Looks like Spurs have a relatively easy run in, while United and Arsenal’s are a touch harder.
We’re coming to the business end of the season when the important matters of promotion, relegation and European qualification get decided. With only eight games left (or nine if you’re Chelsea or Leicester) the quality of the teams you still have left to face can play an important part in your chances of success.
But how do you compare schedules?
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Today marks the start of four days that will define Spurs’ season and Mauricio Pochettino’s first year in charge. With a finely balanced Europa league tie tonight and the League Cup final just days later, picking the team is not going to be an easy task.
If Pochettino selects Continue reading
Yesterday, I investigated Premier League shot ratios to get an idea of how each side has performed so far this season.
Next, I want to take a closer look at differences between styles of play. Below I have plotted a graph of Continue reading
It’s FA Cup week and there’s no Premier League, so I thought I’d take a statistical look at how the season’s taking shape. This is the first of two articles, in the second I will be trying to categorise teams’ style of play based on some basic metrics.
Let’s see how the statistics suggest each of the 20 teams is performing and how Continue reading
The winter transfer window closed this week with a whimper. Not much happened at Spurs but then not much happened full stop – pity the poor Sky Sports News’ presenters.
Predictably the two biggest signings were Continue reading
Firstly, to those who say “it’s good we went out” – “we can’t fight on all fronts”?
Utter nonsense. The FA Cup has played a very important part in Spurs’ history and Continue reading
Anything But Penalties 