A quick explanation You can skip this if you’ve seen these before. As usual, here are timeline graphics for the latest round of matches. There’s a full explanation of these here, but in a nutshell they track how each club’s expected goals tally (the number of goals that the average team would have scored from the chances that they created) increased over the course of
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Here’s another update to the scatter graphics, which compare the attacking and defensive performances of every team in a division. Each of the four graphics is explained briefly below and at length here. Shot dominance First of all, here is how the number of shots taken by each club compares with those they face in return. The average number of shots taken per
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A quick explanation You can skip this if you’ve seen these before. As usual, here are timeline graphics for the latest round of matches. There’s a full explanation of these here, but in a nutshell they track how each club’s expected goals tally (the number of goals that the average team would have scored from the chances that they created) increased over the course of
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Today I’m switching another graphic from last season back on. This one looks at how each club has used their squad, and in addition to individual graphics for every team I’ve also created a summary of the division as a whole. It’s sorted by how many different players each club has used (with the number who started a match used
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Today I’m resurrecting another graphic from last season, which gives a compact and colourful look at the age of players deployed by each club. Hopefully they’re fairly self-explanatory, but here’s a quick summary anyway: For each club I’ve added up all the league minutes played by every player this season and calculated the percentage accumulated by players of every age,
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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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With every EFL club into double digits for games played and the Premier League on seven, it feels like a good time to update the form tables. These are explained here in full, but put simply they visually rank each team based on both their results and underlying performances over the last six league matches. Clubs are ordered based on their
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