Newcastle United star revealed as one of the best players outside of the Premier League ‘top six’ with West Ham, Wolves and Brighton also represented

The so-called Premier League ‘top six’ always seem to dominate Premier League statistics, leaving the ‘other 14’ often cast aside.

However, research conducted by BetVictor has aimed to correct this and have ranked the best players outside of the ‘top six’.

To do this, players were sorted and grouped by shared position and their statistical profiles were input into the ranking algorithm. The algorithm is designed to find the player with the most optimised output per 90-minutes by calculating a Z-score (standard score) per performance statistic and average Z-score per player. A high average Z-score indicates that a player is outperforming other players in that position across multiple statistics.

Using this data, we have ranked each player by their ‘Average Z-Score’ (from lowest to highest) to see who are the best non-’top six’ players in the Premier League this season:

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