The aim of this article is find out which fixtures gave us the most clean sheets last season, and to translate this information into an unbiased set of rankings that can be imported into the FFS Member's Ticker.
Which fixtures did each team register a clean sheet in?
(Ordered by No. of Clean Sheets – Descending)
17. Manchester United: SOT, hul, liv, BUR, TOT, wba, whu, HUL, lei, WAT, WBA, sun, CHE, bur, mci, sot, CPL
17. Spurs: CRY, stk, SUN, MCI, bou, SWA, HUL, CHE, WBA, sun, MID, STK, bur, WAT, BOU, cry, ARS
16. Chelsea: BUR, hul, LEI, MUN, sot, EVE, mid, WBA, sun, cpl, BOU, lei, HUL, eve, MID, wba
14. Southampton: SWA, whu, lei, LIV, EVE, MID, stk, LEI, sun, BOU, wba, HUL, liv, MUN
13. Everton: STK, sun, WHU, lei, SOT, MCI, cpl, mid, SUN, WBA, HUL, whu, WAT
13. Arsenal: lei, CHE, bur, MID, WBA, CPL, swa, HUL, WHU, LEI, MUN, sot, SUN
12. Liverpool: MUN, sot, SUN, mid, eve, MCI, TOT, wba, wat, SOT, whu, MID
12. Man City: BOU, wba, WAT, hul, whu, bou, sun, STK, sot, MUN, CPL, wat
11. Middlesborough: wba, ars, BOU, HUL, SWA, LEI, wat, EVE, swa, BUR, SUN
11. Stoke: SUN, hul, wat, BUR, SOT, WAT, CPL, MID, mci, WHU, sot
10. Bournemouth: WBA, EVE, TOT, stk, LEI, swa, SWA, sot, MID, sun
10. Burnley: LIV, WAT, mun, MID, SOT, LEI, sun, STK, mid, cpl
10. West Ham: BOU, cpl, SUN, BUR, HUL, CPL, SWA, EVE, stk, TOT
9. Leicester: ARS, BUR, SOT, WHU, mid, STK, SUN, wba, WAT
8. Swansea: bur, WAT, SUN, LEI, MID, STK, EVE, sun
7. Palace: SOT, bou, MID, wba, WAT, ARS, HUL
7. Watford: mid, swa, HUL, MID, SUN, WBA, SWA
6. Sunderland: HUL, WAT, TOT, cpl, BUR, hul
6. West Brom: cpl, MID, BUR, SUN, STK, mun
5. Hull: swa, mun, LIV, WAT, sot
How many Clean Sheets did each fixture yield?
11 = HUL, MID, WAT
10 = SUN
9 = sun
8 = sot, wba
7 = WBA, SOT, STK, LEI, BUR, cpl
6 = SWA, BOU, CPL, EVE, MUN, mid
5 = TOT, bur, hul, lei, swa, whu
4 = WHU, stk, wat
3 = ARS, CHE, LIV, MCI, bou, mun
2 = eve, liv, mci
1 = ars
0 = che, tot
Total clean sheets from HOME fixtures: 130
Total clean sheets from AWAY fixtures: 84
Equivilent FFS Ticker Ratings
The relegated teams are removed from this section of the analysis
The ticker fixture ratings range from 950 to 1350. Therefore if we set the most lucrative fixture at 950 (WAT) and the two fixtures which yielded zero clean sheets at 1350 (che, tot), we can create a trendline between the two points and equate each clean sheet total to a rating.
The trendline found is -36.364x + 1350 where x is the number of clean sheets the fixture yielded.
This equation produces the following ratings for each fixture:
Home Ratings:
Arsenal: 1241
Bournemouth: 1132
Brighton: n/a (Recommended: 950)
Burnley: 1095
Chelsea: 1241
Crystal Palace: 1132
Everton: 1132
Huddersfield: n/a (Recommended: 950)
Leicester: 1095
Liverpool: 1205
Man City: 1241
Man United: 1132
Newcastle: n/a (Recommened: 950)
Southampton: 1095
Stoke: 1095
Swansea: 1132
Tottenham: 1168
Watford: 950
West Brom: 1095
West Ham: 1205
Away Ratings:
Arsenal: 1314
Bournemouth: 1241
Brighton: n/a (Recommended: 1023)
Burnley: 1168
Chelsea: 1350
Crystal Palace: 1095
Everton: 1277
Huddersfield: n/a (Recommended: 1023)
Leicester: 1168
Liverpool: 1277
Man City: 1277
Man United: 1241
Newcastle: n/a (Recommened: 1023)
Southampton: 1059
Stoke: 1205
Swansea: 1168
Tottenham: 1350
Watford: 1205
West Brom: 1059
West Ham: 1168
1023 is lowest value of any away fixture last season, bestowed to the mighty Sunderland.
What is this nonsense?
Good question. Well, if you enter these values into your member's tickers you end up the perfect clean sheet ticker for last season. Each value is perfectly weighted to represent the amount of clean sheets it produced. It's beautiful!
However, a lot will change this season. We have new managers, new signings, and three new teams.Therefore, it may require your own tweaks and modifications. Every new signing may prompt you to load it up and tweak a value. In addition, some of last season's scorelines may have happened as a result of circumstance or luck. Some teams, in particular, endured many injuries in the same position and suffered as result. (E.g. United's centre-back issues resulted in them winning just three trophies)
Now on an informal note, I hope you enjoy this article and get good use out of the ticker. It's always nice to receive pure, unbiased statistics that we can use as a base – so that we can then manipulate and distort them based on our own personal bias', and no one elses.
If you didn't find the ticker useful, or are not yet a member (crazy fools), you can at least use this article as a reference sheet for last season's clean sheet statistics.
Clean sheet analysis from two years ago for comparison
Thanks Parm for giving me the link and inspiration for this article
6 years, 10 months ago
Lovely stuff from GB. I'll be looking at those values he offers for the ticker in light of our own default ones.
One sidenote - Everton's keepers have 14 clean sheets in FPL terms because, although they lost 1-0 to Liverpool at home, they conceded in stoppage time with Stekelenburg having been subbed after the hour mark.