Readers who are familiar with any of my previous output on this site may be aware that I like taking a visual approach to the numbers side of the game. Such an approach helps to make the ‘story’ stand out at a glance in a way that the tables of numbers in the members area can’t achieve.
Without wanting to open up long-standing arguments over whether a focus on statistics brings anything meaningful to Fantasy Football, I don’t think it’s controversial to say that for most Fantasy managers, the holy grail is to find attack-minded players who can both score and assist, preferably who no one else has noticed and who come at a cheap price.
The tables in the members area will certainly flag up players who score well on the threat and creativity metrics, but (with apologies to Doosra and his tables), I sometimes struggle with the tabular format of the data, and I like to apply factors like Fantasy Premier League (FPL) price or ownership to help identify the cheap differentials.
This brings me on to bubble and radar charts, a couple of formats I’ve been playing with to visualise the members data and help sift the Fantasy gold from the plethora of two-pointers.
Analysis like this always works best with a large sample size of data. With only four Gameweeks of this season gone, we certainly don’t have enough data to draw confident conclusions; only an idiot would look at the numbers and attempt to pull out any meaningful analysis.
So… I’m now going to look at the numbers and try and pull out some meaningful analysis.
8 years, 8 months agoGreat work! I've been using data visualization on my blog, but I bow before the master.