Crazy Stat Time!

[turtmcfly]

18 minutes ago, Koke said:

Its impressive but but the caveat is not many players stay in the PL for a full decade. If guys like Suarez, CR7, Diego Costa etc stayed in this league they would be above Vardy. 

 

That said, it's still impressive. He will soon join the 100 PL goals club.

 

There is a caveat in reverse - he's done it for a team who on average have finished in 9th position over the 5 seasons he's played in the Prem.

 

[StanSP]

 

[Koke]

7 hours ago, StanSP said:

 

 

I'm not trying to come across as a miserable cvnt and sound like Chris Sutton but those comparisons are slightly misleading.

 

Out of those, Bergkamp was more of a second striker and at times a CAM. Torres stats look worse due to his diabolical spell at Chelsea when he fell off a cliff, but fair play to Vardy on this. Ronaldo was a winger at United. Only legit one he is above is Tevez which is impressive as Tevez was a world class player. The rest is comparing apples with oranges.

 

EDIT: of course as @turtmcfly said Vardy played for a mid table team whilst those played for CL teams.

Edited 30 October 2019 by Koke

[Aus Fox]

5 hours ago, Koke said:

 

I'm not trying to come across as a miserable cvnt and sound like Chris Sutton but those comparisons are slightly misleading.

 

Out of those, Bergkamp was more of a second striker and at times a CAM. Torres stats look worse due to his diabolical spell at Chelsea when he fell off a cliff, but fair play to Vardy on this. Ronaldo was a winger at United. Only legit one he is above is Tevez which is impressive as Tevez was a world class player. The rest is comparing apples with oranges.

 

EDIT: of course as @turtmcfly said Vardy played for a mid table team whilst those played for CL teams.

I agree to some extent about Bergkamp and Ronaldo, however, I disagree with your comment about Torres isn’t that what we are celebrating that Vardy has been consistent over such a long period of time? 
Many in the world would consider Torres a great striker, however, he couldn’t sustain it over 5 season like Vardy has.

Dont forget also in that time he played for a manager who didn’t play to his strengths and dropped him to play a winger as a lone striker.

 

Also, as you mention Chris I’m too good for the England B team’ Sutton

278 games 85 goals. Add him to the list

 

[Captain...]

8 hours ago, Koke said:

 

I'm not trying to come across as a miserable cvnt and sound like Chris Sutton but those comparisons are slightly misleading.

 

Out of those, Bergkamp was more of a second striker and at times a CAM. Torres stats look worse due to his diabolical spell at Chelsea when he fell off a cliff, but fair play to Vardy on this. Ronaldo was a winger at United. Only legit one he is above is Tevez which is impressive as Tevez was a world class player. The rest is comparing apples with oranges.

 

EDIT: of course as @turtmcfly said Vardy played for a mid table team whilst those played for CL teams.

I know he's not there yet and his goals per game ratio will change but as it stands his gpg ratio is 0.4785

 

That is better than all but 6 of the PL 100 club. 

Edited 30 October 2019 by Captain...

[lildave3]

28 minutes ago, Captain... said:

I know he's not there yet and his goals per game ratio will change but as it stands his gpg ratio is 4.785

 

That is better than all but 6 of the PL 100 club. 

What is 4.785? 

[Captain...]

9 minutes ago, lildave3 said:

What is 4.785? 

Me being a dumbass,  0.4785 goals per game

[Aus Fox]

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Edited 30 October 2019 by Aus Fox

[StriderHiryu]

 

This was his current ratio at the start of the month. Usually you would say a player with a 0.5 average (IE a goal every 2 games) is a world class striker, especially if this is maintained across a long period of time.

 

Vardy's is very impressive when you consider his lack of goals in our first season up, given that we were shite until the last 9 games, and that he's playing for a mid-table team. That's why Shearer's record was always so impressive - had he played for Man United he would almost certainly have score even more than he did.

 

Currently Vardy has 9 goals in 10 Premier League appearances - truly world class. A product IMO of Rodgers playing attacking aggressive football meaning he gets more chances a season that he did before. As it stands, if he doesn't get injured, I would be highly disappointed if he doesn't get 20 goals, and 25 or even 30 is achievable if we keep playing as well as we have.

 

Forget his pace, Vardy is a clinical finisher with superb off the ball movement. He has scored 3 headers already this season despite being shorter than 6 foot. He is an all-round complete striker and living legend for the club.

 

 

Edited 30 October 2019 by StriderHiryu

[Xen]

15 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

Currently Vardy has 9 goals in 10 Premier League appearances - truly world class. A product IMO of Rodgers playing attacking aggressive football meaning he gets more chances a season that he did before. As it stands, if he doesn't get injured, I would be highly disappointed if he doesn't get 20 goals, and 25 or even 30 is achievable if we keep playing as well as we have.

Just to emphasise that he's done all that and has this record despite our opening fixtures being some of the toughest in the division on paper. And whilst he's traditionally had success against those bigger teams, this season at least the goals have all come against mid-to-lower table sides, of which we're about to go on a run of games against.

 

He could well be on upwards of 15 goals by the time Christmas rolls around and well on track for that 25+ mark. Would be amazing to see him win the Golden Boot for the season.

[StriderHiryu]

2 minutes ago, Xen said:

Just to emphasise that he's done all that and has this record despite our opening fixtures being some of the toughest in the division on paper. And whilst he's traditionally had success against those bigger teams, this season at least the goals have all come against mid-to-lower table sides, of which we're about to go on a run of games against.

 

He could well be on upwards of 15 goals by the time Christmas rolls around and well on track for that 25+ mark. Would be amazing to see him win the Golden Boot for the season.

This was posted on Sky recently and underlines everything you've just said. Vardy always had a great record against the top teams due to our effective counter attacking. But under Rodgers we are now a front-foot team and Vardy can flat-track bully the lower placed sides. Credit to Rodgers, he's solved the problems of dropping too many points to lower placed teams and Vardy is a key reason why.

[turtmcfly]

1 minute ago, StriderHiryu said:

This was posted on Sky recently and underlines everything you've just said. Vardy always had a great record against the top teams due to our effective counter attacking. But under Rodgers we are now a front-foot team and Vardy can flat-track bully the lower placed sides. Credit to Rodgers, he's solved the problems of dropping too many points to lower placed teams and Vardy is a key reason why.

 

Take the first season out of that (when he wasn't playing as an out-and-out striker, and we finished 14th)... In the last four seasons it's 0.62

[Xen]

5 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said:

This was posted on Sky recently and underlines everything you've just said. Vardy always had a great record against the top teams due to our effective counter attacking. But under Rodgers we are now a front-foot team and Vardy can flat-track bully the lower placed sides. Credit to Rodgers, he's solved the problems of dropping too many points to lower placed teams and Vardy is a key reason why.

If I remember right that was posted before the Southampton game, too, so there's not even an argument to say that the hattrick has skewed the figures. Lovely.

 

Assuming that rate remains constant, he'll be on 9 + 0.58 + 6.48 = 16.06 goals by the halfway point at Christmas, so definitely achievable. That includes home games against Watford, Everton and Norwich, who make up the bottom 3 of the 'Away' table, conceding an average of 2.13 goals per game, whereas we're 2nd in the 'Home' table and scoring 2.4 goals per game. Plenty of opportunity for Vardy to up his tally.

[smitha]

The last two games Andre Marriner has refereed there has been 19 goals scored, and 9 penalties!!

Edited 30 October 2019 by smitha

[Leeds Fox]

41 minutes ago, smitha said:

The last two games Andre Marriner has refereed there has been 19 goals scored, and 9 penalties!!

 

Well there were 10 penalties in the shootout tonight. 

[KrefelderFox666]

8 hours ago, Leeds Fox said:

 

Well there were 10 penalties in the shootout tonight. 

I think he meant penalties scored, not taken. So yes, that is the penalty shootout.

[Facecloth]

41 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

I think he meant penalties scored, not taken. So yes, that is the penalty shootout.

Surely its 11 then. 9 in the shoot out and wasn't there one during each game?

[KrefelderFox666]

6 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Surely its 11 then. 9 in the shoot out and wasn't there one during each game?

I think he means, 9 goals in the 90 mins of Southampton vs Leicester, 10 goals in the normal 90 minutes last night, and then 9 penalties scored in the shootout.

 

And yes, 2 of those 19 goals scored within the 90 mins were penalties.

[Xen]

6 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

I think he means, 9 goals in the 90 mins of Southampton vs Leicester, 10 goals in the normal 90 minutes last night, and then 9 penalties scored in the shootout.

 

And yes, 2 of those 19 goals scored within the 90 mins were penalties.

Most likely this, as penalty shoot-outs don't count towards 'goals scored'.

[Koke]

Bit left field but our first signing of the decade was Tom Kennedy, January 2010. He was 24 at the time. Poor guy never recovered after his poor spell with us. He became a journeyman and ended his career with Bangor City 

[Rain King]

6 minutes ago, Koke said:

Bit left field but our first signing of the decade was Tom Kennedy, January 2010. He was 24 at the time. Poor guy never recovered after his poor spell with us. He became a journeyman and ended his career with Bangor City 

 

He joined in July. Looking on the transfer section of this site it seems Nol Solano was the first signing of the 10s.

Edited 31 October 2019 by pds

[Corky]

How often has there been more goals in the match (10) than the shoot-out (9)?

[StanSP]

8 minutes ago, Corky said:

How often has there been more goals in the match (10) than the shoot-out (9)?

Not sure about how often (I'd guess very rare) but last time it happened was Walsall vs Macclesfield August 2018. 3-3 in normal time then 3-1 on penalties.

 

[fuchsntf]

On 30/10/2019 at 05:46, Koke said:

 

I'm not trying to come across as a miserable cvnt and sound like Chris Sutton but those comparisons are slightly misleading.

 

Out of those, Bergkamp was more of a second striker and at times a CAM. Torres stats look worse due to his diabolical spell at Chelsea when he fell off a cliff, but fair play to Vardy on this. Ronaldo was a winger at United. Only legit one he is above is Tevez which is impressive as Tevez was a world class player. The rest is comparing apples with oranges.

 

EDIT: of course as @turtmcfly said Vardy played for a mid table team whilst those played for CL teams.

Koke...Chris Sutton Version II...

and I used to like you..

[Foxxed]

Our goal difference is +17. Southampton's -17.