I want to focus more on the impact of individual players next season but I realised that I didn’t even have a good way of visualising who was on the pitch and when, so I’m road-testing another new graphical template that proved popular for the EFL divisions. Explanation What I’ve done for every club is to plot out their league campaign
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Continuing the immediate splurge of post-season review graphics for League 1, here are each club’s final 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 third of their total pitch minutes in the
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With the Premier League season over I thought that it was about time I updated the long-term trend graphics I introduced at the end of December 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 track
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Now that the season is over here’s a final version of the scatter graphics, each of which 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 match is on the horizontal and the average number
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Continuing today’s onslaught of end-of-season graphics for the Premier League, here’s an updated version of the squad age profile graphic. These are intended to give a quick visual overview of the age of players that each club has fielded in league matches using a technique very similar to “population pyramid” graphs, although I’ll freely admit that they’ve come out with shades
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As I’ve done for the EFL divisions, I’ve got a range of post-season graphics that I can now roll out for the Premier League, starting with this one that proved popular last year. This graphic works 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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What’s possible Here are the highest and lowest possible positions that each club can occupy after the forthcoming round of fixtures. I’ve drawn lines under the automatic promotion and play-off spots, mid-table and the last spot above the relegation zone on both “axes” for ease of reference. These graphics are explained here, but in a nutshell I crunch through every possible combination
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