Palace’s 23/24 FPL Season Review

Club

2 Jun 2024

The dust has well and truly settled on the 2023/24 season and with that came the conclusion of this season’s Fantasy Premier League (FPL) game - though some may still be dealing with the consequences of their mini-league results!

Join us as we take a look back on some of the standout Palace performers during the season in FPL, with a number of players racking up huge points tallies.

Top Five Points Scorers

Jean-Philippe Mateta (£5.1m) - 165
Ebere Eze (£6.0) - 136
Michael Olise (£5.7m) - 125
Joachim Andersen (£4.7m) - 121
Tyrick Mitchell (£4.5m) - 119

With 16 goals and seven FPL assists to his name, forward Jean-Philippe Mateta naturally tops the points list after his stellar end to the campaign. Mateta was the fifth highest scoring forward in the game, and was the joint-16th highest point scorer in the entire game - level with Arsenal’s Declan Rice.

Remarkably, the Frenchman also had the highest individual gameweek score - when he racked up a mammoth 29 points in Gameweek 34 thanks to his doubles against Newcastle United and West Ham United. He was also the Player of the Week in Gameweek 38 for his 20 point tally against Aston Villa.

Mateta’s returns also saw him have the highest number of bonus points, 22, acquired throughout the campaign and the second-highest return overall in terms of seasonal value (points per million spent) at 32.4 - only beaten by Chelsea’s Cole Palmer.

JP and Ebs reflect on a great partnership

Last season’s highest points scorer, Ebere Eze was second to Mateta this time around, with a whopping 136 points to his name. Though he spent a number of weeks out injured, he still managed to score 11 goals - his best return in red and blue - and notch five FPL assists.

Eze was also Palace’s highest performer on FPL’s ‘ICT Index,’ a combination of the player’s points in ‘Influence,’ ‘Creativity,’ and ‘Threat.’ All three of these scores are combined to create an overall ICT Index score.

That then offers a single figure that presents a view on that player as an FPL asset, especially relative to others in the same position in FPL. Eze’s ICT Index score of 228.7 saw him place 17th among all the midfielders in the league - higher than the likes of James Maddison, Bernardo Silva and Alejandro Garnacho.

Palace’s No. 7 Michael Olise scoops the bronze medal as the third highest points scorer with 125 points, thanks to his tally of 10 goals and six FPL assists.

He narrowly missed out on being the joint-highest bonus points scorer, as his 21 points was just a single point shy of Mateta’s 22. Despite this, he was Palace’s best performer in terms of points per match - with an average return of 6.6 points, level with the likes of Phil Foden and Mohamed Salah.

Olise’s performances throughout the season saw him named in the Team of the Week three times, a record shared with Mateta and Palace’s fourth and fifth highest scorers in Joachim Andersen and Tyrick Mitchell.

The defensive duo scored 121 and 119 points respectively, with Andersen being the most selected Palace player in the game. He ended the campaign in 14.1% of all FPL teams, which works out to him being in over 1.5 million teams.

Both defenders had two goals and three FPL assists each, while also managing to keep 10 clean sheets each. They even managed to average the same points per match in 3.2, the only thing separating the two was Andersen’s bonus points tally which stood at 12 compared to Mitchell’s 10.

An honourable mention for his FPL performances this season goes to Jordan Ayew (£5.3m), with 109 points to his name - the sixth highest tally and the final player to amass over 100 points. He topped Palace’s FPL assists charts with seven, and was third in number of minutes played - only behind the aforementioned Andersen and Mitchell.

Overall, with the team performing so well on the pitch, it has been one of the most fruitful in terms of FPL returns. Here’s to more of the same in 2024/25, with Palace assets delivering the valuable points needed to claim all the bragging rights and rewards from your mini-leagues.

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