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Dunban posted:So who's Chewbacca? Chewbacca (Sotirios Kyrgiakos) left on a free
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Eh? Hodgson's has consistently proved goals have nothing to do with selection. He adores Welbeck, and Welbeck will be a long term international in the currently trendy 'defensive winger' role he plays for England. Same with Cleverley who can't get a game at Utd yet is the first name on the England teamsheet.
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May 6, 2014 22:37
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a Wilson or a Ronaldo
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May 6, 2014 22:55
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quote:No way he'll be a Macheda, the paranoid lot have come out it seems. He seems to have more about him and looks like someone to be a star for the future. If Hernandez were to leave, I would not be worried. He can just slot right in! quote:I wonder what odds you could get on him becoming United's all time top goalscorer in the future :keano: quote:The only question is whether he can develop enough with cameos as a backup or does he need a loan. The best part is that now he got 2 on his debut all but about 4 premier league clubs would love to take him on that loan. So he'd have a good selection to choose the right one for himself
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May 7, 2014 09:17
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lmao A Zanuzaj or a Wilson or a Ronaldo indeed.
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they're going to loan him to a team that is better than theirs to protect his development edit: no fuckin way quote:
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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-scoring-goals-doesnt-guarantee-a-championship-in-european-soccer/quote:Soccer presents a Pythagorean challenge because about a quarter of its matches end in draws, worth one point each in the league tables. Because wins are worth three points, the most accurate Pythagorean analyses overestimate most teams’ points totals, as soccer analyst Howard Hamilton has found. I got the same result when seeking the best exponent for the last 21 complete seasons of the big four European professional leagues, using data compiled by Opta, the soccer-stats providers and analysts. The best fit,2 an exponent of 1.19, overestimated the average team’s final standing by 4.6 points.
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 jyrka posted:http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-scoring-goals-doesnt-guarantee-a-championship-in-european-soccer/ The thing that kills me about these posts & make them the worst ones, is that they're always trying to fit their bullshit model to things that have happened in the past. They feed the data in from 20 seasons, and then keep adding functions until they get something kind of like the correct league table for those years but not really. Do any of them try and predict the league for the next season based on all this bullshit to actually test their model? Or is it just constant unending wanking about their pet equations that Alan Hansen's dogshit intuition can probably beat. Olewithmilk fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 8, 2014 |
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Olewithmilk posted:The thing that kills me about these posts & make them the worst ones, is that they're always trying to fit their bullshit model to things that have happened in the past. They feed the data in from 20 seasons, and then keep adding functions until they get something kind of like the correct league table for those years but not really. That's not really what the formula does. I had a thing typed out here but if anyone actually cares there's an explanation here. Basically, it's useful for taking a team's midseason goals/runs allowed and scored and determining what their wins and losses will be at the end of the season within a pretty reasonable margin (around 3 games in a 162 game season). It's a more accurate method, as it turns out, than using the team's current wins and losses. The point he makes in the article is that because a football match has three possible outcomes instead of two, the model's margin of error is much larger and it's not any more accurate than judging by current position.
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And nothing to do with a 20 team league's season being 38 matches instead of 162 at all. Or the fact that football isn't baseball.
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Tsaedje posted:And nothing to do with a 20 team league's season being 38 matches instead of 162 at all. Or the fact that football isn't baseball. Well no, of course they're different. But the basic idea has been applied to basketball, NFL football, and ice hockey with varying degrees of success, and they're not anything alike. The NFL only plays a 16 game schedule. The fundamental problem is that you get a win percentage, when win percentage doesn't actually mean anything in football. Don't get me wrong, I think baseball-style analysis has been wonderful for baseball but totally inapplicable to sports which aren't made up of discrete plays (ie pretty much any other one). This on the other hand is more about long-term trends and I think the mathematics is pretty sound. ....aaaanyway.
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Teams that score more goals are more likely to win, as are teams that concede fewer goals A lot of 538's post-election output is a heady mixture of misuse of data or misrepresenting data.
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Uh, I think you'll find that 538 accurately predicted that Cool President Obama would defeat the Most Beige Man In The World, Mittington Romney the Third, the GOP's seventh choice and their only candidate whose past controversies made him only semi-unelectable. Thus statistics will always be right.
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I want to get a job in statistics so that I can self-select data that supports my perspective for a living
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Lamont Cranston posted:Well no, of course they're different. But the basic idea has been applied to basketball, NFL football, and ice hockey with varying degrees of success, and they're not anything alike. The NFL only plays a 16 game schedule. The fundamental problem is that you get a win percentage, when win percentage doesn't actually mean anything in football. lol right thread
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mynameisjohn posted:I want to get a job in statistics so that I can self-select data that supports my perspective for a living Congratulations, you have qualified to become Jozy Altidores new publicist!
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Reddit posted:Okay so here goes. All this season I've been telling my friends who don't follow football closely about how insane it would be if Liverpool managed to win the title (explaining the significance of it having not won the league for 24 years, the role of Gerrard, the strength of other opponents). which one of you posted this
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lmao right thread, how do you even find something like this?
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vyelkin posted:lmao right thread, how do you even find something like this? 
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Roman would be trying to sell him off to league one right now
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Give them the Falklands back and it's a deal, imo. I'm sure FIFA would be okay with it if you gave Sepp another one of your useless islands.
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I would imagine the people who actually create the poo poo that goes in this thread had a field day with this one
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The Brendhemian Rhapsody Was this the real race? Was this just fantasy? Won in a landslide No need for escape from reality, Open your eyes Look up all the ties, and See! We’re just a poor team, We need no sympathy Cause its easy won, City blows We are high, they are low Anyway, Maureen-Yo doesn’t really matter (To me) Too Meeee… Sterling…, Just killed the Man’s Put the eyes on, tilts his head Pulls the trigger, left for dead Sterling The race had just begun But then he went and blew them all away Sterling, ooo-oo Didn’t mean to make them cry But they couldn’t keep up if they ran until tomorrow Tracking back, kicking out, didn’t really matter…. Just great, our time has come! Sends shivers down my spine It’s a season for all time! Goodbye, Moysie Mancster, you’ve got to go Gotta leave your thing destroyed and face the truth Suarez, oo-oo-o (easy won city blows) Always made them cry. The other teams knew he couldn’t be stopped at all… I see a little Silouhetto of a man AVTim AVTim can you do the FanTango? Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening Pelligrino Pellegrino Pellegrino Pellegrino Pellegrino paid Eur-os (Magnifico-oo-o) But we’re just a poor team everybody loves we (We’re just a poor team with a rich history!) Sparing the League from these Monstrosity’s Easy won, City blows-will you tell Maureen? John Henry! Yes! We will tell Maureen. (Wenger knows) John Henry! We will tell Maureen. (Wenger knows) John Henry! We will tell Maureen. (Wenger knows) We did not let it go (didnt let it go) Never Never let it go Never Let it go-ooh, Go-Go-Go-Go-Go-GO Oh Mama Mia Mama Mia We just never let it go Couhtin-io had a through ball quite divine, and Steve, And Steve, and Steeeve….. Did you see Sturridge just school you, that blur in your eye? Did you see as he scored and your brain was just fri-i-ed? Ooh, Jose, Such fun to do this to you Jose We finish first, We finished first in the League…. …oooh yeah, …oooh yeah The title really mattered, Anyone could see. The title really mattered The title really mattered, To Steeeve. (Cause its easy won, City blows, we are high they are low, anyway Maureen-Yo, doesn’t really matter, to Me…..)
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The only good this about this footage is the chick,well tasty. I thought black guys are meant to have rhythm, Sturridge attempt at the wave is embarrassing,and yet he still does it whenever he scores. You'd think Rodgers would have pulled him aside and told him he looks a right oval office,saying that, Rodgers looks a bigger oval office with them false teeth.
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"Plus, you get to cheer for Yaya Toure. He's black."
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No idea if they're being sarcastic or they're serious or they're pretending to be serious to keep their American jobs?!
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They're Americans so they can't be sarcastic. Not until they invent and then perfect sarcasm in 2045.
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Azerban posted:
"Jozy has kept his powder dry for America for the World Cup."
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jyrka posted:No idea if they're being sarcastic or they're serious or they're pretending to be serious to keep their American jobs?!
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mynameisjohn posted:Over-hyping the US team is like their entire schtick. It's a joke.
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Chris de Sperg posted:Jokes are supposed to be funny.
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America could win the World Cup just like any team could win the World Cup, that is if every player on the opposing team were to get miraculously struck by lightning and killed and therefore they won the match by default, seven times in a row.
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