The Magpies spent most of the campaign battling relegation before a late resurgence allowed them to pull away from the danger zone.
In total Newcastle picked up 45 points, scoring 46 goals and conceding 62 – but how should they have fared in 2020/21?
Expected goals, or xG for short, is a metric used to determine how many time a side should score over the course of 90 minutes based on the quality of chances they create.
Of course that also means that there is a tally of expected goals conceded, and using these two figures, it’s possible to determine how many points a team is expected to take from a match.
Stats-based site Understat have thrown all of those numbers together, and the outcome is an alternative Premier League table showing where every club should have finished.
Click through the standings below...
9. Aston Villa
Actual League Position: 11th Goals For: 55 Goals Against: 46 Points: 55 xLP: 9th (+2) xGF: 56.72 xGA: 53.25 xP: 54.06 (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images) Photo: Clive Mason
10. Tottenham Hotspur
Actual League Position: 7th Goals For: 68 Goals Against: 45 Points: 62 xLP: 10th (-3) xGF: 56.68 xGA: 52.55 xP: 53.98 (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images) Photo: Laurence Griffiths
11. Leeds United
Actual League Position: 9th Goals For: 62 Goals Against: 54 Points: 59 xLP: 11th (-2) xGF: 59.26 xGA: 63.02 xP: 51.81 (Photo by Lynne Cameron - Pool/Getty Images) Photo: Pool
12. Everton
Actual League Position: 10th Goals For: 47 Goals Against: 48 Points: 59 xLP: 12th (-2) xGF: 49.24 xGA: 50.16 xP: 50.72 (Photo by NAOMI BAKER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Photo: NAOMI BAKER