Bonus Point Distribution Across Player Positions

Excellent article. So pleased that community members have decided to look into this. This is yet another solid piece of research that proves defenders are doing really well this year for bonus.

Nice article, thanks.

Terrific article. Thanks MITJ

Nice article but those numbers don't add up. Sum the forwards and its 24 times with 3bps.

Making them less likely than midfielders.

Or am I missing something.

Do appreciate the work though.

Well spotted.

I'm not sure looking at the TOTAL allocation of bps is fair on forwards either. There are fewer forwards in the in the game (and in our teams) so it's not representative. Similar applies to goalies..

Another option would be to look at the average bps for each position (not hard to do just divide the totals by how many players there are for each position in the game)

Interesting article tho 🙂

Best defender for 4.6 or less for the next few weeks?

All figures are sorted now. Doesn't alter the conclusion too much either. Defenders are still doing well, Mids still doing well across the board - but also a great for max bonus and fwds are an all or nothing max bonus option. They continue to trail def and mids in terms of total bonus.

Hi guys,

terribly sorry for the wrong numbers/calculations earlier. Thanks to @Jonty for sorting them out.

Thanks

Cracking analysis. Bonus points a real way to get ahead in mini leagues

this coupled with Innsie's article sways me slightly towards Azpi over Mangala atm

Chelsea perhaps more reliable for cleanies and City are so attacking that their defenders often have to get attacking points to get any BAPs

Of course Mangala is perfectly capable of that

u have
13x3bp
14x2bp
12xbp1
on gk5

great article, maybe even a 4-5-1 formation with Aguero the striker now and again is an idea at somepoint

Hey, first off this is a great and thought provoking article. Secondly, unfortunately, it's not accurate, for example:

In GW5 you say 13 people got 3 BPs, 5 FWs, 4 MFs and 4 DFs, where in reality it's 11 people, 5 FWs, 4 MFs and 2 DFs.
You write that GKs have gotten 2 BPs 5 times, whereas they've only gotten 2 BPs 3 times.
By your calculations GKs have gotten a total of 16 BPs, but they've only gotten 13 by my count.
In GW2 you have 16 people getting 2 BPs, but 14 did.

I'm sorry I didn't go over the whole article to find out all the inaccuracies, but I just wanted to point this out.

I'd also like to note that you should keep in mind that there are far far more midfielders and defenders on the field in any given game than goalkeepers and forwards.
As an extreme and simplistic example, if every team played 3-5-1, if FWs had 100 BPs and MFs 200 BPs from the first 7 GWs that would mean(barring all subs) that the average FW got ~0.7 BPs/week and the average MF got ~0.3 BPs/week.

Obviously you have to factor into this things like there are a lot more midfielders you don't want than forwards and those midfielders are unlikely to get bonus points, etc.

One idea I got for a more accurate picture was to take the total bonus points tally by position and divided it by the number of players in that position who've A) gotten bonus points, B) played a certain # of mins, C) gotten a certain score.

For example:

Position...BPs/position..#BP receiving players......AVG BPs/player
FWD.......112................30.................................3.73
MID.........176................60.................................2.93

I used my own numbers for that which are pretty close to yours, but what those might indicate is that average bonus points for FWDs is considerably higher than those for MIDs for all FWDs and MIDs who have a reasonable chance of getting bonus points.

Further proof that goal keepers which cost more than 4.5 are a waste of resources.

Great analysis, cheers.

For those moaning that the article doesn't take into account how there are fewer forwards in each match than midfielders; bear in mind there are also fewer forwards in your FPL team than midfielders.

Good article, thanks!

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