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Game State

Game State is a Substack publication by Chris Weatherspoon about the money, numbers and data behind sport. It concentrates on football finance, such as clubs working within changing financial rules, and also covers other sports and sporting data, with a regular chart series called Graphical Imagery. Here you will find its charts on Premier League revenue, Ligue 1 wages and expected goals.

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Game State treemap of combined club revenues in the first 31 years of the English Premier League, £71 billion in total, with club crests on coloured tiles sized by revenue, led by Manchester United £8,958.7m, Chelsea £6,504.3m, Liverpool £6,460.9m, Arsenal £6,448.7m and Manchester City £6,283.8m

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Premier League Revenue by Club, First 31 Seasons

By Game State

Manchester United earned the most, £8,958.7m, ahead of Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City, each with about £6.3 to £6.5 billion.

Game State treemap titled How big is the wage bill imbalance in France's Ligue 1, showing 2022/23 wage bills of 20 clubs by crest, with Paris Saint-Germain's 621.2 million euro block covering about a third of the chart, followed by Lyon 156.7 million and Marseille 147.4 million

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Ligue 1 Wage Bills by Club, PSG Against the Other 19

By Game State

Paris Saint-Germain paid €621.2m, about a third of the league total and nearly four times second-placed Lyon at €156.7m.

Game State scatter chart titled EPL 2017/18 to 2024/25, Non-Penalty Goals v Non-Penalty xG, plotting player seasons by non-penalty xG per 90 against non-penalty goals per 90 with a dashed diagonal line, over-performers such as Gareth Bale and Yoane Wissa in green and under-performers such as Gabriel Jesus in red

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Premier League Non-Penalty xG vs Goals, 2017/18 to 2024/25

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A penalty is worth a fixed 0.79 xG in Opta's model and 0.76 in Wyscout's, reflecting the share of penalties that have historically been scored.

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