These alternative league tables are calculated using expected goals (as seen in my match timelines). There’s a full explanation in the first post here. League 1 Don’t be surprised if Accrington climb the table as the season progresses: Stanley have only won twice so far but there have been four other games where the data suggests they did enough to take
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Here are the individual timeline graphics for the latest round of matches, comparing the quality of chances created by each team with goals scored. There’s a full explanation of these here for anyone who’s not seen them before.
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Now that we’re a decent way into the season, I thought it was worth running the club-by-club attack breakdowns. These are explained in detail here, but in summary they are simple scatter graphics that work as follows: Explanation Each graphic shows a club’s main attacking players: those who have: Featured for at least a quarter of their total pitch minutes in
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What I’ve done below is to measure how long each club has spent in each of the three main “game states” – i.e. winning, drawing and losing. I’ve then converted these into percentages because I include added time, which means that every club will have a slightly different total number of minutes played. I’ve then ranked clubs by the difference
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These alternative league tables are calculated using expected goals (as seen in my match timelines). There’s a full explanation in the first post here. Premier League Despite suffering their second defeat of the season, Man City would still be top of the table if it was calculated using expected goals, as they’ve yet to be significantly out-created. The same goes
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Now that a meaningful number of matches have been played this season, another update to the scatter graphics seems justified. These 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
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Here are the individual timeline graphics for the latest round of matches, comparing the quality of chances created by each team with goals scored. There’s a full explanation of these here for anyone who’s not seen them before.
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