Data HQ — Deep Dive 02

The Player Pool

Nine hundred and twenty-one names were technically available this season. Thirty-nine of them were elite — and that 4% produced a fifth of every fantasy point scored in the league. This is the page about everyone: the tiers, the scarcity, the real clubs that fed the league, the journeymen, the one-week wonders — and a lab to settle any two-player argument.

How Many Players Actually Mattered

Tiers are percentile bands of real FP/G (season FPts ÷ games actually played, min 10 appearances) within each position. Bar width = share of all 921 players; the right column shows each tier's share of every point scored league-wide.

Where the Elites Were Thin

Coverage = players in this tier vs the position's average number of starting slots per gameweek, measured from actual lineups (G 12.0 · D 42.8 · M 48.4 · F 28.8). This is the scarcity number raw counts hide — more elite midfielders exist, but midfield demand is 4× goalkeeper demand.
Four Markets, Four Economies

FP/G Leaders MIN 10 APPS

Finishing Luck — Overperformed xG

Finishing Luck — Underperformed xG

Where the Points Came From

By Position

By Tier

The Real Table vs the Fantasy One

Settle the Argument

Pick two players for a head-to-head butterfly, or three for a radar (axes are percentiles within the 469-player pool with 4+ appearances). The race chart below tracks cumulative FPts either way.

Up to 3 players · stats are full-season, all gameweeks · small-sample players carry their apps count
Free Talent and Frequent Flyers

Best Never Rostered FREE ALL SEASON

The Journeymen MOST FANTASY HOMES

The Streaming Sirens

Players whose single best gameweek dwarfed everything else they did — the names that made managers smash the waiver button on Monday and regret it by Saturday.

Cards, Chaos and Own Goals

Fantasy points surrendered to discipline, priced at the empirically fitted card weights (yellow ≈ −2, red ≈ −5 to −7.5 by position) — only gameweeks where the player sat in a starting lineup count. Plus the own-goal merchants.

Card Offenders FPts LOST IN ACTIVE SLOTS

The Saboteurs OWN GOALS