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Player Valuation: £40m
He's just being brought in to manage the sea of kopite tears flooding the place.Moses?
Jesus couldn't improve these lot never mind a zoo keeper.
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He's just being brought in to manage the sea of kopite tears flooding the place.Moses?
Jesus couldn't improve these lot never mind a zoo keeper.
It's much more than that. Statistically, if you dominate the ball against the opposing team you will win the game 79% of the time. This is much, much higher than 60%. Breaking away from the model, if you're only expected to win 60% of the time, in favour of a shorter-term model, is excusable, though ultimately ill advised. Breaking away from a model which historically and statistically gives you a 79% chance to win games is less so and less justifiable.
Your point about the last few games - I believe they are outliers to be honest. This doesn't show how "useless" mere possession is, because if we have a higher possession percentage than the opposing team every league game for 10 years running (380 games) playing the same way, the result will be that we win 79% of them or close to thereabouts. The same logic applies as in, for example, poker variance, where if you make the correct mathematical decisions 100% of the time over 8 online tables for 3 months, for example, you'll end up winning even though short term you may lose some hands that you would have won if you had played based on "gut" feel.
I accept that it's different as football has so many more variables (injuries, morale, loss of form, players needing to be coached, players being asked to play a different way than earlier in the season) than poker, but Brendan's statistical approach to the possession game is imo indeed sound. And if he wants to go back to a formation and an ideal that he believes in then all power to him - I just hope that he doesn't rip it up mid season because of "pressure to get results" and sticks with his preferred style of play throughout next season (38 games is a small sample size but hey we can't ask for the world) and take it from there.
Per aspera ad astra.
The same logic applies as in, for example, poker variance, where if you make the correct mathematical decisions 100% of the time over 8 online tables for 3 months, for example, you'll end up winning even though short term you may lose some hands that you would have won if you had played based on "gut" feel.
Don't kid yourself, he colud have easily been here for another season. His price would have only gone up.
i'm afraid that last season "success" came too early for Rodgers, obviously he wasn't ready for that
Why do we go through these runs? Rafael's final season, Kenny's final season, now this season.
Doesn't make any sense to me![]()
It's almost like everyone involved is complicit in it
Quite a few in the lress are beginning to talk about him mismanaging players
@danielstorey85: Poor Lazar Markovic wouldn't be blamed for handing in a transfer request next month. A young £20m prospect completely mismanaged. Negligent.
@RorySmithTimes: @johncrossmirror I think to an extent the recruitment is a red herring. Some of the management of the recruits has been astonishing.
@JacobSteinberg: @RorySmithTimes @johncrossmirror particularly Lambert.
@RorySmithTimes: @JacobSteinberg @johncrossmirror Markovic is the one that gets me. Totally inexplicable.
@johncrossmirror: @RorySmithTimes @JacobSteinberg I'll raise you Lovren. And the handling of contracts... Yes, you're being fair with a year...
Just a quick RAWK roundup:
We have one of RAWK's amateur statisticians here, banging the 79% drum. I hope FSG take this view on board when it comes to their decision on Rodgers:
TL;DR?
Yeah, because it's the same thing, like.
Next, this lad still thinks Liverpool could have held on to Suarez:
And the lad who thinks that Rodgers just did too well.
And this chap, who has apparently never watched football but knows that everyone else is to blame. Who is everyone? Not exactly sure, but no doubt Chelsea, the refs and the FA are at the head of it:
Do you think Rodgers knows the difference between a 50% decrease and a 100% decrease mate?
Is it 79%.........
Someone seen him leaving radio city,looked like foam around his mouth, doesn't look good,by all accounts.what's the latest update on Aldo?
what's the latest update on Aldo?