As we’re approaching the business end of the season, a single match can often have a huge impact on the fortunes of the teams involved so I’ve used the ratings model to identify this weekend’s most pivotal fixtures. This is done by simulating the rest of the season and seeing whose fate changes the most when their match ends in
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I realised over the weekend that it’s been a fair while since I updated the scatter graphics. 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 they
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Seeing as we’re getting to the business end of the season, I thought I’d switch an old graphic back on to see if it’s at all helpful in breaking down what’s going on. 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
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Here is the latest update of the E Ratings and how they predict the rest of the season will pan out. The rating system is explained here, but in a nutshell it’s based on the combined quality of chances that clubs create and allow, rather than their results. The attack rating broadly equates to how many goals’ worth of chances a team would
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I realised over the weekend that it’s been a fair while since I updated the scatter graphics. 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 they
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Now that we’re (roughly) at the halfway stage of the season, I thought it was worth updating 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
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Continuing the splurge of roughly-halfway-through-the-season graphics, here’s a summary and a club-by-club breakdown of how each club has used their squad. It’s sorted by how many different players each club has used (with the number who started a match used as a tie-breaker), but also shows the average number of changes to their starting XI, the number of minutes played
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