Our third development update of the summer brings additional statistics to the members’ area and adds the first set of Fantasy Premier League Bonus Points System (BPS) tables.
For those who aren’t aware, the BPS is used to decide the distribution of FPL bonus points based on a series of statistics collected by Opta.
Our work in this area is not yet fully complete, but with the FPL set for launch next week, we wanted to get this first stage live and available to you.
Here’s what’s included in this update.
Baseline Bonus Point System Tables
We’ve added two tables to present the statistics that generate the BPS. There are tables showing both the positive and negative factors. In both tables we’ve included the Baseline BPS statistic and a Minutes per Baseline BPS.
The Baseline BPS strips out the core actions – goals, assists, clean sheets and also winning goal.
By removing these, we can get a clearer view on those players who benefit most from the “baseline” statistics in the BPS.
In this way, we can compare defenders in a single team and get a strong sense of who is more likely to return bonus points when a clean sheet is achieved.
Obviously, when assessing targets, goals and assists should be considered. But these are factors that we are all well aware of when assessing our tables and deciding on selections.
Remember, if you click on a club icon in the player tables, this will filter a table to this club alone.
Custom Table Statistics
In addition to the BPS tables, we’ve also made an array of new statistics available for use in custom tables – including statistics not listed in our current tables.
These also include statistics missed from Update Two:
Big Chances Missed Ball – A big chance missed when the player makes no contact with the ball
Big Chances Missed Shots – A big chance missed when the player connects with the ball
Big Chances Scored – big chances converted by that player/team.
The following stats have been added, supplying the calculated BPS points for their relevant action:
BPS CBI
BPS Clean Sheets
BPS Goals
BPS Recoveries
BPS Time Played
BPS Yellow Cards
BPS Baseline – the BPS tally for a player with goals, assists, clean sheets and winning goal BPS removed.
Winning Goal
During this work we also made several tweaks to some core statistics. These included Clearances which in turn had a knock on to the CBI stat – Clearances, Blocks and Interceptions.
This was a fairly minor change, which nonetheless reduced the number of clearances for some players.
Effectively, Opta stopped using a “Failed Clearance” event and replaced this with “Blocked Cross”. This new event was removed from our existing Clearances statistic to give us an updated “Successful Clearance”. This is now shown on our Defending tables and used in all CBI calculations.
What’s next?
We will first react to your feedback and look to build this in the next update. However, we plan to work with the BPS data further and add areas to the player profiles, player comparisons, team profiles and match dashboards.
We may also add a BPS area to the main Members’ Dashboard. We will then introduce all remaining statistics for use in custom tables.
We have started research on touch heatmaps. Having already refined all our touches data, we know that this now involves purely the visualisation, so we’re hopeful that once we have decided on the solution, we will make some progress in the next update.
I also want to start work on a new form guide tool for both teams and players. It’s likely we will begin preliminary work for this next week.
We are also starting our research of Expected Goals – a very popular metric in football. I’ll let this guy explain the basis of this statistic.
With our Opta event feed, we have all we need to plot expected goals. We just need to decide on an approach and methodology. This will likely be a feature we work on over a number of updates in the coming months.
Hopefully, you’ve seen enough so far to be assured that we will go on improving the features available and the site overall.
Once the season is underway, we will put more emphasis on the main site as Mat becomes more familiar with the code and set-up in that area.
You can see our current task list and track our progress through the next update via this roadmap.
You can also send your feedback and requests to me at mark@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk
Our previous updates are detailed here and here.
A reminder that, if you want access to both this update and future additions to the members’ area, you can sign up for the new season now for our pre-season price of £12.50 (RRP £15.00).
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