Category: Stats

A couple of mighty team languish in the depths of division 3, will they emerge to haunt of of the top 100 or vanish without a trace. Why are PSV not top of the league, well regular underperformance is the…

Will the big 3 return to the big time? will it be a German top 3 ? Atletico are the obvious favourites, with Southampton , Schalke and Leverkusen close behind. O.K second division, so second point to note.  Some managers…

Who is top of the pile and who can over perform. Have Barcelona sacrificed depth for youth? First of all, nothing here is opinion. I don’t believe or predict that AC Milan will finish last. This is just raw stats…

Who is the top of the stats and facts this year… will it be Mr Beddows or has the Dinosaur beaten him to it.. Firstly. The stats and facts ,despite certain people who are a little hard of understanding commenting…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…