-0.29	0.24	-0.52
Paul Gallagher	2464	5	0.18	-0.27	0.45	-0.3	-0.01	-0.17	0.16
Tom Barkhuizen	2355	1	0.04	-0.05	0.09	1.0	0.04	-0.23	0.27
Lukas Nmecha	2319	-8	-0.31	0.40	-0.71	-2.6	-0.10	-0.04	-0.06
Callum Robinson	2042	-6	-0.26	0.26	-0.52	-5.1	-0.23	0.07	-0.30
Tom Clarke	1855	3	0.15	-0.12	0.26	1.6	0.08	-0.20	0.28
Paul Huntington	1845	-6	-0.29	0.24	-0.53	-0.4	-0.02	-0.12	0.10
Sean Maguire	1822	12	0.59	-0.47	1.06	-1.3	-0.07	-0.08	0.02
Ryan Ledson	1290	-13	-0.91	0.41	-1.32	-5.2	-0.36	0.05	-0.41
Joshua Earl	1055	-7	-0.60	0.20	-0.80	-4.8	-0.41	0.04	-0.45
Louis Moult	927	-1	-0.10	0.03	-0.13	-1.0	-0.10	-0.07	-0.03

 

Queens Park Rangers (Actual 19th, xG 10th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-1-4-1	2	1.5	1.5
4-4-1-1	22	1.5	1.5
4-2-3-1	6	1.2	1.0
Unknown	6	0.7	1.2
4-4-2 (Classic)	8	0.6	1.6
3-5-2	2	0.0	1.3

Performance by Manager

Although struggling in the table at the point of Steve McClaren’s departure expected performances were strong. The team have performed worse under John Eustace.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Steve McClaren	39	1.1	19th	1.4	8th
John Eustace	7	1.0	21st	1.3	20th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Luke Freeman	43	3777	13	7	6	6.6	10.0	0.16	0.24
Nahki Wells	40	2860	13	7	6	10.4	3.6	0.33	0.11
Pawel Wszolek	37	2448	8	4	4	3.9	3.4	0.14	0.13
Eberechi Eze	42	3192	7	4	3	5.4	2.6	0.15	0.07
Massimo Luongo	41	3620	7	3	4	5.8	3.3	0.14	0.08
Matt Smith	32	924	7	6	1	5.5	1.5	0.54	0.14
Tomer Hemed	26	1335	7	7	0	9.8	1.1	0.66	0.08
Angel Rangel	20	1736	4	2	2	0.7	1.3	0.04	0.07
Jake Bidwell	40	3484	4	0	4	1.6	4.4	0.04	0.11
Josh Scowen	34	2205	4	2	2	1.5	3.2	0.06	0.13

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Two players stand head and shoulders above the rest of the squad: Joe Lumley and Toni Leistner. It’s noticeable how much worse the team have been without them with a GDp90 NP of -2.75 for Lumley and -2.69 for Leistner. Based on xG performance QPR are almost a goal a game better with them in the team then without. Between them they are forming the foundations of a solid defence.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-18	-0.39			1.4	0.03
Joe Lumley	3780	-7	-0.17	-2.75	2.58	4.7	0.11	-0.81	0.92
Luke Freeman	3777	-18	-0.43	0.00	-0.43	-0.4	-0.01	0.45	-0.46
Toni Leistner	3739	-6	-0.14	-2.69	2.55	4.8	0.12	-0.77	0.88
Massimo Luongo	3620	-10	-0.25	-1.38	1.14	4.5	0.11	-0.54	0.65
Jake Bidwell	3484	-18	-0.46	0.00	-0.46	1.4	0.04	0.01	0.03
Eberechi Eze	3192	-10	-0.28	-0.76	0.48	-1.9	-0.05	0.31	-0.37
Joel Lynch	3070	-12	-0.35	-0.50	0.15	0.7	0.02	0.06	-0.03
Nahki Wells	2860	-9	-0.28	-0.63	0.35	1.1	0.03	0.02	0.01
Pawel Wszolek	2448	-14	-0.51	-0.21	-0.30	-3.9	-0.14	0.28	-0.42
Josh Scowen	2205	-14	-0.57	-0.19	-0.39	-3.5	-0.14	0.23	-0.37
Jordan Cousins	2107	-12	-0.51	-0.27	-0.25	-4.4	-0.19	0.26	-0.44
Darnell Furlong	2074	-11	-0.48	-0.30	-0.17	0.2	0.01	0.05	-0.05
Angel Rangel	1736	2	0.10	-0.75	0.85	2.9	0.15	-0.05	0.20
Geoff Cameron	1391	-1	-0.06	-0.56	0.49	3.8	0.25	-0.08	0.33
Tomer Hemed	1335	0	0.00	-0.58	0.58	6.3	0.43	-0.16	0.58
Bright Samuel	1129	-5	-0.40	-0.39	-0.01	3.8	0.30	-0.07	0.37
Matt Smith	924	-9	-0.88	-0.25	-0.62	0.2	0.02	0.03	-0.01
Ryan Manning	632	-2	-0.28	-0.41	0.13	1.2	0.18	0.00	0.17

 

Reading (Actual 20th, xG 23rd)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-1-4-1	1	3.0	0.5
4-3-3	10	1.3	1.0
4-2-3-1	23	1.1	1.0
4-3-2-1	1	1.0	0.8
5-3-2	3	0.7	0.5
Unknown	6	0.3	1.3
4-4-2 (Classic)	1	0.0	0.4
4-3-1-2	1	0.0	0.5

Performance by Manager

A poor half season under Paul Clement was followed by an improved half season under José Gomes who steered them to safety. xG performance remained consistent throughout so Gomes has done well to keep them up.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Paul Clement	20	0.9	22nd	1.0	23rd
Scott Marshall	3	0.3		0.6
José Gomes	23	1.2	17th	1.0	23rd

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Yakou Meite	37	2616	13	12	1	9.8	0.7	0.34	0.02
Modou Barrow	34	2150	10	4	6	2.7	4.0	0.11	0.17
Jv=n Dadi Bv?dvarsson	20	1002	7	7	0	3.8	0.6	0.34	0.05
John Swift	34	2548	6	3	3	4.5	4.7	0.16	0.17
Leandro Bacuna	26	2102	6	3	3	2.2	2.9	0.09	0.12
Sam Baldock	20	1364	6	5	1	4.5	1.2	0.30	0.08
Andy Yiadom	45	4050	5	1	4	1.8	3.7	0.04	0.08
Garath McCleary	31	1524	3	0	3	2.1	3.5	0.13	0.21
Nv©lson Oliveira	10	675	3	3	0	2.9	0.8	0.39	0.11
Andy Rinomhota	25	2114	2	1	1	0.6	1.3	0.02	0.05

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Captain marvel Liam Moore is the standout for the Royals. Reading have looked pretty poor throughout the season albeit less poor when he’s been present. A goal difference per 90 (GDp90 P) of -0.24 when he’s played far superior to -1.00 without him (GDp90 NP).

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-17	-0.37			-36.3	-0.79
Andy Yiadom	4050	-17	-0.38	0.00	-0.38	-34.7	-0.77	-1.57	0.80
Liam Moore	3420	-9	-0.24	-1.00	0.76	-29.1	-0.77	-0.90	0.13
Yakou Meite	2616	-16	-0.55	-0.06	-0.49	-25.8	-0.89	-0.62	-0.27
Tyler Blackett	2578	-11	-0.38	-0.35	-0.04	-29.8	-1.04	-0.38	-0.66
John Swift	2548	-7	-0.25	-0.57	0.32	-20.3	-0.72	-0.90	0.19
Modou Barrow	2150	-11	-0.46	-0.27	-0.19	-14.5	-0.61	-0.99	0.38
Andy Rinomhota	2114	-7	-0.30	-0.44	0.15	-22.5	-0.96	-0.61	-0.35
Leandro Bacuna	2102	-7	-0.30	-0.44	0.14	-17.8	-0.76	-0.82	0.06
Tiago Ilori	1710	-8	-0.42	-0.33	-0.09	-10.0	-0.53	-0.97	0.44
Emiliano Martinez	1620	-5	-0.28	-0.43	0.15	-13.9	-0.77	-0.80	0.03
Matt Miazga	1620	-5	-0.28	-0.43	0.15	-13.9	-0.77	-0.80	0.03
Chris Gunter	1557	-6	-0.35	-0.38	0.04	-17.4	-1.01	-0.66	-0.35
Garath McCleary	1524	-5	-0.30	-0.41	0.12	-17.8	-1.05	-0.64	-0.41
Lewis Baker	1479	-7	-0.43	-0.34	-0.09	-14.3	-0.87	-0.75	-0.12
Liam Kelly	1412	-4	-0.25	-0.43	0.17	-16.2	-1.03	-0.66	-0.37
Sam Baldock	1364	-4	-0.26	-0.42	0.16	-12.3	-0.81	-0.78	-0.04
Anssi Jaakkola	1350	-8	-0.53	-0.29	-0.24	-16.9	-1.13	-0.63	-0.50
Oviemuno Ejaria	1303	-3	-0.21	-0.44	0.24	-9.7	-0.67	-0.84	0.17

 

Rotherham United (Actual 22nd, xG 21st)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-2-3-1	1	3.0	1.4
4-3-3	7	1.1	1.4
4-4-1-1	5	1.2	1.4
3-5-2	2	1.0	1.4
Unknown	6	1.0	1.0
4-1-4-1	23	0.7	1.1
4-4-2 (Classic)	2	0.0	1.4

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Will Vaulks	41	3672	14	7	7	7.8	5.3	0.19	0.13
Michael Smith	44	3836	12	8	4	10.1	4.1	0.24	0.10
Semi Ajayi	46	4107	8	7	1	8.5	1.8	0.19	0.04
Richard Towell	34	2494	6	4	2	4.5	1.6	0.16	0.06
Jon Taylor	41	2527	5	4	1	5.0	3.3	0.18	0.12
Ryan Manning	18	1175	5	4	1	5.5	1.1	0.42	0.08
Clark Robertson	28	2366	4	3	1	4.0	1.0	0.15	0.04
Joe Newell	31	1640	4	0	4	2.4	6.3	0.13	0.34
Anthony Forde	28	1507	3	1	2	1.2	3.1	0.07	0.18
Matt Crooks	16	736	3	3	0	2.2	0.8	0.27	0.10

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

The top five players in the list below featured in around 90% of more of the total minutes and it’s noticeable how the team performed better when they were involved. If they can keep this nucleus of players together then that provides a strong foundation to build on next season in League One.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-31	-0.67			-13.4	-0.29
Semi Ajayi	4107	-30	-0.66	-2.73	2.07	-13.5	-0.30	0.20	-0.50
Marek Rodak	4050	-30	-0.67	-1.00	0.33	-13.5	-0.30	0.10	-0.40
Joe Mattock	3890	-26	-0.60	-1.80	1.20	-12.1	-0.28	-0.49	0.21
Michael Smith	3836	-25	-0.59	-1.78	1.19	-11.5	-0.27	-0.56	0.29
Will Vaulks	3672	-23	-0.56	-1.54	0.97	-7.9	-0.19	-1.06	0.87
Zak Vyner	2583	-25	-0.87	-0.35	-0.52	-6.7	-0.23	-0.39	0.15
Jon Taylor	2527	-22	-0.78	-0.50	-0.28	-10.8	-0.38	-0.15	-0.24
Richard Towell	2494	-21	-0.76	-0.55	-0.21	-7.9	-0.29	-0.30	0.01
Clark Robertson	2366	-12	-0.46	-0.96	0.51	-2.0	-0.07	-0.58	0.51
Ryan Williams	2358	-11	-0.42	-1.01	0.59	-4.8	-0.18	-0.43	0.25
Richard Wood	2047	-17	-0.75	-0.60	-0.15	-11.7	-0.51	-0.08	-0.44
Joe Newell	1640	-13	-0.71	-0.65	-0.07	-2.1	-0.11	-0.41	0.29
Billy Jones	1613	-15	-0.84	-0.57	-0.27	-8.8	-0.49	-0.16	-0.33
Anthony Forde	1507	-16	-0.96	-0.51	-0.44	-5.8	-0.34	-0.26	-0.08
Michael Ihiekwe	1317	-10	-0.68	-0.67	-0.01	-4.4	-0.30	-0.29	-0.01
Ryan Manning	1175	-9	-0.69	-0.67	-0.02	-3.9	-0.30	-0.29	0.00
Ben Wiles	934	-5	-0.48	-0.73	0.25	-2.8	-0.26	-0.30	0.03
Kyle Vassell	897	0	0.00	-0.86	0.86	-1.5	-0.15	-0.33	0.18

 

Sheffield United (Actual 2nd, xG 2nd)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
3-4-2-1	1	3.0	1.8
3-4-1-2	30	2.0	1.8
Unknown	6	2.0	1.6
3-5-2	9	1.7	1.5

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Billy Sharp	40	3026	27	23	4	15.5	2.6	0.46	0.08
David McGoldrick	45	3262	19	15	4	17.0	3.5	0.47	0.10
John Fleck	45	3975	12	2	10	2.9	8.7	0.07	0.20
Mark Duffy	36	2450	12	6	6	3.1	5.8	0.11	0.21
Oliver Norwood	43	3807	11	3	8	3.7	12.1	0.09	0.29
Enda Stevens	45	4029	10	4	6	3.6	5.7	0.08	0.13
Jack O Connell	41	3676	6	3	3	4.0	2.9	0.10	0.07
Kieron Freeman	20	1748	6	2	4	1.2	3.6	0.06	0.18
Leon Clarke	23	929	6	3	3	4.8	0.9	0.46	0.09
Chris Basham	41	3430	5	4	1	2.4	3.3	0.06	0.09

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Tough to highlight standouts for a team who deservedly finished in the automatic spots and it will be interesting to see where Chris Wilder decides to invest. Three worth a mention are John Fleck, Oliver Norwood and Mark Duffy. The Blades were considerably stronger during their minutes on the pitch.

Sheffield United had a goal difference per 90 minutes (GDp90 P) of 0.88 when Fleck played compared to -1.09 without him (GDp90 NP). Likewise, it was a GDp90 P of 0.92 and GDp90 NP of -0.54 for Norwood, and a GDp90 P of 1.18 and GDp90 NP of 0.27 for Duffy.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	37	0.80			28.9	0.63
Dean Henderson	4140	37	0.80			28.9	0.63
Enda Stevens	4029	35	0.78	1.62	-0.84	28.3	0.63	0.52	0.11
John Fleck	3975	39	0.88	-1.09	1.97	28.0	0.63	0.51	0.12
John Egan	3915	33	0.76	1.60	-0.84	28.2	0.65	0.28	0.37
Oliver Norwood	3807	39	0.92	-0.54	1.46	28.1	0.66	0.22	0.45
Jack O Connell	3676	32	0.78	0.97	-0.19	26.2	0.64	0.53	0.11
Chris Basham	3430	22	0.58	1.90	-1.32	23.5	0.62	0.69	-0.07
David McGoldrick	3262	31	0.86	0.62	0.24	21.3	0.59	0.79	-0.20
Billy Sharp	3026	30	0.89	0.57	0.33	19.4	0.58	0.77	-0.19
Mark Duffy	2450	32	1.18	0.27	0.91	24.1	0.88	0.26	0.62
George Baldock	2275	17	0.67	0.97	-0.29	14.0	0.55	0.72	-0.17
Kieron Freeman	1748	17	0.88	0.75	0.12	15.1	0.78	0.52	0.26
Leon Clarke	929	1	0.10	1.01	-0.91	6.8	0.66	0.62	0.04
Martin Cranie	881	10	1.02	0.75	0.28	-0.3	-0.04	0.81	-0.84
Gary Madine	707	12	1.53	0.66	0.87	7.6	0.97	0.56	0.41
Kieran Dowell	666	7	0.95	0.78	0.17	6.1	0.82	0.59	0.23
Richard Stearman	437	5	1.03	0.78	0.25	2.4	0.49	0.64	-0.15
Scott Hogan	434	11	2.28	0.63	1.65	4.5	0.94	0.59	0.35

 

Sheffield Wednesday (Actual 12th, xG 19th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-3-3	1	3.0	1.9
3-4-3	4	2.5	1.0
Unknown	6	1.7	1.2
4-1-4-1	5	1.6	1.5
4-4-1-1	4	1.5	1.6
4-4-2 (Classic)	13	1.4	1.2
3-4-1-2	1	1.0	1.0
3-1-4-2	1	1.0	1.1
4-2-3-1	6	1.0	1.2
3-4-2-1	2	0.5	1.4
4-3-2-1	1	0.0	1.4
4-1-2-1-2 (Diamond Formation)	2	0.0	1.5

Performance by Manager

Jos Luhukay rightly faced the chop with all three managers to take helm subsequently improving the team. Steve Bruce has achieved playoff results in his stint but they have performed as a mid table team on xG.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Jos Luhukay	22	1.1	20th	1.1	22nd
Lee Bullen	4	2.0		1.7
Steve Agnew	2	1.5		1.3
Steve Bruce	18	1.6	6th	1.4	12th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Barry Bannan	41	3596	16	5	11	3.2	8.7	0.08	0.22
Adam Reach	43	3764	15	8	7	6.0	7.1	0.14	0.17
Steven Fletcher	39	2445	13	11	2	10.7	2.2	0.39	0.08
Lucas Jov£o	31	1606	12	10	2	5.8	2.0	0.32	0.11
Marco Matias	31	1799	8	6	2	3.1	1.4	0.16	0.07
Fernando Forestieri	23	1296	7	6	1	5.1	1.0	0.35	0.07
Atdhe Nuhiu	33	1530	6	4	2	4.7	1.5	0.28	0.09
Dominic Iorfa	11	835	4	3	1	1.4	0.6	0.15	0.07
Tom Lees	42	3780	4	2	2	2.5	2.7	0.06	0.06
George Boyd	20	1284	3	1	2	1.9	1.8	0.13	0.13

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Tom Lees and Michael Hector, on loan from Chelsea, both had great seasons in defence with the Owls c.0.7 goals better per game with the pair in the team. Hector will be popular amongst Championship teams in the summer looking to secure a deal.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-2	-0.04			-6.6	-0.14
Tom Lees	3780	1	0.02	-0.75	0.77	-5.4	-0.13	-0.29	0.16
Adam Reach	3764	1	0.02	-0.72	0.74	-5.2	-0.13	-0.32	0.20
Barry Bannan	3596	-3	-0.08	0.17	-0.24	-7.1	-0.18	0.08	-0.26
Michael Hector	3242	4	0.11	-0.60	0.71	-2.4	-0.07	-0.42	0.35
Liam Palmer	3091	2	0.06	-0.34	0.40	-1.2	-0.03	-0.47	0.43
Joey Pelupessy	2483	-7	-0.25	0.27	-0.53	-8.1	-0.30	0.08	-0.38
Steven Fletcher	2445	1	0.04	-0.16	0.20	-1.3	-0.05	-0.28	0.23
Cameron Dawson	2340	-10	-0.38	0.40	-0.78	-9.3	-0.36	0.14	-0.49
Keiren Westwood	1890	8	0.38	-0.40	0.78	2.7	0.13	-0.37	0.50
Morgan Fox	1881	-9	-0.43	0.28	-0.71	-1.5	-0.07	-0.20	0.13
Marco Matias	1799	-3	-0.15	0.04	-0.19	-3.4	-0.17	-0.12	-0.05
Sam Hutchinson	1770	3	0.15	-0.19	0.34	0.4	0.02	-0.27	0.29
Lucas Jov£o	1606	-1	-0.06	-0.04	-0.02	-2.3	-0.13	-0.15	0.02
Atdhe Nuhiu	1530	-3	-0.18	0.03	-0.21	-3.3	-0.19	-0.11	-0.08
Jordan Thorniley	1518	-3	-0.18	0.03	-0.21	-5.0	-0.30	-0.05	-0.24
Fernando Forestieri	1296	-1	-0.07	-0.03	-0.04	-2.2	-0.15	-0.14	-0.01
George Boyd	1284	-1	-0.07	-0.03	-0.04	0.3	0.02	-0.22	0.24
Matt Penney	1079	-3	-0.25	0.03	-0.28	-4.6	-0.38	-0.06	-0.32

 

Stoke City (Actual 16th, xG 13th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-5-1	1	3.0	1.0
4-1-4-1	7	1.7	1.3
4-4-1-1	4	1.5	0.9
3-5-2	2	1.5	1.4
4-3-3	17	1.3	1.5
4-4-2 (Classic)	1	1.0	2.1
3-5-1-1	1	1.0	1.3
Unknown	6	0.8	1.3
5-3-2	2	0.5	1.5
4-1-2-1-2 (Diamond Formation)	4	0.3	1.2
4-2-3-1	1	0.0	0.4

Performance by Manager

Gary Rowett underperformed pre season expectations but Nathan Jones hasn’t had the expected improvement. Big summer window ahead of next season.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Gary Rowett	26	1.3	14th	1.4	14th
Nathan Jones	20	1.0	21st	1.2	20th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Tom Ince	38	3101	13	6	7	8.6	4.9	0.25	0.14
Benik Afobe	45	2823	10	8	2	9.4	1.4	0.30	0.05
Joe Allen	46	4132	10	6	4	6.2	6.0	0.13	0.13
James McClean	42	2948	9	3	6	4.7	4.1	0.14	0.13
Sam Clucas	26	2088	7	3	4	2.2	2.7	0.10	0.12
Erik Pieters	21	1847	4	2	2	0.4	0.7	0.02	0.03
Saido Berahino	22	1293	4	3	1	4.0	0.8	0.28	0.05
Sam Vokes	12	836	4	3	1	2.2	0.7	0.24	0.07
Oghenekaro Etebo	34	2609	3	2	1	2.2	2.4	0.08	0.08
Ashley Williams	33	2604	2	1	1	1.5	0.8	0.05	0.03

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

The quick of a small sample show how much better Stoke were in the 8 minutes Joe Allen didn’t play. On a serious note  Tom Ince was positive for the Potters in his minutes this season. Nathan Jones will be hopeful he will have another strong season as they look to build on what was ultimately a hugely disappointing season.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-7	-0.15			-6.5	-0.14
Joe Allen	4132	-8	-0.17	11.25	-11.42	-6.5	-0.14	0.00	-0.14
Jack Butland	4050	-6	-0.13	-1.00	0.87	-6.9	-0.15	0.41	-0.56
Bruno Martins Indi	3126	-4	-0.12	-0.27	0.15	-2.5	-0.07	-0.35	0.28
Tom Ince	3101	0	0.00	-0.61	0.61	-0.6	-0.02	-0.51	0.50
James McClean	2948	-9	-0.27	0.15	-0.43	-8.4	-0.26	0.14	-0.40
Ryan Shawcross	2937	-5	-0.15	-0.15	0.00	-2.1	-0.06	-0.33	0.26
Benik Afobe	2823	-5	-0.16	-0.14	-0.02	-11.4	-0.36	0.34	-0.70
Oghenekaro Etebo	2609	-10	-0.34	0.18	-0.52	-0.8	-0.03	-0.34	0.31
Ashley Williams	2604	-9	-0.31	0.12	-0.43	-12.9	-0.45	0.38	-0.82
Ryan Woods	2271	3	0.12	-0.48	0.60	0.2	0.01	-0.32	0.33
Sam Clucas	2088	-4	-0.17	-0.13	-0.04	-5.7	-0.25	-0.03	-0.21
Thomas Edwards	1965	-7	-0.32	0.00	-0.32	-7.7	-0.35	0.05	-0.40
Erik Pieters	1847	0	0.00	-0.27	0.27	-3.8	-0.18	-0.11	-0.08
Rhu-Endly Martina	1599	1	0.06	-0.28	0.34	0.5	0.03	-0.25	0.27
Danny Batth	1530	-3	-0.18	-0.14	-0.04	-3.8	-0.23	-0.09	-0.13
Saido Berahino	1293	0	0.00	-0.22	0.22	-4.0	-0.28	-0.08	-0.20
Sam Vokes	836	-4	-0.43	-0.08	-0.35	-2.0	-0.21	-0.12	-0.09
Bojan Krkic	736	5	0.61	-0.32	0.93	3.7	0.45	-0.27	0.72

 

Swansea City (Actual 10th, xG 8th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
3-5-2	2	2.0	1.2
Unknown	6	1.8	1.1
4-2-3-1	23	1.7	1.6
4-3-3	6	1.3	1.6
3-4-1-2	1	1.0	1.4
4-2-2-2	1	1.0	1.0
4-4-2 (Classic)	3	0.3	1.2
4-1-4-1	1	0.0	2.3
3-4-3	2	0.0	1.5
3-4-2-1	1	0.0	0.8

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Oliver McBurnie	42	3414	26	22	4	15.7	3.8	0.41	0.10
Bersant Celina	38	2963	11	5	6	7.9	7.6	0.24	0.23
Daniel James	33	2507	11	4	7	8.3	5.1	0.30	0.18
Wayne Routledge	24	1848	8	5	3	3.9	6.0	0.19	0.29
Barrie McKay	29	1397	7	2	5	1.1	2.9	0.07	0.19
Connor Roberts	45	3956	6	5	1	4.9	5.5	0.11	0.13
Matt Grimes	45	3730	5	1	4	3.2	5.7	0.08	0.14
Courtney Baker-Richardson	15	533	4	3	1	2.8	0.5	0.47	0.09
Mike van der Hoorn	46	4069	4	3	1	4.4	2.0	0.10	0.04
George Byers	21	1647	3	2	1	2.1	1.2	0.11	0.07

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Daniel James is the Swans player on everyones lips but the team actually had a better GD without him. Swansea had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 P) of -0.11 when he was on the pitch compared to 0.33 without him (GDp90 NP). This is reversed based on xG performance.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	3	0.07			9.2	0.20
Mike van der Hoorn	4069	3	0.07	0.00	0.07	9.5	0.21	-0.42	0.63
Connor Roberts	3956	-1	-0.02	1.96	-1.98	6.5	0.15	1.32	-1.17
Matt Grimes	3730	4	0.10	-0.22	0.32	12.9	0.31	-0.80	1.11
Oliver McBurnie	3414	5	0.13	-0.25	0.38	6.8	0.18	0.30	-0.12
Bersant Celina	2963	1	0.03	0.15	-0.12	5.2	0.16	0.31	-0.15
Kyle Naughton	2757	6	0.20	-0.20	0.39	13.4	0.44	-0.28	0.71
Daniel James	2507	-3	-0.11	0.33	-0.44	11.2	0.40	-0.11	0.51
Erwin Mulder	2227	1	0.04	0.09	-0.05	-3.3	-0.13	0.59	-0.72
Cameron Carter-Vickers	2203	-5	-0.20	0.37	-0.58	8.5	0.35	0.03	0.32
Joe Rodon	2052	2	0.09	0.04	0.04	-1.7	-0.08	0.47	-0.55
Kristoffer Nordfeldt	1913	2	0.09	0.04	0.05	12.5	0.59	-0.13	0.72
Jay Fulton	1910	-1	-0.05	0.16	-0.21	-1.2	-0.06	0.42	-0.48
Wayne Routledge	1848	8	0.39	-0.20	0.59	7.9	0.38	0.05	0.33
George Byers	1647	-1	-0.05	0.14	-0.20	9.1	0.50	0.00	0.49
Barrie McKay	1397	2	0.13	0.03	0.10	-2.6	-0.17	0.39	-0.56
Nathan Dyer	1360	4	0.26	-0.03	0.30	8.7	0.57	0.02	0.56
Leroy Fer	1351	8	0.53	-0.16	0.69	-0.4	-0.02	0.31	-0.33
Martin Olsson	1105	-4	-0.33	0.21	-0.53	-1.1	-0.09	0.31	-0.40

 

West Bromwich Albion (Actual 4th, xG 4th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
4-2-2-2	1	3.0	1.4
3-5-2	3	3.0	1.8
4-4-2 (Classic)	2	2.0	1.9
4-3-3	21	1.8	1.4
Unknown	6	1.7	1.4
3-4-1-2	10	1.5	1.6
3-4-3	2	0.5	1.0
4-4-1-1	1	0.0	2.1

Performance by Manager

Darren Moore was unlucky to lose his job with just 10 games to go having essentially secured a playoff spot. West Bromwich Albion have picked up more points under James Shan but xG performance indicate that is fortunate.

Managerial Record	Matches	Pts p90	Rank	xPts p90	Rank
Darren Moore	36	1.7	5th	1.5	4th
James Shan	10	1.9	3rd	1.4	10th

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Jay Rodriguez	45	3979	28	22	6	19.8	4.6	0.45	0.10
Dwight Gayle	39	2846	25	23	2	14.7	2.4	0.46	0.08
Harvey Barnes	26	2225	15	9	6	7.3	4.4	0.30	0.18
Matt Phillips	30	2092	12	5	7	2.8	7.6	0.12	0.33
Chris Brunt	31	2004	8	2	6	2.0	7.1	0.09	0.32
Kieran Gibbs	36	3037	8	4	4	1.6	3.7	0.05	0.11
Hal Robson-Kanu	34	1485	5	4	1	5.5	2.5	0.33	0.15
Stefan Johansen	12	883	5	2	3	0.7	2.3	0.08	0.24
Craig Dawson	41	3550	4	2	2	4.3	2.6	0.11	0.07
Jake Livermore	39	3182	4	2	2	1.7	1.9	0.05	0.05

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

The toughest one to draw conclusions from. The players at the top of the list with the most minutes played haven’t had a poisitve impact based on both actuals and xG performance. Looking further down the list Harvey Barnes (now back at Leicester City) and Matt Phillips are the first ones who fall into this category.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	25	0.54			12.7	0.28
Sam Johnstone	4140	25	0.54			12.7	0.28
Jay Rodriguez	3979	22	0.50	1.68	-1.18	10.5	0.24	1.18	-0.94
Craig Dawson	3550	21	0.53	0.61	-0.08	10.6	0.27	0.31	-0.05
Ahmed Hegazy	3284	29	0.79	-0.42	1.22	5.8	0.16	0.72	-0.56
Jake Livermore	3182	24	0.68	0.09	0.58	9.1	0.26	0.34	-0.08
Kieran Gibbs	3037	30	0.89	-0.41	1.30	9.0	0.27	0.29	-0.03
Dwight Gayle	2846	20	0.63	0.35	0.28	5.6	0.18	0.49	-0.31
Harvey Barnes	2225	21	0.85	0.19	0.66	8.2	0.33	0.21	0.12
Kyle Bartley	2187	12	0.49	0.60	-0.11	6.9	0.29	0.26	0.02
Matt Phillips	2092	17	0.73	0.35	0.38	11.3	0.49	0.06	0.43
Tosin Adarabioyo	2029	6	0.27	0.81	-0.54	8.4	0.37	0.18	0.19
Chris Brunt	2004	15	0.67	0.42	0.25	7.4	0.33	0.22	0.11
Mason Holgate	1659	3	0.16	0.80	-0.64	0.7	0.04	0.43	-0.40
Hal Robson-Kanu	1485	9	0.55	0.54	0.00	13.2	0.80	-0.02	0.82
Gareth Barry	1388	17	1.10	0.26	0.84	8.7	0.56	0.13	0.43
Rekeem Harper	1131	0	0.00	0.75	-0.75	-1.4	-0.11	0.42	-0.53
James Morrison	963	0	0.00	0.71	-0.71	5.1	0.47	0.21	0.26
Conor Townsend	957	1	0.09	0.68	-0.58	4.9	0.46	0.22	0.25

 

Wigan Athletic (Actual 18th, xG 14th)

Performance by Match

Performance by Formation

Starting Formation	Matches	Pts p90	xPts p90
Unknown	6	1.7	1.8
4-2-3-1	13	1.6	1.1
3-5-2	1	1.0	0.8
3-4-2-1	1	1.0	2.3
5-4-1	1	1.0	1.9
4-4-1-1	20	0.9	1.4
4-1-4-1	3	0.3	1.2
3-4-3	1	0.0	1.0

Attacking Performance by Player

Player	Apps	Mins	GI	G	A	xG	xA	xGp90	xAp90
Nick Powell	32	1996	14	8	6	8.5	3.3	0.38	0.15
Joe Garner	30	1507	9	8	1	7.1	1.0	0.42	0.06
Michael Jacobs	22	1689	8	4	4	3.5	2.6	0.19	0.14
Josh Windass	38	2675	7	5	2	7.1	4.1	0.24	0.14
Gavin Massey	19	1170	6	5	1	1.6	2.4	0.13	0.18
Lee Evans	34	2828	6	1	5	2.6	4.9	0.08	0.16
Reece James	45	3972	6	3	3	3.4	9.7	0.08	0.22
Leon Clarke	15	838	5	3	2	4.6	0.6	0.49	0.06
William Grigg	17	895	5	4	1	5.1	0.9	0.52	0.09
Nathan Byrne	30	2349	4	1	3	1.4	1.7	0.05	0.06

Overall Performance by Player (P=Playing, NP=Not Playing)

Reece James tops the list for minutes played and tops the list for greatest performance impact for the Latics. Wigan had a Goal Difference per 90 mins (GDp90 P) of -0.25 when he was on the pitch compared to -1.07 without him (GDp90 NP). He’s another Chelsea loanee who’s had a great Championship season and another who might benefit from the transfer ban.

Player	Mins	GD P	GDp90 P	GDp90 NP	Diff	xGD P	xGDp90 P	xGDp90 NP	Diff
Team Average	4140	-13	-0.28			-0.5	-0.01
Reece James	3972	-11	-0.25	-1.07	0.82	0.0	0.00	-0.25	0.25
Sam Morsy	3598	-13	-0.33	0.00	-0.33	2.7	0.07	-0.52	0.59
Cedric Kipre	3342	-9	-0.24	-0.45	0.21	-3.8	-0.10	0.37	-0.47
Cheyenne Dunkley	3312	-9	-0.24	-0.43	0.19	-2.7	-0.07	0.24	-0.31
Christian Walton	3060	-9	-0.26	-0.33	0.07	-1.6	-0.05	0.10	-0.14
Lee Evans	2828	-4	-0.13	-0.62	0.49	-0.5	-0.02	0.00	-0.02
Josh Windass	2675	-18	-0.61	0.31	-0.91	-4.0	-0.14	0.22	-0.35
Nathan Byrne	2349	-6	-0.23	-0.35	0.12	-0.8	-0.03	0.02	-0.05
Antonee Robinson	2340	-5	-0.19	-0.40	0.21	-4.3	-0.17	0.19	-0.36
Kal Naismith	2077	-9	-0.39	-0.17	-0.22	-2.8	-0.12	0.10	-0.22
Nick Powell	1996	1	0.05	-0.59	0.63	3.2	0.15	-0.16	0.30
Michael Jacobs	1689	1	0.05	-0.51	0.57	3.3	0.18	-0.14	0.32
Joe Garner	1507	-5	-0.30	-0.27	-0.03	0.4	0.02	-0.03	0.05
Dan Burn	1215	-13	-0.96	0.00	-0.96	0.0	0.00	-0.01	0.01
Gavin Massey	1170	5	0.38	-0.55	0.93	2.4	0.19	-0.09	0.28
Jamie Jones	1080	-4	-0.33	-0.26	-0.07	1.2	0.10	-0.05	0.14
Darron Gibson	1054	-9	-0.77	-0.12	-0.65	-2.9	-0.25	0.07	-0.32
Gary Roberts	898	-7	-0.70	-0.17	-0.53	4.4	0.44	-0.14	0.58