The English Premier League has concluded and end of season awards are being handed out to the best performers. Based on net (non-penalty) expected goals statistic per 90 minutes who were the best (and worst) performers this season? This stat considers how many goals a player scored in light of how many goals they should have scored given the opportunities presented to them - it attempts to contextualise performance and overcome the challenges of the goals scored count.
The table below shows the top ten best and worst players. If you want to think about this very simply the players on the left hand side scored goals they shouldn't have, while the players on the right missed plenty of good chances. Diogo Jota tops the list of overperformers – given the quality of chances available to Jota, he was highly efficient and outperformed his expected goals. This will not surprise Liverpool fans, nor will the fact that Diaz and Nunez feature on the underperformers list. These players failed to convert many good opportunities.