It was a season of excellence in the Premier League. Manchester City became the first team to reach 100 points in a Premier League campaign. Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah broke the Premier League goal-scoring record for a single season with 32 goals in 38 games in firing the Reds back into the top four. And at the other end of the table, all three newly promoted sides (Brighton, Huddersfield, Newcastle) secured a second season in the top flight by not getting relegated.
As far as the ratings went stateside for this season, NBC also had something to cheer about. The network reached 39.3 million total viewers for the season, an increase of 14% from last year and a new record number for the networks of NBC. The average per match audience only increased by 2,000 viewers from 447k to 449k, but that’s still not bad in an age where other sports and television series are fighting to break even year-to-year.