Premier League records and statistics Puns

A friend of mine sent me an infographic yesterday that compared the league goals and assists for Bobby (12/6) and Lukaku (12/5), the inference being that too much praise is given to Firmino and too much criticism Lukaku. I know I should know better than to debate someone when an infographic (and one from Bleacher Report, at that) is the crux of their argument but I bit nonetheless.

Although i don't doubt the stat is correct, six league assists for Firmino doesn't do any justice to his vision and passing ability or to his unselfishness so I looked at big chances missed. Salah (despite his ridiculous goal return) has missed 18 big chances this season. Mané has eight. Lukaku himself has ten, and Lingaard and Pogba have combined for another twelve. That's 26 big chances missed between two players against 22 big chances missed between three players, which would suggest that our players are creating more in general. It would also suggest that Firmino has a higher conversion rate as he doesn't even appear in the top twenty of big chances missed.

tldr: does the Premier League keep chances created as a stat so I can shove it down my friend's throat?

Thank you, Europa League.

I will not accept any context applied to this statistic.

Now that the LAN is over here are the stats for the tournament. As always you can view the raw data here and let me know if you guys see any mistakes. There were 64 Games played over 5 days of tournament play.

Pick/Ban Rate

While in general this tournament had a wide variety of champs and comps played, something very interesting is that it also had the most ignored characters also. I have heard that Evie has a LAN specific bug with blink delay so that is why she wasn't played but as for the rest of the champs i am about to list no team thought that they had enough value to try them out: Ash Evie, Grohk, Lex, Moji, Talus, Viktor, Vivian, Tyra, Willo, Ying. Even Skye was picked by G2.

Ban Rate

Huge Variety in the bans for this tournament however its not shocking that Makoa, Ruckus, and Maeve dominated the bans. Something interesting is that Bomb King was almost never banned this tournament. He was banned once by Burrito against Renegades

Pick Rate

Here are the Pick rates for the tournament and again its no surprise that Mal Damba was in almost every game closely followed by Inara and Jenos. I would like to note that Torvald was only picked once which makes me wonder if he is under powered or he doesn't fit the current meta.

Win Rates

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For anyone who's thinking that I need to up the difficulty, two things:

First, here's the table at the moment. You'll notice that I'm also in danger of breaking the PL record for Most Goals Conceded in a season (which is 100 for a 42 game season and 89 for 38 game season). We play high scoring football matches, and I only use 1 striker.

https://preview.redd.it/8h1untjjng361.png?width=1919&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fe52ef3fdfae8ff155a402933f725deb3756648

And second, I play on Ultimate with sliders absolutely corked in favor of the AI.

Here's my sliders:

Mészáros really is just that good.

Some huge caveats like leagues they came from (2nd tiers, farmer leagues, etc) and characterization of their minutes (only substitute, against tired legs of starters)

Some new attacking players to the league ranked by mins per goal or assist over the last 2 seasons:

1 Teemu Pukki £6.5m FWD in FPL

• Played 5,706 mins 40 Goals, 17 Assists
• G or A every 100.11 mins

2 Neal Maupay 6.0 FWD in FPL - Brighton

• Played 6,031 mins. 37 Goals, 13 Assists
• G or A every 120.62 mins

3 Billy Sharp £6.0m Forward in FPL - Sheff Utd

• Played 5,387 mins 36 Goals, 8 Assists
• G or A every 122.43 mins

4 Sebastien Haller £7.5m Forward in FPL West Ham -

• Played 4,532 mins 24 Goals, 13 Assists
• G or A every 122.49 mins

5 Nicolas Pepe. £9.5m Midfielder in FPL. Arsenal -

Played 6,178 mins. 35 Goals, 15 Assists.

G or A every 123.56 mins.12

6 Leandro Trossard £6.0m Midfielder in FPL. Brighton -

• Played 4,049 mins. 21 Goals, 9 Assists
• G or A every 134.97 mins

7 Wesley. £6.0m Forward in FPL. Aston Villa -

• Played 4,020 mins. 17 Goals, 11 Assists.
• G or A every 143.57 mins

8 Moise Kean £7.0m Forward in FPL Everton -

• Played 1,664 mins 10 Goals, 1 Assist
• G or A every 151.27 mins

9 Callum Robinson £5.5m Midfielder in FPL Sheff Utd -

• Played 4,610 mins 20 Goals, 10 Assists
• G or A every 153.67 mins

10 Che Adams £6.0 Forward in FPL Southampton -

• Played 5,275 mins 27 Goals, 7 Assists
• G or A every 155.15 mins

11 David McGoldrick £5.5m Forward in FPL Sheff Utd-

• Played 4,875 mins 21 Goals, 9 Assists
• G or A every 162.5 mins

12 Mario Vrancic £6.5m Midfielder in FPL Norwich -

• Played 4,084 mins 11 Goals, 9 Assists
• G or A every 204.2 mins

13 Allan Saint-Maximin £5.5m Midfielder in FPL Newcastle -

• Played 5,198 mins 9 Goals, 12 Assists
• G or A every 247.52 mins

14 Pablo Fornals £6.5m Midfielder in FPL West Ham -

• Played 5,103 mins 5 Goals, 15 Assists
• G or A every 255.15 mins

sauce Andrew Gower @goweramg on twitter

Most Appearances

1. Aubameyang - 36
2. David Luiz - 33
3. Pepe, Xhaka - 31

Most Matchday Squad Inclusions

1. Martinez - 38
2. Pepe - 37
3. Aubameyang, David Luiz - 36

Most Minutes Played

1. Aubameyang - 3139
2. David Luiz - 2811
3. Leno - 2650

Most Goals

1. Aubameyang - 22
2. Lacazette - 10
3. Pepe - 5

Most Assists

1. Pepe and Lacazette - 6
2. Saka - 5
3. Aubameyang - 3

Most Yellow Cards

1. Xhaka - 10
2. Lacazette - 8
3. Torreira - 7

Most Red Cards

1. David Luiz - 2
2. AMN, Aubameyang, Nketiah - 1

Fun Fact - Eddie was our only player to be sent off but not receive a yellow card, and only one of 5 to not receive a yellow card (Eddie, Smith-Rowe, Monreal, Mari and Cedric)

Most Subbed On

1. Willock - 21
2. Torreira - 12
3. Nelson - 10

Most Subbed Off

1. Lacazette - 13
2. Ceballos - 12
3. Pepe, Ozil - 11

Highest Points Per Game

1. Nacho Monreal - 2.00
2. Nketiah - 1.85
3. Cedric - 1.80

Lowest Points Per Game

1. Smith-Rowe - 0.50
2. Martinelli - 1.21
3. Chambers, Guendouzi - 1.29