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The alternative Premier League tables | Possession, Chances Created, Shot Accuracy

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Ok so Manchester United won the Premier League, comfortably. There’s no denying the other teams just weren’t good enough, or weren’t consistent enough to seriously put up a challenge. But what got me thinking whilst trawling through all the stats, was what would the league table look like if it was sorted by different categories? [...]

The alternative Premier League tables | Possession, Chances Created, Shot Accuracy

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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 …

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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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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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…

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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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…

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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Newcastle United | A creativity comparison with Premier League rivals

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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…

EPLIndex Statistical Team of the Week | Premier League Match Day 12

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It’s the end of another fascinating week in the Premier League and time for the EPLIndex Statistical Team of the Week.   John Ruddy [Saves + Clean Sheet] Ruddy kept a clean sheet, making some important saves along the way. The ‘keep…

Which Teams Take Advantage Of The Counter Attack The Most? | Stats Analysis

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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 …