Match Ratings : Season Summary (Part 1) - Referee and Opposition Awards

[DB11]

Over the course of the 2016-17 season, FoxesTalk visitors have been able to cast votes after each Leicester City fixture. I will post a summary of these over the next few days and they will be in three parts.

• Part 1: Referee and Opposition Awards
• Part 2: Manager and Team Awards
• Part 3: Player Awards

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Referees

 

Best Refereeing Performance : Nicola Rizzoli

1. Nicola Rizzoli @ Leicester City 1-0 FC Copenhagen : 7.57
2. Clement Turpin @ Sevilla 2-1 Leicester City : 7.45
3. Ruddy Buquet @ Leicester City 2-1 Club Brugge : 7.42
4. Michael Oliver @ Leicester City 3-1 Liverpool : 7.40
5. Mark Clattenburg @ Derby County 2-2 Leicester City : 7.35

 

Worst Refereeing Performance : Bobby Madley

1. Bobby Madley @ Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Leicester City : 2.63
2. Mike Jones @ Leicester City 3-1 Derby County : 2.73
3. Anthony Taylor @ Leicester City 1-0 West Ham United : 2.76
4. Cüneyt Çakır @ Leicester City 1-0 FC Porto : 3.16
5. Jonas Eriksson @ Athletico Madrid 1-0 Leicester City : 3.20

 

Top Voted Premier League Referee : Michael Oliver

1. Michael Oliver : 6.86 (5 games)
2. Roger East : 6.48 (3 games)
3. Andre Marriner : 6.07 (3 games)
4. Martin Atkinson : 5.95 (2 games)
5. Graham Scott : 5.90 (1 game)
6. Jon Moss : 5.87 (1 game)
7. Mark Clattenburg : 5.70 (3 games)
8. Lee Mason : 5.64 (3 games)
9. Craig Pawson : 5.60 (4 games)
10. Neil Swarbrick : 5.38 (1 game)
11. Stuart Attwell : 5.30 (1 game)
12. Mike Dean : 5.22 (5 games)
13. Bobby Madley : 4.90 (5 games)
14. Anthony Taylor : 4.88 (3 games)
15. Paul Tierney : 4.88 (1 game)
16. Mike Jones : 3.87 (2 games)

 

European Referees

1. Nicola Rizzoli : 7.57 (1 game)
2. Clement Turpin : 7.45 (1 game)
3. Ruddy Buquet : 7.42 (1 game)
4. Gianluca Rocchi : 6.81 (1 game)
5. Felix Zwayer : 6.66 (1 game)
6. Daniele Orsato : 6.15 (1 game)
7. Tasos Sidiropoulos : 6.07 (1 game)
8. Felix Brych : 5.92 (1 game)
9. Jonas Eriksson : 3.20 (1 game)
10. Cüneyt Çakır : 3.16 (1 game)

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Opposition

 

Best Opposition Performance : Tottenham Hotspur (H)

1. 18/05/17 - Leicester City 1-6 Tottenham Hotspur : 8.50
2. 10/09/16 - Liverpool 4-1 Leicester City : 8.00
3. 18/04/17 - Leicester City 1-1 Athletico Madrid : 7.95
4. 14/01/17 - Leicester City 0-3 Chelsea : 7.56
5. 22/02/17 - Sevilla 2-1 Leicester City : 7.42

 

Worst Opposition Performance : Club Brugge (A)

1. 14/09/16 - Club Brugge 0-3 Leicester City : 3.89
2. 17/09/16 - Leicester City 3-0 Burnley : 4.30
3. 01/04/17 - Leicester City 2-0 Stoke City : 4.41
4. 27/02/17 - Leicester City 3-1 Liverpool : 4.50
5. 06/05/17 - Leicester City 3-0 Watford : 4.60

 

Opposition League Table

(Premier League Only)

1. Chelsea : 7.44
2. Tottenham Hotspur : 7.23
3. Manchester United : 6.84
4. Southampton : 6.45
5. Liverpool: 6.25
6. West Ham: 6.14
7. Crystal Palace: 6.13
8. Everton: 6.08
9. Bournemouth: 5.99
10. Manchester City: 5.77
11. Hull City: 5.70
12. Middlesbrough: 5.65
13. Arsenal: 5.51
14. Sunderland: 5.48
15. West Brom: 5.48
16. Watford: 5.40
17. Stoke: 5.39
18. Swansea City: 5.19
19. Burnley: 5.12

Adding the Leicester City team, based on average team performance, would see us finishing in 10th place with an average rating of 5.86

European Opposition

1. Athletico Madrid : 7.53
2. Sevilla : 6.78
3. FC Porto : 6.72
4. FC Copenhagen : 5.91
5. Club Brugge : 4.64

[fazzyfox]

Interesting to compare the opposition table to the actual one, Arsenal with a jammy deflection away and lucky to come away unbeaten at the King Power are significantly lower than their league finish whilst Middlesborough showed more (or you could say that due to the timing of the fixtures were able to show more) against us than they managed against most others. Burnley crumbled after the fist goal in our home game and only a handball aided goal helped them at their place and they failed to impress, coming last in that table but rarely looked likely to go down. Man City were generally poor until their late rally in our home game and away they looked there for the taking relying on a bizarre day by Bobby Madley to bail them out. Which brings me to Madley. We had him five times, too high a ratio for me when there's more than 9 or 10 refs out there! The European refs fare well aside from the Porto ref who fell for everything and Athletico away "Kerching". All very interesting, good work.

[Livid]

Against us Bournemouth always look decent. Along with Arsenal and Man Utd I believe they are the only team we haven't beaten in the last two seasons.

[eblair]

I don't know how the porto ref wasn't the worst on the year, don't think there's another game where a ref hasn't made a major decision but still the ref is the defining memory of that game. Also odd to see our worst and best refs have all been from the champions league

[ousefox]

Thanks for doing these all season @DB11. Always enjoy reading these and I know it must take some effort.

[Koke]

Pretty accurate numbers. Represents the sesson well.

 

Who was the ref at Stoke who sent Vardy off? We lost our heads that day. 

[TheUltimateWinner]

19 minutes ago, Koke said:

Pretty accurate numbers. Represents the sesson well.

 

Who was the ref at Stoke who sent Vardy off? We lost our heads that day. 

Pawson

[TheUltimateWinner]

Very interesting stats, crazy to learn we've had Madley 5 times this season.

 

Agree with those ref ratings, Oliver being the stand out in the prem as always.

[Stadt]

Haha Palace 7th in the opposition table even though we scored 5 goals against them and took 4 points

[foxy boxing]

Clearly the European referees were head and shoulders above the Premier league ones

[DB11]

Was hoping to do part two today but I was five hours late off!! Hopefully tomorrow  

[Dan]

The Copenhagen referee has 100% won that because of how bad the one against Porto was  

[Dan]

West Ham 6th in the opposition table despite being the only side we did the double over  mad how it works.

[Livid]

To have that low an average score after 5 games in charge really highlights how poor Dean and Madley are.

 

 

Maybe it's our style of play just doesn't go with their style of refereeing?

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Can't believe Pawson from Stoke away isn't in the top five worst.

 

 

He and the linesmen too were dire that day. 

[Ian Nacho]

That Turkish ref we had against Porto had to be the worst for me. Although there have been some referees that have given incorrect game changing decisions, such as Stoke and Madrid, this guy literally got everything wrong.

[norwichfox]

Thanks once again for your sterling efforts on these stats, they are very much appreciated....and make for an interesting read.