With the Premier League season at an end the Fantasy Premier League campaign has also reached its culmination.
We boil down the FPL numbers for 2016/17 to see how the Cherries squad performed, with one Bournemouth midfielder playing a key role on the final day of the season in determining which manager won the overall FPL title.
Top Cherries
The highest scoring Cherries player this season was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Joshua King. His haul of 178 points persuaded 19.3% of FPL players to select the Norwegian in their team.
The next most points for a Bournemouth man, and chosen by 9.9% of managers, was left-back Charlie Daniels. The Londoner amassing 134 points ahead of third-placed Artur Boruc.
The third most-chosen Cherries player was Adam Smith, 7% of managers picking the full-back and being rewarded by his final total of 104 points.
Slicker than your average
In terms of points per match, Junior Stanislas lead the way with an average of 5.1 a game, perhaps prompting the overall winner of Fantasy Premier League to rightly show faith in the Cherries midfielder on the final day.
King was second in the club’s points-per-game record, though third was Adam Federici, whose two appearances this season provided eight points at an average of four per outing.
Daniels’ Dream Team
Left-back Daniels also made the Dream Team five times, two times more that King and three times more than Marc Pugh, Ryan Fraser and Boruc among the team leaders.
Under the influence
Steve Cook was the fourth most influential player in the Premier League this season, according to FPL in 2016/17.
Only Alexis Sanchez, Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku topped Cook in the influence table, despite the three players above him all costing over twice as much than the defender’s £4.7million price tag.
‘Keeping pace with the leaders
Boruc was the seventh-highest scoring goalkeeper (120 points) in this year’s game, 29 points behind leader Tom Heaton and one of the best points-per-price ‘keepers in the game.
The Cherries’ top ten
Price Points total
1. Joshua King £6.2m 178
2. Charlie Daniels £5.2m 134
3. Artur Boruc £4.5m 120
4. Steve Cook £4.8m 112
5. Junior Stanisals £4.6m 107
6. Adam Smith £4.6m 104
7. Ryan Fraser £4.6m 100
8. Simon Francis £4.5m 89
9. Benik Afobe £5.3m 88
10. Harry Arter £5.0m 84
Junior senior in deciding the FPL winner
The Cherries also played a major role in crowning the winner out of the 4.5 million FPL managers.
On the final day eventual champion Ben Crabtree was two points behind rival Uwais Ahmed - and a last-minute switch involving Junior Stanislas helped Ben towards claiming his title.
With the Cherries set to take on Leicester City, Ben brought in Stanislas and Diego Costa and it was the Bournemouth midfielder and his early strike at the King Power that was a crucial factor in the direction of last-gasp FPL win.
