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  • Season 28 Division 5 Stats and Facts

    Santos the clear favourites who will join them. Quick note, there were 2 obvious ABDs that I noticed and actioned as they may well have gone through before publication. Santos have a top team in most of the important categories of D5 and would be at least playoff contenders in the division above.  Fiorentina have…

  • Season 28 Division 4 Stats and Facts

    Napoli or Valencia which place in sun will be champs. Napoli are a cut above any other team in the league, a 90 rated keeper, strongest attack, strongest mid should be game set and match even at this early stage. Valencia perhaps a keeper short of challenging their Italian rivals but they should have the…

  • Season 28 Division 3 Stats and Facts

    Too tight to call at the top of D3 In division 3 unless you inherit a D1 team a compromise has to be made.  So in the block of 9 teams down to Ajax you have every variety and combination of strength and weakness that you could encounter. Zenit while well balanced are reliant on…

  • Season 28 Division 2 Stats and Facts

    Double bounce for Genoa, stats say so. As alluded to last season Genoa have a mighty team in strength and depth. The one weakness is at the back but they still are almost 1.3 pts over the 4th place team meaning promotion at least should be guaranteed. That team are Inter, who go for a…

  • Season 28 Division 1 Stats and Facts

    Chelsea the highest ranked team just above Porto, is balance the key to all things? How it all work. I calculate the average rating in the four main positions, the top 18 and the average. A formula calculates the ETOT which is the ranking each team gets based on each position. If for any reason…

  • 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…