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Who is the best Premier League right-back? | Stats Comparison

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When you’re sitting in the pub with your mates, picking your favourites of the Premier League, the one position that has to be the hardest to choose a winner for is the right-back. It is not in any way as easy as left-back, with Ashley Cole usually taking that spot, and Leighton Baines coming through [...]

Who is the best Premier League right-back? | Stats Comparison

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Who should partner Rooney for England? Carroll, Sturridge, Defoe & Welbeck compared

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England’s squad for their summer friendlies with the Republic of Ireland and Brazil were revealed yesterday and the one position that is up for debate more than any is the 2nd striker role. Although there is the possibility of Roy Hodgson only choosing one striker, having watched Hodgson in charge of West Brom last season [...]

Who should partner Rooney for England? Carroll, Sturridge, Defoe & Welbeck compared

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Top Counter Attacking Teams This Season | Opta Stats Analysis

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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 …

Who are the Comeback Kings in 12/13? | Premier League Stats Analysis

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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

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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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Who is the Player of the Year? Suarez, Bale, RVP & Mata Stats

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There has been a lot of debate with regards to the Player of the Year for the 2012/13 season and with the debate in mind we thought we’d put together a brief statistical analysis of the players being mentioned and their form this season. We’ve predominantly used goals scored and clear-cut chances as the two [...]

Who is the Player of the Year? Suarez, Bale, RVP & Mata Stats

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Lambert for England? Stats compared to Rooney, Sturridge, Defoe et al

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Before the game against Chelsea, Southampton’s midfielder Jack Cork started psywar  by stating that The Saints’ ace striker, Rickie Lambert is better than Fernando Torres. What Cork was saying could be perceived as nothing but a usual pre-battle war dance, but not only did Lambert play superbly in that game, the talisman scored the winning goal [...]

Lambert for England? Stats compared to Rooney, Sturridge, Defoe et al

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Are Referees biased towards the Home Team? | EPL Stats Analysis

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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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Premier League Top Players So Far | Goal Scorers, Chance Creators, Assists, Possession Wins

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Welcome to our monthly edition of the Premier League’s Top Players. With only 8 games left for the majority of the sides it’s a good time to look at where players are and see what players could achieve. As always you can use the buttons at the bottom of the page to navigate or use [...]

Premier League Top Players So Far | Goal Scorers, Chance Creators, Assists, Possession Wins

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The Rising Importance Of A Footballing Philosophy In The EPL

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For the purposes of this article, a footballing philosophy is defined as: a set of beliefs about how football should be played on the field tactically. Football tactics are assumed to be that of the strategy(-ies) employed by a team to defend, attack and everything in between (the two transitions of losing the ball and winning the ball). The definition of [...]

The Rising Importance Of A Footballing Philosophy In The EPL

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Who Will Finish in the Premier League Top 4? | Predictions using Stats Analysis

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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

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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

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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

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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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Overrated or Underrated: Raheem Sterling | Stats Analysis

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For Liverpool fans he was a bright spark of possibility and hope at the beginning of what looked to be a dismal season. Yet as the season has progressed and Liverpool have gotten stronger, Sterling seems to be disappearing somewhat. It is true that he …

Premier League Form Guide Analysis | Manchester United, Spurs & City at Top

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The Premier League table seems to take form after around ten games and not have many major changes throughout the season however the form guide is an interesting table to analyse every six games or so because of the radical changes that can occur. This season Manchester United have maintained the position of first or [...]

Premier League Form Guide Analysis | Manchester United, Spurs & City at Top

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Statistical Comparison of the Premier League Top 7′s Defences

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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!

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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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Possession Football: How Spanish success changed the Premier League (09/10)

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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)

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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

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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

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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…

The Dirtiest Teams In The Premier League | Stats Analysis

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Several teams in the Premier League have been branded as ‘dirty’ teams over the years, but which teams actually deserve the title of ‘dirtiest’ this season? We take a look at which teams have committed the most fouls this season, as well as which teams have received the most yellow cards. We have also looked [...]

The Dirtiest Teams In The Premier League | Stats Analysis

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How important is the time of the first goal? | Stats Analysis

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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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Premier League Form Guide Analysis | United top, Stoke & Norwich flying high!

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It’s always interesting to take a look at the form guide from time to time. Last month saw Manchester City and Manchester United sitting at the top of the form guide however a few things have changed – Manchester City have moved out of the …