New Everton Manager

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

We hate it because it's completely pointless. We don't need a stat inventing to tell us the bold.

I’d imagine it’s somewhat useful to the backroom staff and the people who have to analyse performance?

 

[Nymzee]

Honestly if Nuno gets it... like Wolves cast-off Nuno, c'mon Marcel.

 

[Nymzee]

I’d imagine it’s somewhat useful to the backroom staff and the people who have to analyse performance?

It's a very new stat for a very old game. It's almost like people couldn't perform and win things without it.

 

[TheBigIguana]

You know me, I love my stats, can't stand xG though. People that love it seem to forget football was successful long before it was ever a thing. Far too many stats tracked these days.

There are so many ingrained biases in football that it really is nice to be able to sort through that to an extent with numbers at least to me. It's why with someone like Doucoure I'm just not into it because the things people like to say he does the stats don't show him doing. And I think that's just because they see what they think he should be based on some of his attributes. So yeah I'm very pro-stat as you know. xG is just one and it does have limits.

 

[Pab Laa]

It’s grim like, the Prem roll call looks as follows

93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 01, 03, 07, 08, 09, 11, 13 - Scottish (Ferguson and Dalglish)

98, 02, 04 - French (Wenger)

05, 06, 15 - Portuguese (Mourinho)

10, 12, 16, 17 - Italian (Ancelotti, Mancini, Ranieri and Conte)

14 - Chilean (Pellegrini)

19 - German (Klopp)

18, 19, 21 - Spaniard (Guardiola)

The last time there was a dominance of title winning managers being English was between 1976 and 1987 when Howard (twice), Bob Paisley (6), Ron Saunders, Brian Clough and Joe Fagan all won it with only Dalglish breaking the monopoly in 1986

The previous time before that was during the period pre and post Second World War when Sir Matt Busby was the only ‘foreign’ manager to claim the English title , in 1952, since Johnny Cochrane did it with Sunderland in 1936. Busby would snap a run of ‘home’ winners twice more, going back to back in 56 and 57 then again, along with Shankly between 1964 and 1967

What's Ranieri doing these days?

 

[TheBigIguana]

It's a very new stat for a very old game. It's almost like people couldn't perform and win things without it.

Sports change.

 

[Nymzee]

There are so many ingrained biases in football that it really is nice to be able to sort through that to an extent with numbers at least to me. It's why with someone like Doucoure I'm just not into it because the things people like to say he does the stats don't show him doing. And I think that's just because they see what they think he should be based on some of his attributes. So yeah I'm very pro-stat as you know. xG is just one and it does have limits.

But at the same time football is the eye test as well. Doucoure could have a great game to the fans but with average stats that don't really matter to us at the end of the day. All players will fail on certain stats each game.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I’d imagine it’s somewhat useful to the backroom staff and the people who have to analyse performance?

It definitely is. And teams are using it. Brentford are in the PL because of a willingness to embrace newer stats.

 

[Nymzee]

Sports change.

The aim of football doesn't. Incredibly simple sport.

 

[TheBigIguana]

But at the same time football is the eye test as well. Doucoure could have a great game to the fans but with average stats that don't really matter to us at the end of the day. All players will fail on certain stats each game.

Again though, long term they are telling and that's what I mean there.

 

[ForeverEverton]

Day 5 without a manager...... still no clues to who has been contacted, if anyone.

 

[MikeH72]

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Here you go buddy I am here to help with our xB which is very good if we appoint Conte

Mmmmmm lovely salmon

 

[orly]

Mmmmmm lovely salmon

As you can see under Conte we would score 2.6 xB per match which is probably enough for 4th

 

[TheBigIguana]

The aim of football doesn't. Incredibly simple sport.

The concept is. In practice, no.

 

[Nymzee]

The concept is. In practice, no.

You put the ball in the opponents net more than they do in yours. Don't need xG to help with that. If you don't score someone explaining how we actually should have had 2.8 goals really is irrelevant.