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pastenague / fantasy_2020.md
Last active September 8, 2020 03:37
My writeup on a hypothetical FPL-style points system for the Top 5 Leagues (2014-2020)

Link to Spreadsheet: Fantasy Points (Top 5 Leagues, 2014-2020)

I've also posted this as a Github Gist (on which I personally find it easier to read long-form text), so please check it out there as well if you'd like!

Introduction

If you follow other leagues apart from the Premier League, I'm sure you've wondered what it would be like to play a Fantasy Premier League-esque game for other leagues. Last year, I made a post about this topic, and this post is an update that includes data from the 2019-20 season. You can use this spreadsheet as a way to "scout" new signings from other leagues - for example, Timo Werner would have probably been a €9.5 FWD and scored ~235 points for RB Leipzig last season if he was in FPL. This could also be used to s

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pastenague / team_ambi.md
Last active January 14, 2020 15:44

Introduction

"Footedness" is a concept you're probably familiar with. Players almost always naturally prefer to dribble / shoot / pass with a certain foot. Total ambidexterity (being as comfortable using one foot as the other) is rarer, but is common enough at the top level.

One of the ways in which we can quantify footedness for a player is looking at how many shots or goals the player scores using one foot vs. the other. However, this isn't that meaningful for us because the majority of the time, we can see with our own eyes which foot a player prefers.

On the other hand, footedness of teams is more interesting to me. Here I've looked at which teams prefer one foot over the other or are ambidextrous, using a new metric I've called the "Ambidexterity Index" (AI). The source for all data described here is Understat; full credit to them.

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pastenague / fantasy_final.md
Last active September 26, 2019 04:08

Spreadsheet: Fantasy Points (Top 5 Leagues, 2014-2019)

Introduction

If you follow other leagues apart from the Premier League, I'm sure you've wondered what it would be like to play a Fantasy Premier League-esque game for other leagues. Fantasy games for other leagues do exist — La Liga and the Bundesliga have official fantasy games, while the draft-style fantacalcio (invented by Italian journalist Riccardo Albini, who was inspired by NFL fantasy football) is particularly popular among Serie A fans. However, (to the best of my knowledge) none of these fantasy equivalents use exactly the same scoring scheme as Fantasy Premier League does.