Average age of our current team/squad.

Permission to make a totally anal post?

When people say "average", they are usually referring implicitly to the arithmetic mean. However, the median is a more meaningful statistic in many situations, including this one.

Regrettably, this observation will be lost on most commentators.
I'm going to risk your wrath here and go out on a limb and say that both the mean and median are perfectly valid ways of measuring the averages here.
 
Don't anyone mention there is a third way..."the mode" rarely used as not much use most of the time.
 
Mode is the most commonly occurring value. Median is mid-range. Mean is the sum total divided by the number of cases.

Mean and median are both valid measures in this context. As shown above, are very similar in City's case. What the median does is reduce the effect of rogue outlying values. If City had a centenarian, for example, the mean average would rocket, whereas the median wouldn't be affected.

Fortunately we've moved our geriatrics on, so this is a hypothetical example.
 
Mode is the most commonly occurring value. Median is mid-range. Mean is the sum total divided by the number of cases.

Mean and median are both valid measures in this context. As shown above, are very similar in City's case. What the median does is reduce the effect of rogue outlying values. If City had a centenarian, for example, the mean average would rocket, whereas the median wouldn't be affected.

Fortunately we've moved our geriatrics on, so this is a hypothetical example.

Skewness would indicate the asymmetry of our lads population, and it would be leaned to the left, methinks.
 
We have a very young team at the moment but it never seems to get mentioned even though we are playing amazing football. Usually your goalie increases the average age but not with Ederson in the team.

Imagine if 'josie's babes' were playing this way, you would never hear the end of it.

Anyway does anyone know where we stand in the premier league standings regarding average age?
It shouldn’t really get mentioned as there are eight other teams (so that’s pretty much half of the league) with an almost identical average age to ours.
 
The mean is determined by adding up all the ages and dividing by the total number of players.

The median is determined by lining the players up in age order and picking the age of the middle player.

City have a mean of 26.9 and a median of 26.7
The mode is where its at :)
 

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