Contribution to Team Play: Defenders

It's time for the concluding post from the team-player contribution series on the defense line. I've opted to not write one on goalkeepers, not because I don't consider that particular position to be as valuable as the others. On the contrary, I am a big proponent of the saying that a good goalkeeper is makes up half a team.

However, neither have I unlimited time for writing this blog, nor your time - as readers - is unlimited. Football is a game where goals are the ultimate determinant at the end of the day, and regardless of whether you're a beginner fantasy manager or a seasoned one, it's not a secret to you that attacking players tend to score a significantly larger amount of points than the defensive ones, especially goalkeepers. Thus, my decision to not allot precious air time on them in this particular analysis.

Off we go to the pretty radar plots I've compiled for you.

Visualisations

Conclusion

Thanks for tagging along for this one, too! Now that the kick-off of the FPL 2017/2018 season is steadily approaching, there's not much left here to say, but to wish all of you good luck. May the best fantasy manager lift the trophy at the end of gameweek 38! :)

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