Clustering Premier League Teams based on SPI, Off, Def scores

We want to know what teams in the Premier League team are alike. Using FiveThirtyEight’s1 SPI, offensive, defensive ratings to cluster Premier League teams. We can see that as expected that the big 6 teams are similar.

##  [1] "Manchester City"          "Chelsea"                 
##  [3] "Liverpool"                "Manchester United"       
##  [5] "Arsenal"                  "Brighton and Hove Albion"
##  [7] "Leicester City"           "Tottenham Hotspur"       
##  [9] "West Ham United"          "Leeds United"            
## [11] "Everton"                  "Aston Villa"             
## [13] "Wolverhampton"            "Fulham"                  
## [15] "Newcastle"                "Southampton"             
## [17] "Burnley"                  "Crystal Palace"          
## [19] "West Bromwich Albion"     "Sheffield United"

  1. https://fivethirtyeight.com/methodology/how-our-club-soccer-predictions-work/↩︎