Crazy Stat Time!

[UpTheLeagueFox]

3 hours ago, Stevosevic said:

They are amazing, I agree.

 

But they're also a bit a Spursy. Like when Spurs fans recall the stat they picked up more PL points than any other team over a three year period - but that did not result in any PL titles.

 

It's great to be top 4, but ultimately it's about where you finish after 38 games.

 

You can't really roll out the top 4 stat above if we finish outside the top 4 again this season. 

I think you're comparing apples and oranges here to an extent.

Spurs have been part of the "big six" or "rich six" for some time and therefore should be pushing right at the top end.

We're a smaller club and more of a "work in progress" if you like.

If we finish fifth or sixth (for example) it's still not a dreadful season and shows us being a regular competitor at the right end.

The stats indicate how well we've moved forward.

I'm just grateful to be enjoying the best spell in our history - and that's very different to Spurs.

[st albans fox]

18 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

I think you're comparing apples and oranges here to an extent.

Spurs have been part of the "big six" or "rich six" for some time and therefore should be pushing right at the top end.

We're a smaller club and more of a "work in progress" if you like.

If we finish fifth or sixth (for example) it's still not a dreadful season and shows us being a regular competitor at the right end.

The stats indicate how well we've moved forward.

I'm just grateful to be enjoying the best spell in our history - and that's very different to Spurs.

agreed, its ok for us to be spursy (as long as we stay in the top six and at times qualify for CL)  because we aren't one of the big six - them being spursy is because despite them being in that group, they never win anything !

[Phube]

2 hours ago, Raw Dykes said:

Err, which Kevin do you mean?

The one playing for City.

Which City?

The one in blue.

Which is why I voted for Fosse! 

[Carl the Llama]

12 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

agreed, its ok for us to be spursy (as long as we stay in the top six and at times qualify for CL)  because we aren't one of the big six - them being spursy is because despite them being in that group, they never win anything !

Punching above your weight so consistently that people start to question if you're in the right category isn't spursy though?

[foxes_rule1978]

7 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

Punching above your weight so consistently that people start to question if you're in the right category isn't spursy though?

Exactly, Spursy is falling short of what you should be achieving and doing so in somewhat dramatic fashion. Like when they finished 3rd when we won the title and arsenal got above them. That is Spursy. We aren’t doing a Spursy even if we drop out the top four because no one really believed we would be there in the first place. Doing a Spursy would be dropping to like 8/9th for us IMO. 

[urban.spaceman]

Confirmed... They're the worst champions ever.

 

 

 

[The Quick Brown Fox]

19 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Confirmed... They're the worst champions ever.

 

 

 

Don't know if this is tongue in cheek or serious. 

To me this just shows that they were at an unreal level last season, which let's be honest was unsustainable. 

[Staff]

1 hour ago, browniefox said:

Don't know if this is tongue in cheek or serious. 

To me this just shows that they were at an unreal level last season, which let's be honest was unsustainable. 

It's was the PEDs

[Grebfromgrebland]

It was the asthma treatment that they all suddenly needed.  

[peach0000]

20 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Confirmed... They're the worst champions ever.

 

 

 

Are we just going to pretend that we didn’t try our best to get relegated during our title defence.

[Facecloth]

4 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

Are we just going to pretend that we didn’t try our best to get relegated during our title defence.

We were 26 points down on our title winning season. 47 points to 21.

[peach0000]

Just now, Facecloth said:

We were 26 points down on our title winning season. 47 points to 21.

Just shows how useless stats are more than anything. It just shows how good Liverpool were last season more than anything else. I mean we were defending champions sat on 21 points at this stage of the season Liverpool have almost double that on 40. You can't say in all sincerity that they are worse defending champions that we were. (or Chelsea for that matter)

[Facecloth]

Just now, peach0000 said:

Just shows how useless stats are more than anything. It just shows how good Liverpool were last season more than anything else. I mean we were defending champions sat on 21 points at this stage of the season Liverpool have almost double that on 40. You can't say in all sincerity that they are worse defending champions that we were. (or Chelsea for that matter)

Oh yeah the stat is bollocks, but you can use stats to say anything. It doesnt take into account Liverpool ridiculously high total at this stage last year and our relatively low total at the same stage in 2016.

[foxes_rule1978]

29 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

Just shows how useless stats are more than anything. It just shows how good Liverpool were last season more than anything else. I mean we were defending champions sat on 21 points at this stage of the season Liverpool have almost double that on 40. You can't say in all sincerity that they are worse defending champions that we were. (or Chelsea for that matter)

We were terrible champions, we had fallen into what everyone believed would happen back to being relegation fodder. Thankfully things turned around, and we are starting to prove people wrong by continuing to fight at the top end of the table. 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

If all the final points totals are tallied up for the years since Leicester returned to the Premier League in 2014, they rank seventh (behind 'the big six') with an average of 55 points.

 

As The Athletic showed in September, Leicester’s social media following across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram was the seventh highest in the Premier League, at just over 12.5 million.

Edited 9 February 2021 by UpTheLeagueFox

[Facecloth]

2 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

If all the final points totals are tallied up for the years since Leicester returned to the Premier League in 2014, they rank seventh (behind 'the big six') with an average of 55 points.

via The Athletic

Is there a copy of that table? How far behind 6th are we?

[UpTheLeagueFox]

18 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Is there a copy of that table? How far behind 6th are we?

 

[Facecloth]

9 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

 

A gap to make up then. We've made 12 points on Arsenal so far this season.

[Les-TA-Jon]

Since we've been back in the Premier League, there's been 10 other clubs that have been in the division during that time. Discounting the anomaly of 2016, we're the only team out of those 11 clubs to post a high points total each season, compared to the previous one. 

[KingsX]

1 hour ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

 

 

Everton are SO boringly consistent.  They've threatened each end of the table, what, once in the last 20 years?

 

The kiddie coaster of football clubs.  Wheeeeeeey!

 

[peach0000]

15 minutes ago, KingsX said:

 

Everton are SO boringly consistent.  They've threatened each end of the table, what, once in the last 20 years?

 

The kiddie coaster of football clubs.  Wheeeeeeey!

 

Reminds me of Ipswich for much of the past 20 years. Mid table obscurity. It must be so boring.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

Probably posted elsewhere but it's the first time we've reached successive FA Cup quarter finals since 1968 and 1969.

[FOXSE]

5 hours ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Probably posted elsewhere but it's the first time we've reached successive FA Cup quarter finals since 1968 and 1969.

Wow!

[HoChiMinhFOX]

[Webbo]

Vardy second highest scorer against Liverpool in the PL. 8 goals level with Henry.

Edited 13 February 2021 by Webbo