Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: David_Nab on May 09, 2012, 04:47:24 PM
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Saw this and found it intresting a league table based on points for each player injured and how long for.Very suprised we were not closer the top
http://injuryleague.com/?p=39 (http://injuryleague.com/?p=39)
Here is the final table
(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/t/3ipja.jpg) (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/3ipja)
Shows that the injuries weren't that bad overall for the season.Though we have a small squad to start with so that perhaps balances it out a little.
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Mid-table - there's something to aspire to!
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So this season was actually worse than last injury wise.
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one player out for one week equals one injury point
I hardly see how that's a fair measure for a number of reasons:-
1. Quality of the player who is injured. Losing Bent for a month would score 4, but losing Bannan for the same time scores 4 aswell.
2. Better squads can absorb injuries to little detriment of results, so Swansea losing their first choice CB would hurt more than Chelsea doing so.
3. It doesn't account for position, such as our midfield crisis last season. So four players in one position scores the same as 4 in four different positions?
Pretty meaningless table, in all honesty.
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one player out for one week equals one injury point
I hardly see how that's a fair measure for a number of reasons:-
1. Quality of the player who is injured. Losing Bent for a month would score 4, but losing Bannan for the same time scores 4 aswell.
2. Better squads can absorb injuries to little detriment of results, so Swansea losing their first choice CB would hurt more than Chelsea doing so.
3. It doesn't account for position, such as our midfield crisis last season. So four players in one position scores the same as 4 in four different positions?
Pretty meaningless table, in all honesty.
Exactly. Last season was a much worse injury crisis than this season because, at one point in November, we had 17 players out, 7 being midfielders and 3 central defenders.
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I like obscure statistical shit because you can interpret things to suit your own agenda.
Conclusion ? These FACTS provide irrefutable PROOF that the McGingTwatBastard is even worse than any of us first suspected or subsequent events proved.
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Which boring bastard thought up that table?
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Our problem wasn't so much not taking point when we had injuries, it was that when we had a decent run of "easy" fixtures and no injuries at the start of the season, we were still poking around playing for a point, like a more expensive version of Blues.