A surprisingly popular aside last season was an animated look at how the Championship league table would be different if matches ended at specific minutes, so I’ve brought this up to date, refined it and expanded it to cover all 3 divisions. The video below advances time minute-by-minute, so it starts off showing how the … Continue reading »
Imagine what the league table would look like if every match this season had been suddenly ended at the same specific minute. For example, if every game had finished on 85 minutes, would your team be sitting higher in the table having not conceded all those last-minute equalisers and winners? One of the things I … Continue reading »
Background You may remember some monstrous graphs from last season which showed what proportion of goals scored and conceded occurred early and late in a match. These were fine but painted an incomplete picture of the distribution and required a lot of scrolling, so I’ve been looking at ways to both broaden and compact this … Continue reading »
The world needs more oversized graphs. Hot on the heels of my analysis of goals in the first 15 minutes of matches, it’s only fair that I cover the last 15 as well. The graph below arranges each of last season’s Football League clubs by the percentage of their goals which were scored in the … Continue reading »
People seem to like massive graphs, so here are a few more. I looked at how League 2 sides started and finished matches a few weeks ago, so thought it was only fair to extend these investigations to the rest of the Football League. This first graph shows all 72 teams from last season, colour … Continue reading »
Watching Torquay over the past few seasons, I’ve often found myself despairing at the number of late goals we concede. I began to wonder whether we were unusually poor at keeping things tight late on or whether this was a common problem at our level. Curiosity eventually triumphed over apathy: I took all 1,506 goals … Continue reading »
