Experimental 3-6-1

An early look at squad churn

I’ve been looking at squad churn – how much each club’s squad changes between seasons – for a fair few years now but I’ve never been all that happy with
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Introducing long-term trend graphics

At the end of November I created a form table graphic as a way to get a short-term snapshot of how teams were faring relative to their underlying performances, but
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Squawka podcast

I was very happy to be the inaugural guest on Squawka‘s new Football IQ podcast this week, hosted by George Elek (whom some of you may know as one half
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“Victory loops” in the EFL

Given how open Leagues 1 and 2 have been this season I thought I’d try repeating last year’s exercise to see if you can make a complete 24-club closed loop
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What’s the longest amount of time that a club has gone without being top (or bottom) of a division?

Last season I coded something that used a dated list of match results to calculate the league table on every day of a season, which I used to produce these popular
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(Re)introducing visual Cann tables

After all the E Ratings, scatter plots and other esoteric fare I’ve been pumping out of late, I wanted to turn my hand to something simpler and tick off something
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Manager tenure

We’re once again approaching the stage of the season when the sackings of football managers rises from a trickle to a torrent. According to The Sack Race, 24 managers in the top four
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Other divisions

Fixture difficulty matrix: National League, 2017/18

July 5, 2017

I’ve taken the newly-released National League and combined them with an aggregation of leading bookmakers’ odds to visualise where each club’s tough and easy matches