Stick Yer Stats!

[Chris in London]

So we feed the squad cinnamon pop tarts with goats' cheese and the Cup is ours?

Unless its a sunny day, then we eat more chocolate.

No, FFS.

it's the FA cup we're trying to win, not a Nobel prize.

 

[Anonymous]

So we feed the squad cinnamon pop tarts with goats' cheese and the Cup is ours?

Unless its a sunny day, then we eat more chocolate.

If it's a dreaded sunny day, I'll meet you at the cemetary gates.

 

[fat boy blue]

i can draw only one conclusion

Feed the Goat (cheese, red wine & chocolate) & he will score

 

[Paulski]

The line about 'correlation' and 'causation' being two seperate entities is very true. Just because something shows a correlation does not mean that a direct cause has set the trend and that it will always be that way. It can just as easily be a correlation of coincidence.

However statistics, if analysed properly, are hugely important; especially in sport. Players are sold and bought and titles won and lost on the strength of properly analysed statistics. But analysing staistics properly isn't always, or is rarely, done right. Every single variable or reason and anomaly has to be looked at and analysed too, not just some but all. If you can't get all you can't analyse the statistics fully. Everything has to be taken into consideration.

I read somewhere that just lumping the ball into the final third as often as possible (literally everytime they got the ball they just twatted it forward) got some low league team a few consecutive promotions. Obviously it gets a bit more complicated as you go up the leagues, but just look at Stoke!

-- Fri May 03, 2013 1:29 pm --

Why thank you kind sir.

I should point out that the first person to work out the algorithm for performance will make more money than they can possibly dream of.

Didn't Liverpool's owners do this for baseball?

 

[jauganaut]

This article is just stating the obvious.
I can't imagine a legitimate buisness/sport taking huge risks based on correlation.
This is why the terms "experiment", "variable" and "hypothesis" are in the dictionary.

 

[MC ID]

So do we the fans make the goats cheese? Or feed the goat pop tarts? In any case I've already covered myself in chocolate in order to make sure we get the best out of our players.

 

[Carver]

The outswinger/ inswinger data is irrelevant when you consider that we started to score more goals when the corner taker started getting the ball past the first man on a more regular basis.