Football Stats

[ozzjim]

Does anyone have any decent access to football stats such as pass completion and for me much more interestingly distance run by our players. I have googled and come up blank, but the data is collated somewhere as sites use it in their game previews etc.

I know OPTA collected it, but being a bit geeky I thought a thread where we could identify and get excited by some stats would be great.

[pauliewalnuts]

www.whoscored.com has everything but distance.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Karim El Ahmadi has completed 90% of his passes in the first half, the best accuracy for Villa

[Phil from the upper holte]

Only 2 players (Baines & Morrison) have delivered more accurate crosses than Barry Bannan's 10 in the Premier League this season (5 today)

[garyshawsknee]

Opta on Twitter is pretty pretty good.

[spaf]

Four Four Two has a free app for Apple devices that looks a lot like Guardian's Chalkboards year or two ago. Seems legit.

http://fourfourtwo.com/statszone/

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Too much of this statistics stuff in football, its just not cricket.

[nigel]

An interesting stat I heard before yesterdays game.
After 1 game Brad Guzan is number 1 in Europe (this season) for goalkeeper claiming crosses. I'm assuming that's catching the ball rather than punching.
I loved it yesterday when he came out almost to the edge of the box to claim one ball. The defenders must love that, takes a lot of pressure off them. 

[ktvillan]

I've never understood why distance run by a player is of any interest whatsoever.  It's a ball game not a marathon. Maybe some kind of influence of American sports which seem to revolve more around stats than actual action.   

[ozzjim]

I love a distance run stat. It CAN show how a lazy player in perception is actually covering a lot of ground in a match without looking like they are doing so. See Darren Bent a few times last season. It is not fool proof, but I like stats as indicative measures. But then I enjoys formulas in excel that make different workbooks do different things, so am likely to enjoy a good stat or two.

[PaulWinch again]

Karim El Ahmadi has completed 90% of his passes in the first half, the best accuracy for Villa

That's interesting as I didn't think he was that accurate yesterday, shows how little I know!

[sc00by555]

Follow this account on Twitter, it's very good and you can request particular info from each match: https://twitter.com/AVFC_Stats

[Dante Lavelli]

I love a distance run stat. It CAN show how a lazy player in perception is actually covering a lot of ground in a match without looking like they are doing so. See Darren Bent a few times last season. It is not fool proof, but I like stats as indicative measures. But then I enjoys formulas in excel that make different workbooks do different things, so am likely to enjoy a good stat or two.

Woodward was a bit of a pioneer of this during his early days with England.  The stats showed that Will Greenwood seemed to clock a significant longer distance that the other backs.  As the technology improved and they could see where/when he was doing this running they discovered that he used to run about during the breaks in play as he knew that the stats would be used for something by the Woodward team.

I think it’s essential that the stats for players are used and analysed.  I think having these stats has partially been responsible for the emergence of the 4231 and 433 formations.  It is known that players/athletes/humans cannot perform to their best when they’re at the limits of their fitness - decision making and performance suffers - so more specialised positions have developed.  Players are asked to do their running in more defined areas.

[Yossarian]

Man City released shed loads of stats for free. Having a play with all of the stats and seeing what I could discover is something I would like to do if I didn't have lots of other things to do; if I was a student again or in jail or a man of independent means for example.

[Shrek]

I love a distance run stat. It CAN show how a lazy player in perception is actually covering a lot of ground in a match without looking like they are doing so. See Darren Bent a few times last season. It is not fool proof, but I like stats as indicative measures. But then I enjoys formulas in excel that make different workbooks do different things, so am likely to enjoy a good stat or two.

It proves nothing for me, For example Bannan covered more ground than Holman yesterday, but it's the intensity of Holmans runs that are so beneficial for the team.