Now that the final league game of 2020 has been played, it seems only fitting to continue the tradition of cranking out a combined calendar year table for the Premier League and EFL clubs. This is pretty simple really – all I’ve done is to calculate one massive league table sorted in descending order of points, then goal difference and
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Now that the final league game of 2019 has been played, it seemed only fitting to continue the tradition of cranking out a combined calendar year table for the Premier League and EFL clubs. This is pretty simple really – all I’ve done is to calculate one massive league table sorted in descending order of points, then goal difference and
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Now that the final league game of 2018 has been played, it seemed only fitting to continue the tradition of cranking out a calendar year table for the 92 Premier League and EFL clubs. This is pretty simple really – all I’ve done is to calculate one massive league table sorted in descending order of points, then goal difference and
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Once again I’ve started the new season even more slowly than Harry Kane, which I’m blaming on the World Cup soaking up a lot of the time I’d usually use for building and upgrading my various data and graphics tools. Today I finally got around to finishing a revised template for my match timelines, which were one of the
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I’m trialling a new type of graphic during the World Cup ahead of what will hopefully be a more polished roll-out for next season. The idea for this was triggered by two separate problems I’ve encountered over the last few years: 1) I love playing Football Manager – I’ve been playing the series ever since CM 99/00 – but as
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I really enjoy playing fantasy football, even though I’m pretty terrible at it (this is also the case with actual football, but I digress). What I really want is the opportunity to fail at an EFL version – I remember a few seasons ago there was an official Championship one, but I’m not aware of any. Out of curiosity –
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Last year I threw together a 2016 calendar year table for the 92 Premier League and EFL clubs which people seemed to like, so now that the final league game of 2017 has been played I thought I’d create one again. This is pretty simple really – all I’ve done is to calculate one massive league table sorted in descending
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I ran a little experiment yesterday during the World Cup draw that seemed to go well, so thought I’d write it up here and collect all the bits and pieces together. A shared spreadsheet First of all, I realised that the quick spreadsheet I’d built myself to track the draw didn’t have any code in it, and would therefore work
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Over the last week I’ve produced this season’s first set of club-by-club attack breakdowns, which are explained in full here but in a nutshell compare the quality of chances that players are getting on the end of with their scoring rate. I tend to get asked two questions about these: firstly, can they be overlaid and secondly “where is Player [X]”
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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 how the graphics turned out (apart from that one year I got Bootifulgame involved: http://matchstory.co.uk/portfolio/player-churn-the-championship/). Therefore I thought it was worth having another stab at it and managed to come
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Experimental 3-6-1 
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