- Who got the easy start? First five games in England, Spain and Germany
Every club's first five league games in the Premier League, La Liga and the Bundesliga, ranked from the hardest opening to the easiest.
- What a wage bill buys
Across Europe's top seven leagues, pay explains most of team strength — but the clubs off the line are the interesting ones.
- How we turn betting odds into team strength
Why betting odds tell you more about a team than results or xG — and how we read team strength straight out of them.