We Know Your First 3 Weeks Sucked, So Check Out These FPL Week 4 Picks, Predictions

Congrats, you made it through the week and it's time to forget about politics and global pandemics and gather around a true water-cooler topic: the Fantasy Premier League. I'm currently in the process of improving the current algorithm, and a fresh data-driven article about that will be out soon. I'm sure you're all thrilled with that news, so stay tuned. 

Nevertheless, I fed Game Week 3's data through the current point predictor, and here are the best bargains and worst picks for Game Week 4. (Check out last week's predictions here.)

This time, the data is in the format of: player name, position, team, predicted points, cost. 

FPL Week 4 Picks

Best Bargains 

1. Martin Kelly — DEF — Crystal Palace — 3.15 — £4.4
2. Matthew Ryan — GKP — Brighton — 3.19 — £4.5  
3. Ederson — GKP — Man City — 4.25 — £6.0
4. Angus Gunn — GKP — Southampton — 3.16 — £4.5
5. Sebastian Haller — FWD — West Ham — 4.4 — £6.3 

Worst Pick-Ups 

1. Florin Andone (injured so duh) — FWD — Brighton — -0.19 — £4.9
2. Max Kilman — DEF — Wolves — 0.04 — £4.0
3. Rhian Brewster — FWD — Sheffield — 0.09 — £4.5
4. Kieron Freeman (went on loan so duh) — MID — Sheffield — 0.10 — £5.0
5. Kortney Hause — DEF — Aston Villa — 0.10 — £4.5  

You'll see that the model has cleverly picked injured and loaned out players as some of the worst performers. Best of luck to everyone this weekend and stay tuned for more updates. If you would like to follow the project along on GitHub you can follow this link.