Top 5 Leagues of FIFA 16

I'm back with another analysis thread. This time I added in other factors that I believe affect a player's price, and then ran some statistical regression to test if it's true. The results' links are posted at the bottom of the text!

 

The factors I included were pace, respective league, skill moves, and their position.

-Leagues were labeled 1-5 of most expensive to least expensive (1 being the highest- BPL, and 5 being the lowest- Ligue 1) based on the findings in my previous thread on P/R ratios.

-Skill moves were on a basis of 1-5 stars.

-Positions were determined on a numeric system as well, ranging from 1-3. Forwards were labeled 1 (ST, CF, LW, RW), Midfielders were labeled 2 (CDM, CM, CAM, LM, RM), and Defenders were labeled 3 (CB, LB, RB).

**I left GKs out because I ran an analysis on them separately, and saw that there isn't one particular, significant stat that makes one GK more expensive than the other besides the overall rating. Although I did find that Kicking and Speed were irrelevant.

 

Notes and Highlights!

i) Of the factors that I tested, there were 3 that were significant. The most was (obviously) the player's rating itself. No surprise there. Behind a player's rating was Pace in 2nd place, followed in 3rd place by Skill moves. 

Therefore, while the BPL may have the highest average cost of their top 60 players, the league that a specific player is in is irrelevant when us gamers determine their price in the market. Meaning that the reason BPL players cost more is because 1) they have a higher average rating, 2) they have a higher average pace, and 3) they have higher average skill moves compared to the other leagues. So, viola! Now you can tell all your friends that BPL players aren't more expensive just because they're in the BPL!

ii) On average, we expect a card's cost to increase by 12,927 Fifa coins for every increased overall rating.

iii) On average, we expect a card's cost to increase by 721 coins for every increased point in pace.

iv) On average, we expect a card's cost to increase by 9697 coins for every extra star of skill moves they have.

v) I, again, left out Messi and Ronaldo from the observations simply because of how much they skew the results. As an example, if I left in Messi and Ronaldo, then the previous point (ii) would change from an increase of 12,927 coins per rating to over 24,000 Fifa 16 coins per rating. Which is obviously not accurate when speaking about averages!

 

Here are the links to the Excel files on Google Docs. Let me know if you guys have any questions, suggestions, or problems with the files! I plan on continuing these price analysis posts to expand to more leagues (Russian, Portuguese, Eredivise, etc.), more factors (international reputation, weak foot, correlation of the amount of 'likes' a card has on futhead, etc.), including informs, silvers, and anything else I can find to help out in understanding the market (it's kind of what I do for a living haha)

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