Just been looking at the stats for the gunners game, and was looking at the discrepancy between between two different sources for the same game, how can there be so much difference between the two? Anyone knows who actually provides the information to the various media companies, obviously they don't go to the games, so there must be agencies who do this BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14772989.stm ESPN / Soccernet http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=318297&league=ENG.1&cc=5739
I did some research on licensing data feeds for football data a year ago and I think that there is one source and all media outlets license and receive the one feed. Perhaps there are some outlets, like BBC, that have reporters etc at specific games that may be collecting their own data and compiling their own metrics. Perhaps the differences that you are seeing are game averages versus last block (say 10) of minutes over which the data is sampled, compiled and averaged.
There are lies, damn lies and statistics...............you lot lost to a freak goal yesterday, and were unlucky not to score but you lost.................the only stat that counts is the final score, or we would have beaten Pompey in the cup final.........it doesn't really matter who compiles this stuff, the Swans were worth at least a draw yesterday, they didn't get it. Look at our game at West Ham..........look at the stats, and you'd think we'd lost 3 or 4 nil...................stats became popular in an attempt to market "Sawcer" in the US where "sports fans" live and breathe them, as football fans we know that they mean nothing really...........apart from the final score
Have you the stats for the man utd v Bolton game? If you didn't know the score and looked at the stats only you would be convinced that Bolton would have won the game, I know stats can be made to tell anything, but surely they should tally ?
Looks like stats from different sources. They are pretty close and there are bound to be differences if there is a different source. In your example, yellow cards and corners match, as everyone knows if there is a corner taken or red card given. But shots at goal aren't always obvious. Was it a pass or a shot at goal? Maybe 95% of the time you can tell, but sometimes you can't. Not sure why you are so worried whether 20 shots or 22. Make no difference.
who said I was worried? its just the differences between shots on goal and not between them, they are all watching the same game so was wondering
Yes Billy Liar , and the other stat is we're in the Premiership and you're not , (and for someone pretending to go to uni) your spelling is very poor .
Even within the organisation they vary (bbc)!! On-line Arsenal/Swans possession: 59%/41%. MOTD saturday night: 54%/46%!! Work that one out....
Haha! There were games I've seen/listened to in the Championship where we had about 60% of the ball, but BBC made it to be 50/50. Bit lazy, if you ask me!
