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  • Division 5 Season 4 Value Added

    Dynamo Moscow win the league and get the highest rating, credit goes to Santos for a good season.  Twente and even 5th place Torino fail to impress again. Controversial a 5th place team lowest in the ranking? Well not considering the side they have. An 89 keeper and 90 rated forward , should have been…

  • Division 4 Season 4 Value added

    Hellas and Sassuolo lead the charge. Monaco and West Ham some of the worst performing in all 4 leagues. Again a good example of where a skew works well . Sampdoria have the highest raw VA at +12 but in all honesty 4th place hasn’t won them any prizes yet!.  Hellas and Sassuolo gain auto…

  • Division 3 Value Added Season 4

    Sporting Lisbon’s fantastic run to the title gives them the biggest Skewed value average so far, Boca , so near so far at the moment.  PSV fall well short of the mark. GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Average Finished VA Skew 10 SPORTING CP 88.0 87.5 89.0 89.0 85.0 87.7 1.0 9.0 9 6 Swansea…

  • Season 4 Division 2 Value Added

    Internacional get the biggest gain, but Everton clinching the title gets the overall award. Shaktar and Inter Milan the biggest disappointments. GK DEF MID ATT Top18 Average Finish VA Skew 3 Everton 90.0 89.5 91.0 90.0 88.0 89.7 1.0 2.0 2 19 SC Internacional 88.0 87.5 88.0 88.5 85.0 87.4 10.0 9.0 0.9 5 AS…

  • Season 4 Value Added Division 1

    AC Milan out perform the rest, Napoli put in a good turn. PSG and Man City the worse performers This year I will rate teams by raw and skewed value added, which divides value added by finishing position. This works particularly well for judging performance above the level expected but less well for -ve scores…

  • Presents from Portugal for Division 1

    What to give to those that have it all? Well it is Christmas.    Top team has to go to Bayern Munich who are the shining stars that we all must follow this Christmas. Here the WAGS celebrate their awards in traditional Germanic costumes,   They are awarded a free adopt a snow leopard pack. …

  • More Christmas goodies to divisions 3 and 2.

    More Christmas joy from Papai Noel. Who have been the good boys and girls this year.     Well as I like giving stuff to myself, it’s obvious that Sporting Lisbon are the best team in division 3. So I receive the traditional Bolo Rei or King cake.  Most improved team are Boca Juniors so…

  • Bem-vindo a Portugal e Feliz Natal some Christmas gifts to divisions 5 and 4

    From the warmth of Lisbon , Mrmalcolm settles down with a couple of Portuguese tarts and awards a few Christmas gifts to those most in neeed in Divisions 4 & 5     Yum. What lovely food they have in Portugal, I have been given a life time supply of these lovely dishes for turning…

  • Division 5 , the only way is up

    Difficult to look past the super team of Torino, so who will finish second. You could easily argue that D5 follows the pattern of D1,2,4 only broken by the free spirited thinkers of D3 , that there must be 2 teams much better than all the rest. Is this some kind of evolutionary state or…

  • Division 4 stats and facts.

    There should be two teams already dominating this division. Monaco and Olympiacos.  While not doing badly, they are 5 points away from where they should be. Division 4 too a certain extent follows the pattern in divisions 1 and 2 . Two teams much better than the rest with a pack of decent teams following…