Fantasy Football – Maths Coursework – Statistics

Fantasy Football – Maths Coursework – Statistics

My coursework is based on the game ‘Fantasy Football’ which is ran by

the British newspaper called ‘The Sun’.

Fantasy Football is a competition based on building your own ‘dream

teamÂ’ and collecting points to try and have the most points at the end

of the season with your team, to win the cash prize. All the players

from the English Premiership are used and a scoring system is used to

see how well the players are doing and who has picked the best eleven

players for their team. You are allowed to create your own team

consisting of 1 goalkeeper, 4 defenders, 3 midfielders, 2 attackers

and a ‘sub’ which must be either an attacker or midfielder. All the

players are valued depending on how well they play and the number of

points they have from last season. Competitors have a total of

£40million ‘money’ to spend on their players. A scoring system is used

and players can both gain and loose points. The points for all the

players on your team are added up at the end of the season and the

competitor who has the team with the most points wins.

I am going to find out how to pick the top-scoring team and I will do

this by using last yearÂ’s scores. I will use the 2003 scores as they

were at the end of the season. I will not be including goalkeepers in

my investigation because they have a different scoring system to

defenders, midfielders and attackers. To do this I will use two

hypotheses:

Hypothesis 1

I think that attackers achieve more points than midfielders and

defenders.

Hypothesis 2:

I think that 7+ Ratings will affect the number of points more than

goals or clean sheets.

The scoring system for attackers, midfielders and defenders is as

follows:

Achieving a 7+ rating: +3 points

Achieving a Star Man Award: +5 points

For scoring a goal: +5 points

For scoring 3 or more goals in one match: +5 points extra