League expectations are up

Each club receives an expectation based on last season's position, squad strength and club infrastructure (cash left over and size of stadium). Since everything is almost identical, we pretty much only have squad strength to go on. I tallied each team's total primary skills and divided them by the amount of players, to make the rankings for this season and came up with the following:

Position	Team	Primary Skill Average
1st	Chelsea	16.10
2nd	Arsenal	15.98
3rd	Manchester City	15.86
4th	Manchester United	15.83
5th	Tottenham Hotspur	15.60
6th	Newcastle United	15.42
7th	Liverpool	15.36
8th	Fulham	15.29
9th	Everton	14.83
10th	Crystal Palace	14.29

Averages may change if there needs to be last-minute changes to ratings but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. I think the main reason that Arsenal is 2nd is because of guys like Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chamakh and Vela, who are 16-rated but have to be turfed to the reserve squad, so it creates extra depth and a higher average rating than some would expect.