Football stats

[BR0B0T]

Sure, but albeit over the course of the season, and for a team comfortably in the top half, you wouldn't expect that stat to be particularly skewed by anything.

No but be interesting to see what the xG against is for Chelsea. May give a rough idea of if he is actually having a mare or not.

Can't stand the guy after his refusal to be subbed last season so not really fussed if he is just shit.

FWIW, I think that stat is one of the few I would not expect to 'average out' and to remain skewed.

Goalkeeper stats are still very much in their infancy.

I'm with Papes, one season is a relatively small sample so would expect variance

However, I don't see many keepers being able to consistently outperform their expected saves numbers over five seasons or so

Haven't bothered to look this up, mind!

[stealthpapes]

Not just that, its so dependent on, in order of decreasing impact, the tactics of the team, the nature of the defenders in front, and then, finally, freak occurances, that I would expect the effects of that to dominate. Like fielding stats in baseball.

The number of shots on target in a game is going to be one of the smallest numbers, per game, you could monitor, with goals the only significant one below.

[Sanguine]

Here's a good one. Coventry City currently second in League One - if they finish fifth or higher, it will be their highest finish in any league since they won the then Second Division in 1966-67. Since then they've finished no higher than sixth, and in the top half only 12 times in 52 seasons.

It's a bit of a slow death for their fans. Before their Premier League relegation in 2000-01, they came in the 15th or lower four times in six seasons. And before relegation from the Championship in 2011-12, they finished 17th, 21st, 17th, 18th and 19th in consecutive seasons.

And I thought being a Rochdale fan was depressing....

[stealthpapes]

Jimmy Greaves is often the answer to a lot of these "youngest player" questions. He would have been 21 or 22 when he hit 200 appearances in England and Italy. He was 20 when he scored his 100th league goal.

on that note, the Greaves documentary on BT sport is well worth the time.

[Winston Biscuit]

Clubs who are most represented by goals scored in the final of the world cup:

7 - Inter Milan
5 - Juventus
3 - Bayern, Santos
2 - Botafogo, Honved, West Ham, Sao Paulo, Penarol, Nacional

[Pepe the Horseman]

Saw this one earlier - The foreign nationalities with the most golden boots in each European top division.

[Franchise FC]

Clubs who are most represented by goals scored in the final of the world cup:

7 - Inter Milan
5 - Juventus
3 - Bayern, Santos
2 - Botafogo, Honved, West Ham, Sao Paulo, Penarol, Nacional

Given that West Ham got all four in ‘66, how does that work
Goalscorers perhaps

[Winston Biscuit]

Clubs who are most represented by goals scored in the final of the world cup:

7 - Inter Milan
5 - Juventus
3 - Bayern, Santos
2 - Botafogo, Honved, West Ham, Sao Paulo, Penarol, Nacional

Given that West Ham got all four in ‘66, how does that work
Goalscorers perhaps

Yeah meant to say goalscorers

[Winston Biscuit]

Was looking at some records over the weekend to see when Ronaldo might break some more, and spotted that the person with the 2nd most professional appearances ever is still playing, still first choice for his club and is now 63 games away from breaking Peter Shilton's record

Fabio, the Fluminense goalkeeper, is 43 years old, about to turn 44, and still playing as first choice for them. If you weren't aware, Fluminense are one of the big boys of South American football and were Copa Libertadores winners (South American Champions League) for the first time in their history just last year, so fair play to him. Looks like they are in a relegation scrap right now though.

[Sanguine]

Saw this one earlier - The foreign nationalities with the most golden boots in each European top division.

Found this fascinating as some of them aren't obvious at all. In France, Carlos Bianchi and Delio Onnis were top scorers in Ligue 1 five times each. Bianchi only won 14 caps for his country, and Onnis (born in Italy and emigrating to Argentina when he was a boy, nicknamed 'El Tano', 'the Italian') never played for Argentina at all.

Onnis remains Ligue 1's highest ever goalscorer with 299 goals for four clubs, ahead of eight Frenchmen, and then Bianchi.

The English goalscorers in Belgium are all before the first World War.

[Sanguine]

In December, Alan Shearer will have been the Premier League'ss all-time leading goalscorer for 31 years. On 18th December 1993, he scored his 16th goal of the 1993-94 season, and his 32nd in the Premier League, a lead in the 'all-time' charts (lol) that he has never relinquished. The only other man to have been the Premier League's leading scorer for any length of time is Teddy Sheringham, who nudged ahead of Shearer in April 1993, and stayed there until December.

Haaland now has 72 goals in 70 Premier League games, his second goal at the weekend taking him past Chris Wood's tally of 71. Haaland already has Cantona, Aubamayang and Suarez behind him.

[From Despair To Where?]

The most incredible thing about that stat is that Chris Wood has scored 71 Premier league goals (for 4 clubs over 9 seasons).

[Silver Fox]

Who was the premier league's all time top scorer before that (maybe start on the first to get to 10 so it's not Brian Deane, then a few minutes later tied with some else etc etc)

[Sanguine]

Who was the premier league's all time top scorer before that (maybe start on the first to get to 10 so it's not Brian Deane, then a few minutes later tied with some else etc etc)

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -knowledge

Surprisingly short list. Mainly because Shearer was there from day one.

Brian Deane
Alan Shearer
Brian Deane
David Hirst
Eric Cantona
David White
Alan Shearer (8 goals)
Teddy Sheringham
Alan Shearer (32 goals)

List is only those who first reached a particular milestone, not ties. Only two top scorers once the total got to eight.
Can't be arsed to work out Sheringham's number, but it was somewhere in the high teens when he overtook Shearer.

[BRO_BOT]

Was surprised to see how many goals Tony Cottee scored. He's right up there for a post-war footballer.

Grieves
Shearer
Rush
Herd
Cottee
Kane
Hurst
Allen
Rooney
Law

[Sanguine]

Was surprised to see how many goals Tony Cottee scored. He's right up there for a post-war footballer.

Grieves
Shearer
Rush
Herd
Cottee
Kane
Hurst
Allen
Rooney
Law

The forwards' Chris Woods or Nigel Martyn. Was always behind someone in the England pecking order, be it Lineker or Beardsley or Sheringham or Shearer. Only won seven caps.

Film career
Cottee made a cameo appearance in the 2018 action film Final Score, in which he was murdered on live television.

Lol.