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...
13. Wolves
Actual League Position: 13th Goals For: 36 Goals Against: 52 Points: 45 xLP: 13th (=) xGF: 38.62 xGA: 52.19 xP: 44.26 (Photo by Catherine Ivill/Getty Images) Photo: Catherine Ivill
14. Southampton
Actual League Position: 15th Goals For: 47 Goals Against: 68 Points: 43 xLP: 14th (+1) xGF: 45.28 xGA: 58.55 xP: 44.17 (Photo by John Sibley - Pool/Getty Images) Photo: Pool
15. Newcastle United
Actual League Position: 12th Goals For: 46 Goals Against: 62 Points: 45 xLP: 15th (-3) xGF: 43.96 xGA: 60.02 xP: 42.65 (Photo by Alex Broadway/Getty Images) Photo: Alex Broadway
16. Fulham
Actual League Position: 18th Goals For: 27 Goals Against: 53 Points: 28 xLP: 16th (+2) xGF: 41.06 xGA: 57.64 xP: 42.42 (Photo by Matthew Childs - Pool/Getty Images) Photo: Pool