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...
17. Burnley
Actual League Position: 17th Goals For: 33 Goals Against: 55 Points: 39 xLP: 17th (=) xGF: 38.13 xGA: 59.03 xP: 38.10 (Photo by Carl Recine - Pool/Getty Images) Photo: Pool
18. Crystal Palace
Actual League Position: 14th Goals For: 41 Goals Against: 66 Points: 44 xLP: 18th (-4) xGF: 35.29 xGA: 61.9 xP: 37.95 (Photo by HENRY BROWNE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Photo: HENRY BROWNE
19. Sheffield United
Actual League Position: 20th Goals For: 20 Goals Against: 63 Points: 23 xLP: 19th (+1) xGF: 33.16 xGA: 66.11 xP: 29.92 (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images) Photo: George Wood
20. West Brom
Actual League Position: 19th Goals For: 35 Goals Against: 76 Points: 26 xLP: 20th (-1) xGF: 34.97 xGA: 74.04 xP: 29.59 (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) Photo: Stu Forster