FOOTBALL - The Premier League this season has already developed into a two horse race for the title between the two Manchester clubs. Judging from the clubs’ current ISG coefficients which compare their performance this season with last, this weekend’s Manchester derby could make a big difference to the current race but not in the way suggested by the league table.
FOOTBALL - West Bromwich Albion lost 3-1 at Swansea City on Wednesday night, a result which has led to much speculation about why the performance level of the Baggies suddenly declined against an opponent they supposedly should have competed better against. Mark Lawrenson, for example, remarked that West Brom’s players were “believing their own publicity a bit”. Simon Gleave took a look at the ISG coefficients which compare a team’s results this season with those in the same matches last season, and found little difference between Swansea City and West Bromwich Albion.
FOOTBALL - Feyenoord’s second place in last season’s Eredivisie was their best league performance for 11 years whilst the six point deficit between them and champions Ajax was the closest that the Rotterdammers had come to winning the title since 2002/2003 when they finished third, four points behind champions PSV. Their fifth place in the current league table might therefore be seen as a disappointment but the league table is not telling the whole story.
FOOTBALL - The last few days have seen both Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers sack their managers in an attempt to turn their seasons around. Making the assumption that Chelsea’s goal is to win the Premier League title this season and QPR’s is to avoid relegation, Head of Analysis Simon Gleave took a look at which of the new managers is more likely to achieve his objective.
FOOTBALL - In November 2011, the then coach of FC Twente Co Adriaanse coined the term rangjournalistiek (best translated as rank journalism) referring to his opinion that the league table during the season doesn’t reflect how good or bad the competing teams are. At the beginning of this season, Infostrada’s Head of Analysis Simon Gleave went in search of different methods to try and quantify this.
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