Huge review: Tottenham 2013/14: Stats, disharmony & general craziness

[Gedson100]

Hey.

I've done a massive stat review of our season if anyone's interested.
Took ages so would be nice if someone read it

http://thebigripple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tottenham-201314-stats-disharmony.html

Here's a sample to whet the whistle:

'Well, Saint, it's a game of two halves.'
So said erstwhile Tottenham legend Jimmy Greaves to his TV partner Ian St John way back when. And for Tottenham, the season 2013/14 was a season of two halves; a season of Villas Boas and Sherwood, a season of selling Elvis and buying the Beatles only for them to disband & start staging naked love-ins, a season of transition & settling in & of disagreements & disharmony right the way through to the bitterly disjointed end.
On paper the successes, or lack of them, weren't too dissimilar to seasons prior. Nearly but not quite, although the nearly became 'nowhere nearly' and the not quite became 'not at all.' A surfeit of organisation countered by a void of goals characterised the early months until the plan went more than awry at the Etihad. Limping on until a dismantling by an ascendant Liverpool, the departure of Villas-Boas mid way through was nonetheless unexpected & i've maintained since that he was less pushed and more agreeably escorted from his office. Never before have I sensed a man's fate be so clearly apparent as was his during that game & particularly in the subsequent interview. Wearing the redundant air of a man choosing to quit before he was fired, I suspect the final meeting was quick & painless, along the lines of 'I'm going' & 'Yes, you are.'
Left with an unforeseen vacancy, Chief Dan Levy cast his net far & wide & found a barren ocean of managerial fish so thawed out a fish finger from the freezer in Tim Sherwood and let things be. Also thawed out was Adebayor, the mercurial striker arriving with vigour & panache whilst as time went on others were cast back to the sea. The existence of the elusive 'Lamela Mermaid' remains, to this day, unproven.

 

[Shadydan]

I'm gonna read this later tonight, looks good

 

[mark87]

Looks shit...

 

[mark87]

Im joking btw

 

[Montasura]

Just skimmed and will read in more detail later.

But what I picked up from my skim was that AVB was better than Tim, Bale was good, our new players were bought on promise, and that you have a good satellite pic at the top of some mountains (Himalayas??)

 

[Gedson100]

Just skimmed and will read in more detail later.

But what I picked up from my skim was that AVB was better than Tim, Bale was good, our new players were bought on promise, and that you have a good satellite pic at the top of some mountains (Himalayas??)

TL, DR:

• Andre was better than Tim; it just came apart at the seams. Sherwood didn't bother stitching it back up.

• Bale was and is brilliant
• Eriksen is awesome
• The picture is the Cantabrian Mountains from a plane

 

[Flashspur]

nice

 

[Grey Fox]

Interesting read, but you still haven't told me if we score more goals in the Paxton End

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Sorry to be dumb. What are OP & DP?

 

[idontgetit]

Hey.

I've done a massive stat review of our season if anyone's interested.
Took ages so would be nice if someone read it

http://thebigripple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tottenham-201314-stats-disharmony.html

Here's a sample to whet the whistle:

'Well, Saint, it's a game of two halves.'
So said erstwhile Tottenham legend Jimmy Greaves to his TV partner Ian St John way back when. And for Tottenham, the season 2013/14 was a season of two halves; a season of Villas Boas and Sherwood, a season of selling Elvis and buying the Beatles only for them to disband & start staging naked love-ins, a season of transition & settling in & of disagreements & disharmony right the way through to the bitterly disjointed end.
On paper the successes, or lack of them, weren't too dissimilar to seasons prior. Nearly but not quite, although the nearly became 'nowhere nearly' and the not quite became 'not at all.' A surfeit of organisation countered by a void of goals characterised the early months until the plan went more than awry at the Etihad. Limping on until a dismantling by an ascendant Liverpool, the departure of Villas-Boas mid way through was nonetheless unexpected & i've maintained since that he was less pushed and more agreeably escorted from his office. Never before have I sensed a man's fate be so clearly apparent as was his during that game & particularly in the subsequent interview. Wearing the redundant air of a man choosing to quit before he was fired, I suspect the final meeting was quick & painless, along the lines of 'I'm going' & 'Yes, you are.'
Left with an unforeseen vacancy, Chief Dan Levy cast his net far & wide & found a barren ocean of managerial fish so thawed out a fish finger from the freezer in Tim Sherwood and let things be. Also thawed out was Adebayor, the mercurial striker arriving with vigour & panache whilst as time went on others were cast back to the sea. The existence of the elusive 'Lamela Mermaid' remains, to this day, unproven.

Nice article dude! Found the stats about kaboul and Walker interesting. Kaboul has looked awful to me and Walker bloody brilliant, you reckon the stats used accurately reflect performance there? I guess our defence as a unit being such a clusterfuck maybe makes it hard to apply the stats to individuals in that area

 

[Gedson100]

Sorry to be dumb. What are OP & DP?

They're numbers i've derived from a load of stats to represent Offensive Power and Defensive Power.
So really useful in finding out what a midfielder does.

 

[sloth]

Hey.

I've done a massive stat review of our season if anyone's interested.
Took ages so would be nice if someone read it

http://thebigripple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tottenham-201314-stats-disharmony.html

Here's a sample to whet the whistle:

'Well, Saint, it's a game of two halves.'
So said erstwhile Tottenham legend Jimmy Greaves to his TV partner Ian St John way back when. And for Tottenham, the season 2013/14 was a season of two halves; a season of Villas Boas and Sherwood, a season of selling Elvis and buying the Beatles only for them to disband & start staging naked love-ins, a season of transition & settling in & of disagreements & disharmony right the way through to the bitterly disjointed end.
On paper the successes, or lack of them, weren't too dissimilar to seasons prior. Nearly but not quite, although the nearly became 'nowhere nearly' and the not quite became 'not at all.' A surfeit of organisation countered by a void of goals characterised the early months until the plan went more than awry at the Etihad. Limping on until a dismantling by an ascendant Liverpool, the departure of Villas-Boas mid way through was nonetheless unexpected & i've maintained since that he was less pushed and more agreeably escorted from his office. Never before have I sensed a man's fate be so clearly apparent as was his during that game & particularly in the subsequent interview. Wearing the redundant air of a man choosing to quit before he was fired, I suspect the final meeting was quick & painless, along the lines of 'I'm going' & 'Yes, you are.'
Left with an unforeseen vacancy, Chief Dan Levy cast his net far & wide & found a barren ocean of managerial fish so thawed out a fish finger from the freezer in Tim Sherwood and let things be. Also thawed out was Adebayor, the mercurial striker arriving with vigour & panache whilst as time went on others were cast back to the sea. The existence of the elusive 'Lamela Mermaid' remains, to this day, unproven.

Sorry mate, I was really engrossed in the article until I came to an error: you have AVB achieving 2.08 ppg this season and yet when he was sacked on the 16th of December we'd played 16 and achieved 27 points, if you were correct we'd have been on 33 pts in joint 2nd. a quick scan shows me you've failed to add the 3 losses against top seven sides to the total matches we played under AVB, meaning you've calculated our average ppg as being 27 for only 13 games instead of 16, if you do it right you'll see that in fact our ppg is 1.69, which is of course much worse than TS's haul.

 

[Gedson100]

Nice article dude! Found the stats about kaboul and Walker interesting. Kaboul has looked awful to me and Walker bloody brilliant, you reckon the stats used accurately reflect performance there? I guess our defence as a unit being such a clusterfuck maybe makes it hard to apply the stats to individuals in that area

I hear you!
I wasn't expecting the stats to come out like that either.
Remember Walker played in most of the hammerings whilst Kaboul was out & it's a statistical review; it'll never being entirely definitive because football is a team sport.

 

[Gedson100]

Sorry mate, I was really engrossed in the article until I came to a glaring and fundamental error: you have AVB achieving 2.08 ppg this season and yet when he was sacked on the 16th of December we'd played 16 and achieved 27 points, if you were correct we'd have been on 33 pts in joint 2nd. a quick scan shows me you've failed to add the 3 losses against top seven sides to the total matches we played under AVB, meaning you've calculated our average ppg as being 27 for only 13 games instead of 16, if you do it right you'll see that in fact our ppg is 1.69, which is of course much worse than TS's haul.

Cheers!
Changed.

 

[Grey Fox]

Cheers!
Changed.

Shit, does that mean I have to read it again ?

 

[Bulletspur]

Very good read! However I will have to take your word for it where the accuracy of stats are concerned. Saying that, the overall conclusions reflect my views.

 

[Gedson100]

Shit, does that mean I have to read it again ?

Yep. Turns out Sherwood is a genius after all

 

[Gedson100]

Very good read! However I will have to take your word for it where the accuracy of stats are concerned. Saying that, the overall conclusions reflect my views.

Sure, remember I watch all the matches too so it's not just numbers plucked out of the sky and interpreted.

It took a lot of work and can sit alongside people's own views of the season. It isn't the definitive version, there never will be! Just hope people get something out of it...

 

[Misfit]

tl:dr. Will do later on but well done for the effort matey. You're not just an annoying bellend with suspect morals and questionable hygiene after all.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Hey.

I've done a massive stat review of our season if anyone's interested.
Took ages so would be nice if someone read it

http://thebigripple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tottenham-201314-stats-disharmony.html

Here's a sample to whet the whistle:

'Well, Saint, it's a game of two halves.'
So said erstwhile Tottenham legend Jimmy Greaves to his TV partner Ian St John way back when. And for Tottenham, the season 2013/14 was a season of two halves; a season of Villas Boas and Sherwood, a season of selling Elvis and buying the Beatles only for them to disband & start staging naked love-ins, a season of transition & settling in & of disagreements & disharmony right the way through to the bitterly disjointed end.
On paper the successes, or lack of them, weren't too dissimilar to seasons prior. Nearly but not quite, although the nearly became 'nowhere nearly' and the not quite became 'not at all.' A surfeit of organisation countered by a void of goals characterised the early months until the plan went more than awry at the Etihad. Limping on until a dismantling by an ascendant Liverpool, the departure of Villas-Boas mid way through was nonetheless unexpected & i've maintained since that he was less pushed and more agreeably escorted from his office. Never before have I sensed a man's fate be so clearly apparent as was his during that game & particularly in the subsequent interview. Wearing the redundant air of a man choosing to quit before he was fired, I suspect the final meeting was quick & painless, along the lines of 'I'm going' & 'Yes, you are.'
Left with an unforeseen vacancy, Chief Dan Levy cast his net far & wide & found a barren ocean of managerial fish so thawed out a fish finger from the freezer in Tim Sherwood and let things be. Also thawed out was Adebayor, the mercurial striker arriving with vigour & panache whilst as time went on others were cast back to the sea. The existence of the elusive 'Lamela Mermaid' remains, to this day, unproven.

Really interesting stuff, cheers for posting.