It's a numbers game

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
sportsrated said:
Stats are undoubtedly a crucial consideration when contemplating a signing. They are also a strong guide to a player's impact in the game.

My only real issue with them is how they are portrayed in/twisted by the media. There are stats regularly wheeled out to 'prove' a point, that are little more than coincidence or, at best, correlation (rather than causation).

Most stats are useless in a vacuum. They need complementary stats/context to be able to infer any kind of meaning from them.
Click to expand...

Welcome to our board, and to The Numbers Game thread. Stats get a bad press! :grin: <ok>
 
JKCanary said:
I'd probably say that compared to historical opinion of them, their popularity is at an all-time high!
Click to expand...

If you listened to the "Round the Grounds" programme on R5L last night, you would have heard a classic case of people who should know better ridiculing "football statistics" rather than the misuse of them.

I take your point that the popularity of stats is at an all time high, in the sense that it is virtually impossible to read anything football related nowadays without some stat or other being regurgitated. But, as sportsrated says, most of it is frivolous. <ok>
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back