Super statto: Sears
March 5th, 2010
By Brian Sears
5 March 2010
If we define a nail-biting game as one in which the result could be changed with the last kick of the match, then they’re becoming rarer in the Premier League. Never before this season has the percentage of nail-biters been as low as this campaign.
In the first season of the Premier League, as many as 67.3 per cent of top-flight league games were nail biters, with just one goal at most separating the teams at the final whistle.
That rose to 68.2 per cent in 1993-94 and has settled at pretty much the mid-60s in percentage terms...
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February 26th, 2010
By Brian Sears
26 February 2010
Never before in Premier League history have there been so many “big cushion” wins, and by that I mean wins by three clear goals or more. Already this season there have been 50 of them altogether among 196 wins by all teams combined. In the whole of last season there were 53. The percentage of “BC” wins is running at a whopping 25.5 per cent, which is much higher than in any previous season, as today’s top table (Margins of Victory) shows.
As recently as last weekend, Blackburn (by beating Bolton 3-0) and West Ham (by beating...
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February 19th, 2010
By Brian Sears
19 February 2010
Occasionally in this life as a statistician, you unearth a statistical gem so lovely that you want to pop it into your anorak pocket, go for a stroll around town in the splendid late-winter sunshine, and share it with everyone you meet. Today, dear readers, is such a day.
I’ve been looking this week at the records of the seven teams who have been ever-present in the Premier League since it began in 1992 against the promoted teams each season, as you do. The ‘Resident 7’, as we’ll call them, are Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton,...
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