Teams that can hit you on the counter attack at any moment are incredibly hard to defend against, especially when speed merchants such as Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott are running at your defence. So which teams have impressed in the counter attack and …
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The Future England Left-Back | Stats Comparison: Gibbs, Bertrand, Shaw & Rose
Ashley Cole has dominated the England left-back spot for many years, first breaking into the team against Albania in 2001, back when Sven was in charge. Wayne Bridge provided a little competition from 2002 until his last appearance in 2009. Since then we’ve seen Leighton Baines come into his own at Everton, being linked with [...]
The Future England Left-Back | Stats Comparison: Gibbs, Bertrand, Shaw & Rose
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Who are the Comeback Kings in 12/13? | Premier League Stats Analysis
Manchester United are well-known for making a comeback and Arsenal have scored more goals in the last 10 minutes of matches than any other team this season, but which teams out of the top 7 have actually been the best at coming from behind this season?…
What if half-time didn’t exist… | Premier League Stats Analysis
As I get older I am finding that I am becoming less interested in the players at clubs and much more interested in the managers. What do they do? Are they worth the money? Are they actually needed at all? Once the team is picked and the tactics discussed, is there anything that a manager [...]
What if half-time didn’t exist… | Premier League Stats Analysis
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Are Referees biased towards the Home Team? | EPL Stats Analysis
Research has been conducted looking into whether referee’s are biased towards certain teams or individuals. Manchester United tend to have a reputation from rival supporters for ‘Fergie time’, gaining more penalties than other teams at home, especially with Howard Webb. Marouane Fellaini even stated that referee’s were biased towards English players following his head butt [...]
Are Referees biased towards the Home Team? | EPL Stats Analysis
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Who Will Finish in the Premier League Top 4? | Predictions using Stats Analysis
With a quarter of the season remaining the title race looks to be sewn up. Manchester United will need to throw away a lot of points to not regain their Premier League crown and City look comfortable in second. Finishing 3rd or 4th then and qualification for the Champion’s League will perhaps offer the most [...]
Who Will Finish in the Premier League Top 4? | Predictions using Stats Analysis
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How efficient is your team at crossing? Premier League Crossing Stats
With the Premier League now entering the last 10 games of the season it is the perfect time to use statistics to draw conclusions about why your team produced success/failure. Last week my focus was on chance conversion rate. This week the focus is on crossing accuracy. The table directly below portrays the total crosses performed [...]
How efficient is your team at crossing? Premier League Crossing Stats
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How well does your team convert chances? Premier League Stats Comparison
Of course, I don’t need to tell you that the more chances a team creates the more likely they are of scoring. But do the teams creating the most chances score the most goals? The stats below show the chance conversion rate for each individual team. Not surprisingly, top of the league Manchester United also [...]
How well does your team convert chances? Premier League Stats Comparison
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Passes per Chance Created | Alternative look at Premier League Creativity
A quick analysis for you today – we’ve recently been analysing players using a statistic that indicates which players are creating chances with the least number of passes. Each chance has to be created via a pass and this is an interesting way to see which players are creating chances the most often in terms [...]
Passes per Chance Created | Alternative look at Premier League Creativity
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The best centre back in the Premier League | Top 10 Stats Comparison
My analysis today is to analyse which player is the best centre back in Premier League so far this season by comparing their statistics this season. To compare the best centre-backs in the Premier League I have taken the two most prominent centre backs of each of the top 10 clubs in the Premier League. By [...]
The best centre back in the Premier League | Top 10 Stats Comparison
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Statistical Comparison of the Premier League Top 7′s Defences
EPLIndex subscriber Mikkel Toft Petersen writes for the first time on the site with an interesting analysis of the defences in the Top 7 of the Premier League. (The analysis was written before the last set of fixtures in the Premier League.) This article will compare the best seven teams in the Premier League on basis [...]
Statistical Comparison of the Premier League Top 7′s Defences
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Premier League Players of the Week | Top Passers, Creators & Goal-Scorers!
Another excellent week of Premier League football has come and gone! We’re going to look at some of the top performers of the week – see how all the top players compared. We first look at goal scorers. There were four players that bagged a brace at the weekend: Beneteke, Kebe, Fellaini and Sissoko. Jimmy [...]
Premier League Players of the Week | Top Passers, Creators & Goal-Scorers!
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How Have Sides Fared Against Top and Bottom Half Teams So Far?
This article looks at how well each Premier League team has fared against the teams in the top half and the bottom half of the league this season. We take a look at which teams have taken the most points against the teams in the top half, as well as wh…
Dribbling Wizardry: Premier League 2012-13 so far | Stats Analysis
Dribbling is a much-admired skill in football. The best in the game are fixed into the history of the sport: players like Stanley Matthews, George Best and Diego Maradona are remembered for their almost superhuman ability to leave defenders trailing in…
Top Passers, Creators, Tacklers & Scorers in the Premier League So Far
With twenty-three matches played by all twenty clubs we thought we’d check our Stats Centre’s Top Stats area and share some of the stats from it. We usually give Top Scorers lists but these can be found anywhere – instead today the first image below will show you the best mins per goal value for [...]
Top Passers, Creators, Tacklers & Scorers in the Premier League So Far
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Which team creates & converts the most Clear Cut Chances? | Stats Analysis
This article takes a look at which teams are creating the most clear-cut chances this season; which teams make the most of these chances; and which teams are the most reliant on clear-cut chances to score their goals. A clear-cut chance can be defined as a situation where a player should reasonably be expected to [...]
Which team creates & converts the most Clear Cut Chances? | Stats Analysis
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Defensive Error Prone Players in the Premier League | Stats Comparison
Whilst watching games we usually erupt at the sight of one of our defenders or midfielders giving the ball away which ultimately leads to conceding an attempt at goal or a goal itself. This can lead to broken Televisions, broken tables sometimes even a broken foot – it totally depends on your tolerance! Well you [...]
Defensive Error Prone Players in the Premier League | Stats Comparison
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Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (11/12)
Looking at last season’s data, we can see what seems like a radical change when we compare the graph with that of four years previous. The ‘tail’ of the correlation has disappeared completely and the entire line seems to be moving towards something more linear. This is the effect of teams such as Wigan, and more [...]
Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (11/12)
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How Well Does Your Team “Fightback” When Conceding 1st? I Stats Analysis
The phrase “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” is certainly appropriate when discussing football data at a time when data is now readily available to the public should they be inclined to look at it. Manchester City have tried to raise the bar by offering data in the hope that [...]
How Well Does Your Team “Fightback” When Conceding 1st? I Stats Analysis
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Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (09/10)
In this article, I will be moving on from the 2008/09 season (Part 1) to look for some similarities or trends. In the 2009/10 season there is a similar curve in the line of best fit, and teams that are relegated could be accused of being inefficient. However, there is the beginning of a change in [...]
Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (09/10)
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Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (08/09)
Four years ago Spain used a possession-based philosophy to win Euro 2008. Since then, Spain and Barcelona have been the dominant forces in world and European football, with much of their success attributed to this style. Two footballing clichés seem to underpin this. Firstly, that possession is ‘Nine Tenths of the Law’. Secondly, that over the [...]
Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (08/09)
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An Analysis of late goals in the Premier League
In this article I am looking at the late goals in the EPL as historically more goals are scored 76-FT then any other time range. Currently there have been 124 goals scored 76-FT making up 20.8% of total goals and 2011 this was 22.3% and 2010 it was 23….
A review of final third passing data | Stats Analysis
I wrote a few weeks ago about the correlation between goals and final third passing and I think it would be a good time to review the current data as we come to the end of the year. If you look at the table at the bottom of the page you will see that M…
How important is the time of the first goal? | Stats Analysis
I thought it would be interesting to review the games which took place on 29th and 30th of December, focussing on the time of the first goal. In six of these games the first goal was scored by the away side within the first 20 minutes; of the other fou…
Players of the Week | Stats from Premier League Match Day 18
We’ve launched a new section on the Stats Centre in which you can now view stats the Top Players each week. An area designed to allow bloggers to analyse week by week in an easier way rather than the old areas in which you have to go through match by match. Most Creative Players Premier [...]
Players of the Week | Stats from Premier League Match Day 18
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Premier League Players of the Week | Man of The Match Stats: Matchday 17
Welcome to another week of Premier League Players of the Week for EPLIndex.com where I choose a man of the match from each of the nine matches last weekend and display the stats for the Man of the Match too. You can either use the page numbers at the b…
Shots on Target & Goals Stats: Using Data Analysis to form betting decisions?
Many of you may have seen the movie (or read the book) Moneyball. The story charts Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis, getting the most out of what were considered to be very average players. Can we transfer the idea of computer-generated analysis [...]
Shots on Target & Goals Stats: Using Data Analysis to form betting decisions?
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Set plays & long balls | Newcastle stats compared to the Premier League
A sullen first half or so of the season doesn’t look to be getting any brighter for Newcastle United – the 2-1 defeat to Fulham continuing Alan Pardew’s record of never coming from behind in a league game as Newcastle United manager, leaving the Toon with just 17 points after 16 games and 2 points [...]
Set plays & long balls | Newcastle stats compared to the Premier League
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Everton V Tottenham Match Preview
David Moyes will go into Saturday’s match against Tottenham looking to inspire his team to their first victory in five attempts. The Toffees have come unstuck in the last month and only picked up six points out of a possible 15. The Goodison Park out…
Deadly Defoe at the Double | Premier League Striker Stats Comparison
On Saturday afternoon at Craven Cottage, a brace for Defoe took him to four goals in a week and his tally for the season up to 9. Aside from the goals, Defoe had a relatively quiet game, making just 14 passes in the entire 90 minutes. Defoe is a player…
Newcastle United | A creativity comparison with Premier League rivals
I think we can all admit that Newcastle haven’t exactly set the league alight this season! Following on from the successes of last season and attempting to show further progress was always going to be a tough ask. But, few would have predicted that t…
Long Ball Analysis in the Premier League – Part 2 | Stats Analysis
The first part of this article was published after 6 games had been played in the Premier League – you can click here on the article titled: Long Ball in the Premier League (with no mention of Madrid or Barca) - part 2 is below. Long Ball Analys…
Which Teams Take Advantage Of The Counter Attack The Most? | Stats Analysis
To be able to hit the opposition on the counter attack when you are being penned back is an important skill to have as a team in the Premier League. If a team can go up the other end at pace and get a shot on goal it is very hard for the opposition to …
Just How Bad Are Liverpool At Scoring Goals? Stats Compared to Rivals
This article was originally published on PaisleyGates.com who subscribe to EPLIndex.com’s Stats Centre. They’ve kindly allowed us to re-publish it here for any Liverpool FC fans that may have missed it – it’s well worth a read!…
Has Your Team Improved This Season? | Points and Goals Analysis
This article looks at how well all of the Premier League teams (apart from the promoted sides) have done so far this season by looking at how many points they have taken, how many goals they have scored, and how many goals they have conceded, compared …