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2024/25 Sean Dyche

Blue peter said:
Fair point and well articulated. If the aim of the game in the eyes of Joe Public or the media is that this is another season where success for us is safety, then I don’t think he has the toughest job at all.

Despite that ongoing background shenanigans I am sure other smaller clubs would like to be competing with our squad.

If we look at at through the prism of Everton fans rightly demanding more (than what we are currently getting), then yes I would see it that way, but I think the majority of us only expected at least a similar season with hopefully a modest improvement points and places wise. All this talk of we expected Europe (and to be fair I didn’t hear it direct so not sure where it came from) was well wide of the mark.
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thanks for the response .

I agree on the Europe talk I think it was at most mentioned by the odd blue a few pints in or with a wistful look in their eyes dreaming of a better tomorrow . I don’t think anybody realistically expected anything like a European challenge .

In pure footballing terms I think our squad is compatible if not better than a few of the sides we’re competing around . However as I hope I put across in terms of a tough job I think if not before that Everton from about 21/22 fits the bill .

Let’s hope that changes with competent owners at the helm , I’m not convinced dyche will be here to see it mind .
 
DualityNSNO said:
Expected Goals Conceded.

If you look at it as a singular statline it looks pretty good that we're doing okay in it. However, any normal actual analysis is done on the combination of all of the expected and actual statistics, as in this vacuum they make no sense. It's like being happy your car gets ridiculously great mileage, but ignoring it's just idling in place all day as it has no wheels.
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How can it get great mileage if it's just stuck in place? "Mile"age

Just curious.

Also, yes about the stats.
 
pfim said:
How can it get great mileage if it's just stuck in place? "Mile"age

Just curious.

Also, yes about the stats.
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Because internal combustion engines still consume petrol/diesel/fuel when idling, and most (now older I guess, as more modern cars detect it) ECU's still put it towards your mileage, even though it's close to nothing (for petrol car engines of medium size i.e. a 4 cylinder 2L engine it's a quarter galon per hour or something), so it will likely show up as 0.1 or 0.0 on a modern car, thus giving you hilarious mileage if you calculate it like that. I had a diesel Jeep that added it to the "per 100" consumption to reach hilarious lows if sat idling, but instant consumption showed as 0.1L, as a personal anecdote.

As pointless as looking a 1 stat and ignoring the bigger picture basically.

'Fun' fact by the way, idling in traffic costs the population something like 20 billion dollars a year or something daft like that, due to the wastage from it. Start/Stop systems have lowered this a bit but they are also not a good solution for a lot of factors. Diesels are bigger culprits for this wastage, but so are most work trucks with the massive diesel engines, which people keep running all day during the winter, to warm themselves and the engine, and then still do it over the summer to... warm the planet, I guess.
 
DualityNSNO said:
Because internal combustion engines still consume petrol/diesel/fuel when idling, and most (now older I guess, as more modern cars detect it) ECU's still put it towards your mileage, even though it's close to nothing (for petrol car engines of medium size i.e. a 4 cylinder 2L engine it's a quarter galon per hour or something), so it will likely show up as 0.1 or 0.0 on a modern car, thus giving you hilarious mileage if you calculate it like that. I had a diesel Jeep that added it to the "per 100" consumption to reach hilarious lows if sat idling, but instant consumption showed as 0.1L, as a personal anecdote.

As pointless as looking a 1 stat and ignoring the bigger picture basically.

'Fun' fact by the way, idling in traffic costs the population something like 20 billion dollars a year or something daft like that, due to the wastage from it. Start/Stop systems have lowered this a bit but they are also not a good solution for a lot of factors. Diesels are bigger culprits for this wastage, but so are most work trucks with the massive diesel engines, which people keep running all day during the winter, to warm themselves and the engine, and then still do it over the summer to... warm the planet, I guess.
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I'm just going by the math, if my numerator is zero (miles/gallon), my mileage will be zero.

Yes, it's why hybrids typically get better city mileage ratings than highway, they rely more on the battery for the stop start stuff and gas on the highway.

I find the xG stats interesting, but I feel you get get the same sort of answers if you just count the good chances in a match. They attempt to provide objectivity to something that is generally viewed as subjective, which I appreciate, but it is just a number and is limited by the variables entered.
 

Goat said:
We won our last game, so I hate him less currently.

Hes an awful manager, but the players are very much still putting in the work, we just need to hope he reads a tactics book or something.
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Are the players putting in the work, because it's their job, and professional pride and all that, or because Dyche is rallying them and they're all working for Dyche? 🤔
 

Well who expected this kind of response to a comment on a stat that the team you support, defence has shown signs of improving.

To funny, revilingly the manager wasn’t even mentioned.

I’d be very critical of the type of goals we conceded vs Leicester and Palace myself, some of the chances as well.
 
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pfim said:
I'm just going by the math, if my numerator is zero (miles/gallon), my mileage will be zero.

Yes, it's why hybrids typically get better city mileage ratings than highway, they rely more on the battery for the stop start stuff and gas on the highway.

I find the xG stats interesting, but I feel you get get the same sort of answers if you just count the good chances in a match. They attempt to provide objectivity to something that is generally viewed as subjective, which I appreciate, but it is just a number and is limited by the variables entered.
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Hence me saying "older cars" and "older ECUs" and giving you a literal example, as 0.1 on the numerator is not 0, it's close enough to 0 that the numerator regards it as 0 as with idle you don't calculate MPG (or L/100km), but GPH/LPH (gallons or litres per hour). Still, older cars, old ecus.

Start/stop isn't only on hybrids but the reason it's not good for long traffic jams is exactly the battery drain when the engine is off. Hybrids have it slightly better but it's still not optimal as it needs to move regardless.

Sean Dyche is a slug.
 
Neiler said:
In the last two fixtures we had the best XGC in the league that hints to a big defensive improvement. XGC is lowest expected goals conceded (xGC), as opposed to XG - expected goals.

Get an Everton defender in to your FPL squads.
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Two fixtures isn’t a meaningful statistical sample.

Unless it’s the first two fixtures of this season which predict the rest of time.
 

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