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  • Season 27 Division 5 Stats and Facts review.

    Bilboko Athletic Kluba estatistikaren txapelduna. In honour of my wife and kids basque heritage, indeed Athletic club were the champions of the stats. +11 VA and +6 PVA leading to automatic promotion as part of a long term project.  They are narrowly ahead of Kazan and PSV on +7 and +8 VA , the two…

  • Season 27 Division 4 Stats and Facts review.

    Ajax win the league and the stats. +5VA pushed the Ajax team from playoff team to champions. A great performance from Moenchengladbach saw them come in 3rd with a +8VA, in the stats they just lead the other promoted team Liverpool who on +2 VA came 2nd in the league. Highest VA goes to Lyon…

  • Season 27 Division 3 Stats and Facts review.

    Two playoff finalists lead the stats. Perhaps it is not a surprise that the two playoff finalists are the two most over performing teams. Galatasaray +11VA and relegation candidate lead the stats just beating +6 VA St Etienne in 2nd spot. My own Sevilla come 3rd in the stats, the only automatically promoted team to…

  • Season 27 Division 2 Stats and Facts review.

    Espanyol +14VA +5PVA the stats winners. Some big winners and some big not winners in D2.  Espanyol were a potential relegation team at the start of the season but true grit, good management and transfers pushed them to promotion.  Playoff team Wolfsburg had +10 VA and could have gained promotion over Espanyol had they slipped…

  • Season 27 Division 1 Stats and Facts review

    . Chelsea well deserved champions and leaders in the stats. Usual reminder. At the start of the year, I calculated the ratings in the 4 main positions, Top18 and Average. This is plugged in a magic formula and finishing position calculated. This is used to work out the Positional value added, which is based on…

  • Sevilla end of season review.

  • FINAL DAY FRENZY: TITLES WON, HEARTS BROKEN AND EVERYTHING STILL TO PLAY FOR

    The season reaches its boiling point as clubs across all five divisions face their moment of truth. Some are already celebrating, others are clinging on for dear life, and a few are praying for miracles. DIVISION 1: CHELSEA CROWNED, BUT THIRD PLACE IS A STREET FIGHT Chelsea have stormed to the title with Barca trailing…

  • Season 27 Division 5 Stats and Facts.

    Two strong favourites for promotion, who can join them? A division of contrasts to be sure.  Some ruinously bad teams, that are for some reason uncompetitive, despite higher rated players being freely available, this could cause some skewed stats in this division if they make a number of purchases during the season. On that note…

  • Season 27 Division 4 Stats and Facts.

    Solid agreement on the top 3 in this division. There is certainly a growing trend of 2 or 3 top teams followed by a close pack of teams. Napoli are favourites with the usual top and tail technique that works well in the lower divisions. Lokomotiv are a well-balanced outfit and they are just a…

  • Season 27 Division 3 Stats and Facts

    Who will win the battle for 3rd place. West Brom and Genoa, should both be in Division 1 and would probably win Division 2 at a canter. The only thin holding back Genoa is their keeper and for West Brom maybe there could be even more depth. Zenit are the clear favourites for 3rd spot…