owlinexile Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, jonesy87shef said: I’m confused. There’s a heck of a lot of small clubs in there that have overachieved. Only underachievers in that list are us. Lots of relegation and bottom half candidates don’t go down and finish top half and European places. Keeps top sides at the top and average/crap sides do much better than expected. Seriously? A side relegated from the Championship, a side that would have been relagated from the Championship if not for the other sides points deduction, two mid-table championship sides, one with just about the worst form imaginable, Leeds, and a bunch of European giants? It seems like 'pressing' has very little impact on league position from that sample. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owlinexile Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, @owlstalk said: Can I also point out that this stat is NOT the 15th best team in the Championship Nor is it the 15th best in the COUNTRY It's the FIFTEENTH BEST IN EUROPE Read that again... EUROPE Fifteenth 'best' in Europe at a completely meaningless stat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxonOwl Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 How do we know it's not made up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCOWl Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 2 hours ago, Blue and white said: You don't win the league at Christmas, look at the league at the end of the season, it was shambolic and there is no defence to keep him other than we are a complete joke of a club. He wasn't even the 1st choice, if you look at the press conference when he was appointed, DC couldn't look less interested if he wanted to. Spot on. Let's look at graphs at Christmas as they looked good. The important one is the most recent form table and the end of season league position. We can all pick a point in a season where we were quite good (generally) but as the saying goes it's a marathon not a sprint. If the pressing stat is that accurate and reflective why did our results deteriorate so rapidly in the second half of the season on the back of this?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 11 minutes ago, owlinexile said: Fifteenth 'best' in Europe at a completely meaningless stat. Well I don't quite know how to answer this one It's stopped me in my tracks It really has Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N0rtherner Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 They had to make up some obscure statistic just so that Leeds could come out top of the table. Judging from the pic in OT, looks like something posted by L**ds official twitter account... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just now, N0rtherner said: They had to make up some obscure statistic just so that Leeds could come out top of the table. Judging from the pic in OT, looks like something posted by L**ds official twitter account... What difference does it make who posts a factual statistic? A fact is a fact Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 The reason there's a weird mix of teams is that the stat is completely useless, I like football stats but taken by itself this is possibly one of the least useful I've seen, it doesn't correlate strongly with how good a team is at pressing at all, it simply means we allow however many passes per defensive action. No indication of pressing at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 6 minutes ago, fingyfop said: The reason there's a weird mix of teams is that the stat is completely useless, I like football stats but taken by itself this is possibly one of the least useful I've seen, it doesn't correlate strongly with how good a team is at pressing at all, it simply means we allow however many passes per defensive action. No indication of pressing at all. Shush, Neil is enjoying his hero Monk making us into the 15th best pressing team in Europe. Even though nobody even knows what it means. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 14 minutes ago, alanharper said: Shush, Neil is enjoying his hero Monk making us into the 15th best pressing team in Europe. Even though nobody even knows what it means. Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 If it were De-pressing then I might understand the ranking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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