The new EPL season is here and our Algorithm is ready to play

Our Moneyball approach to the Fantasy EPL (team_id: 386960)

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If this is the first time you land on one of our Fantasy EPL Blogs, you might want to check out some of our original blogs in my Medium archives to get familiar with our overall approach and the improvements we’ve made to the captain/team recommender algorithm over time.

What is new in our approach for FPL season 21/22?

• Added more predictive stats from a few new OPTA sources (xG, xA, xROI, CS probability, Easy Fixtures score etc.)
• Scraped stats for the new FPL teams — Brentford, Norwich and Watford
• Added data from EPL news feeds, to make it easy to stay up to date on things such as latest transfer, COVID news and injury updates

The New EPL Blood

Let’s start by reviewing the player stats from last season of the new EPL teams to try to find value players that have the potential for decent return.

Brentford