Football stats

[Beaulux]

just make it up, he won’t know.

[Sanguine]

Gus Atkinson in the Surrey side for today's game with Essex.

Disappointed in the news that Rehan Ahmed is off to the IPL, replacing Ben Duckett. Good if Duckett plays a bit of red ball, sure. But Rehan is a big part of England's future Test team in my view - maybe he has been given an indication that a recall isn't close. Otherwise this doesn't speak much for his ambition across all formats.

Probably a last throw of the dice for the likes of Hameed and Sibley this season - if their chances aren't gone already. Rew and McKinney look like the only prospects as additions to the batting line-up. Crawley at the crease for Kent against Worcestershire - cue a timely 76 to 'remind people what he can do'.

[Winston Biscuit]

IN! before the delete!

[Sanguine]

Ffs.

[Sanguine]

Sheffield Wednesday led Watford entering injury time a couple of weeks ago, but conceded an equaliser that kept them on the path to three unwanted football league records. Subsequent defeats to Ipswich and Hull make it 33 league games without a win, approaching the league 'best' of 36 set by Derby County in 2008, and equalled by Macclesfield ten years later.

Another 'record' Wednesday might set, or equal, is fewest wins in a 46-game season. Rochdale were the last team in win only twice in a season (1973-74), but no side has ever finished a campaign with only a solitary victory.

Finally, Wednesday's last home win was on 21st April last year, 340 days ago. They have two more opportunities to win at home before becoming the first league side to go a full calendar year without doing so. Sunderland set the record at 364 days in 2017.

There's a fourth too, but it will be asterisked - the lowest points haul in a 46-game season is 20 (Doncaster, 1997-98) - Sheffield Wednesday on -6 with their deductions, but would only be on 12 points, with seven games to go, without them.

So, Sheffield Wednesday now 39 games without a win in the Championship, a football league record winless run. They have also become the first team to go a full calendar year without a home league win.

Wednesday need to beat West Brom on the final day of the season to avoid two more records - first team to win only a single game in a 46-game season, and first team not to win a single home match in an entire season.

And their points tally before deductions sits at 15. The 18 they can achieve would also be a record low, in a 'normal' season, beating Doncaster's 20.

[Winston Biscuit]

Villa won 11 out of 12 games between late September and late December. for the other 2/3 of the season they were quite sh*t.

Thats my stat of the day for you

[Brogue]

Unai Emery has won the europa league 5 times with 3 different clubs. All with Villa in the name. Villarreal savilla and Aston Villa

[Sutekh]

Latest ******* ridiculous pointless stat I’ve seen from Sky is the fact the Bellingham is apparently leading the way on “available offers for passes”. No, me neither, presume it’s where a player puts his arm up, or shouts a bit, trying to persuade the player with the ball to pass it to him.

[Winston Biscuit]

There must genuinely be people who's actual job it is at places like Opta try to think up new types of stats, and then give the stat a name that might trick youngsters on social media into thinking its an actual thing

Forward momentum adjustments
Attacking thought moments
Win focused progress movements
Arm to leg positive movement ratios
Expected successive forward applications
Targeted motion win rates

[Brogue]

There must genuinely be people who's actual job it is at places like Opta try to think up new types of stats, and then give the stat a name that might trick youngsters on social media into thinking its an actual thing

Forward momentum adjustments
Attacking thought moments
Win focused progress movements
Arm to leg positive movement ratios
Expected successive forward applications
Targeted motion win rates

Hi Leam!

[Winston Biscuit]

There must genuinely be people who's actual job it is at places like Opta try to think up new types of stats, and then give the stat a name that might trick youngsters on social media into thinking its an actual thing

Forward momentum adjustments
Attacking thought moments
Win focused progress movements
Arm to leg positive movement ratios
Expected successive forward applications
Targeted motion win rates

Hi Leam!

Looks like you are performing above expectation on your Leem Post Positive Response Rate Impact numbers

[BRO_BOT]

There must genuinely be people who's actual job it is at places like Opta try to think up new types of stats, and then give the stat a name that might trick youngsters on social media into thinking its an actual thing

Forward momentum adjustments
Attacking thought moments
Win focused progress movements
Arm to leg positive movement ratios
Expected successive forward applications
Targeted motion win rates

It just gets fed into a model and helps determine how good a player is. It will probably be a small coefficient

[Brogue]

Messi has walked 47% of the distance he's covered on the pitch this WC

[From Despair To Where?]

Messi has walked 47% of the distance he's covered on the pitch this WC

Have you seen Zidane - a 20th Century Portrait?. In that, just about the only time he breaks into anything more than a stroll is when he runs 30yds to twat someone and get sent off.

I'd like to see the stats for other players in the same game before making any particular judgement on Messi.

In the Premier League the ball is only in play an average of 60% of time.

[Winston Biscuit]

Messi has walked 47% of the distance he's covered on the pitch this WC

"Professional footballers walk an average of 3.5 to 5.5 kilometers (2.2 to 3.4 miles) during a standard 90-minute match. This low-intensity movement generally accounts for 35% to 50% of the total distance they cover on the pitch"