Who are the top FPL scorers so far and who&#8217;s leading the way in the key <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a>?
We take a look at some key pieces of data using the Hub&#8217;s <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta">Opta</a> section, with plenty of graphics to show who&#8217;s been the best as FPL managers make their selections with unlimited transfers available up to the FPL Gameweek 17 deadline.

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<h2>Top FPL points scorers</h2>
Leading goalscorer Erling Haaland (£12.2m) tops the list of overall FPL points scorers, some 21 points ahead of second-placed Harry Kane (£11.6m).
Martin Odegaard (£6.4m) and Gabriel Martinelli (£6.8m) are also on 77 points, in joint-tenth position.
<div id="attachment_51351" style="width: 1292px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-51351" class="wp-image-51351 size-full" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17.jpg" alt="" width="1282" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17.jpg 1282w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17-300x171.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17-768x438.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17-610x348.jpg 610w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17-1080x616.jpg 1080w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Total-FPL-points-GW17-1280x731.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px" />Top 10 FPL points scorers so far</div>
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<h2>Top FPL performers: The stats</h2>
Now we&#8217;ll take a look at some top fives, covering off some key Opta <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta">stats</a> and information.
Hub members can check out the Opta data for themselves in our <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/tools">toolbox</a>.
<h2>Expected goals (xG) and expected assists (xA)</h2>
xG and xA are explained in our <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/a-simple-guide-to-opta-stats-for-fpl">simple guide to Opta stats</a>, but in a nutshell they are popular metrics for fantasy managers to judge who&#8217;s overperforming and who&#8217;s underperforming.
Erling Haaland (£12.2m) for example has scored 18 goals from an xG of 12.3. That doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s going to stop scoring and he shouldn&#8217;t be in your Gameweek 17 team &#8211; some players are very clinical and consistently outperform their xG &#8211; but it does provide an indication of how he&#8217;s done against his benchmark.
<h3>Goals and xG</h3>
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51346" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-goals.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-goals.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-goals-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-goals-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-goals-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51348" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xG-top-five.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xG-top-five.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xG-top-five-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xG-top-five-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xG-top-five-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
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<h3>Assists and xA</h3>
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51345" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Assists.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Assists.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Assists-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Assists-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Assists-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51347" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xA-top-five.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xA-top-five.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xA-top-five-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xA-top-five-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/xA-top-five-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
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<h2>Shots</h2>
Haaland&#8217;s 18 goals is six better than that of Kane &#8211; but the duo have had the same amount of shots on target so far this season.
Mohamed Salah (£12.8m), who has six goals to his name, still manages to make the top five for shots on target &#8211; tied with three others &#8211;  despite being way down the goalscoring charts in joint 11th.
When it comes to shots in the box &#8211; where you&#8217;d expect the majority of goals to be scored &#8211; Haaland is top with 49, one more than Gabriel Jesus (£8.0m) and Aleksandar Mitrovic (£6.8m). Kane (43) and Salah (39) complete the top five.
Shooting from outside the box meanwhile is led by Kevin De Bruyne (£12.6m) on 25, two more than Ruben Neves (£5.5m) and three more than Brighton&#8217;s Alexis Mac Allister (£5.4m).
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51343" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-shots-on-target.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-shots-on-target.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-shots-on-target-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-shots-on-target-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-shots-on-target-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
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<h2>Creativity</h2>
As seen above, top of the assists chart is De Bruyne. City&#8217;s Belgian playmaker has 10 to his name, three ahead of Bukayo Saka (£8.0m) 
Jesus and Bernardo Silva (£6.9m) each have six, with four players including Andreas Pereira (£4.6m) and Dejan Kulusevski (£8.0m) on five.
Opta defines a key pass as &#8216;the final pass or pass-cum-shot leading to the recipient of the ball having an attempt at goal without scoring&#8217;.
And this is again De Bruyne&#8217;s domain. He is way in front of the pack on 47 &#8211; 12 more than Pereira on 35.
He also leads for big chances created, a big chance being where a player should &#8216;reasonably be expected to score&#8217;. De Bruyne has 14, with Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes (£9.8m) second on eight.
Four players, including Haaland, are tied on seven.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51344" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-big-chances-created.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-big-chances-created.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-big-chances-created-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-big-chances-created-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FPL-big-chances-created-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
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<h2>Value</h2>
The final table looks at the top five best-value players. The points per million statistic sees a players&#8217; overall FPL points divided by their price.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-51349" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Points-per-million-FPL.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Points-per-million-FPL.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Points-per-million-FPL-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Points-per-million-FPL-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Points-per-million-FPL-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />
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