Dribbling Wizardry: Premier League 2012-13 so far | Stats Analysis
Dribbling is a much-admired skill in football. The best in the game are fixed into the history of the sport: players like Stanley Matthews, George Best and Diego Maradona are remembered for their almost superhuman ability to leave defenders trailing in their wake. Beating defenders one-on-one excites a crowd in a way only shots and goals can match, but in the same way that a poor effort on goal from a good position can frustrate supporters, losing the ball when …
Room at the top: experimental Premier League tables | Stats Analysis
In this post I have published a few simple Premier League team stats with consideration to the insight they provide in relation to the current league table. It can be an interesting exercise to review certain measures and analyse their efficacy in explaining team performance. These types of stats should be taken with a decent pinch of salt, because at this stage in the season (and even after 38 games) the statistics are dynamic and the sample size is small …
Golden Boot Race: Graphical Analysis of Suarez, Defoe, RVP, Ba & Michu
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