The 2015/16 Premiership season: 359 different players, 40 different nationalities, 650 goals, 79 penalties and 48 red cards.

We now know who the winners and losers are, but what are the stats and numbers behind why the season panned out as it did?

Who created the most goals, who held onto the ball for the longest, who were the top performing goalkeepers and how well represented are Scottish players in our top division? We take a look at the numbers.

For all of the statistics here we've attempted to show the figures for last term, and put them into some context against the other Scottish Premiership seasons - 2014/15 and 2013/14 - to offer some kind of context to the figures.

Which players provided the most goals in the 2015/16 season? For some, assists are something of a contentious statistic in football, so we've always tried to make our definition as useful as possible.

Simply recording the last team-mate to touch the ball before another scores a goal doesn't seem to indicate any kind of creativity, so we do things slightly differently.

The definition we use (and have done since the start of the 2013/14 season) is the final, deliberate action that directly led to a goal.

This means (for example) we include killer passes, crosses, cutbacks and shots that rebound or are saved and tapped in, but wouldn't necessarily count a sideways pass that a team-mate thunders in, or the final pass from defence allowing a winger to dribble from the half-way line. We're trying to measure creativity.

Equally, it's as important to measure unassisted goals. Players who take shots form distance, force defensive errors or have tricky wingers tend to score more "unassisted" goals. Recording these is every bit as interesting as looking at who is providing defence-splitting passes.

There are a couple of interesting points to note. Firstly, Niall McGinn has been consistently providing goals in each of the three seasons of the Premiership. Equally, it's worth noting the position of the highly sought-after Greg Stewart, who has provided 22 assists in just two seasons.

This is fairly self-explanatory. Which teams were awarded the most penalties last season, and how many did they manage to convert from those chances?

What's particularly interesting here is the sheer number of penalties awarded this season, with 79 in total. Last season there were just 47, and in 2013/14 there were just 51.

Why the significant increase? It's hard to say for certain, but the number of teams with attacking full-backs and tricky wingers must offer some explanation. Maybe teams are attacking more, perhaps defences are playing slightly deeper? Perhaps the standard of defending simply isn't as good as it was last term?

It's also worth briefly looking at the players who have scored the most penalties in the Scottish Premiership...

...and those who have given the most away.

Again, this is a fairly easy one to comprehend. Here we look at the total number of red cards shown by each club.

What about which referees showed the most red cards?

Shot accuracy is an interesting statistic because it tends to tell you a lot about how a team plays. Sides with very poor shooting accuracy tend to take a lot of speculative efforts from distance, because there's little difference in the ability of an average player to put a chance on target in any given situation.

Teams with very good shooting accuracy tend to play a lot higher up the pitch, and create most of their chances in the penalty box.

Conversion rates show which teams make the most of their opportunities. Again, that may simply indicate that they create easier chances to score - balls into the six-yard box, getting behind a defence - and don't take many shots from distance. Obviously, the further back a shot comes from, the less likely it is to go in.

Although the world has moved on significantly from reading too much into a team's dominance of the ball, in terms of winning matches, it's very interesting to note which teams have averaged the highest and lowest possession, especially if we consider their relative successes this season.

Successful teams with high possession rates obviously keep the ball more, and tend to play a slightly slower pace. Good sides with low possession averages are much more likely to play on the counter, or with longer passes.

Goalkeeping statistics are tricky to use convincingly. A striker can be measured on his goals or his shooting accuracy, his work-rate or his assists. Even detailed measurements of 'keeper stats only tell part of the picture.

Great defences tend to offer fewer easy opportunities for opponents to score - penalties, tap-ins, free headers, one-vs-ones, etc - and so goalkeepers playing behind good defences tend to have easier and less frequent saves to make. The opposite is true for goalkeepers playing behind chaotic defences. Save percentage only tells part of the story.

However, as we can see from the table, there is only a relatively small difference between save percentages for the goalkeepers at the top and the bottom. There is obviously far more to goalkeepers than stopping shots. Organisation, communication, dealing with crosses and awareness are every bit as important.

What is the makeup of the Scottish Premiership? Where did the players come from, and most importantly, are we ensuring that Scottish players are getting as much game time as possible?

The following table shows the percentage of minutes played by Scottish players of the total number of minutes played last term, alongside a comparison of the last two seasons.

As we can see, there would appear to be a slight downward trend in the number of minutes played by Scottish players over the last three seasons. While the figures are still significantly higher than many leagues in Europe, it may be a concern if Scottish players are occupying less than half of the time on the pitch in our game.