Here’s the weekly update of what’s still mathematically possible – and likely – this season. The way the graphics work is pretty straightforward – I just took the version I created a few years ago, which have a bar stretching between each club’s highest and lowest possible finishes, and nested a minimalist chart of my latest model predictions inside each bar.
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Here’s the weekly update of what’s still mathematically possible – and likely – this season. The way the graphics work is pretty straightforward – I just took the version I created a few years ago, which have a bar stretching between each club’s highest and lowest possible finishes, and nested a minimalist chart of my latest model predictions inside each bar.
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Seeing as we’re fast approaching the business end of the season, and with all the talk about Manchester City being able to guarantee the title in their next match, it feels like the right time to look at what’s still possible – and likely – in each division. Therefore I’ve refreshed the charts I’ve been putting out for the last
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I thought it was worth one more update of the scatter graphics before the end of the season. 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 each club compares with those
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I realised that I forgot one type of graphic from the batch I cranked out at the start of January, which is how many days each club has spent in every league position so far. These work as follows: The clubs are listed down the side, in the order they finished in the final league table Each row shows how many
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Now that we’re over halfway through the season, I thought that it was about time I updated the long-term trend graphics I introduced last year to see how each club fared throughout their last three seasons. These are explained in full here and briefly below. Explanation These are adapted from a very similar design by the excellent Swedish blogger Zorba138 intended to
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Another graphic I wanted to update at the end of 2017 is the age profiles, which give 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
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