Tag: Allardyce

• June 29, 2013

  Preventing Opposition Shots from Good Areas

  There are three managers in the Premier League who appear to fully understand the mechanics of taking and conceding shots from the right positions. Well there were three. There’s only one left and his name is Sam Allardyce. One of the others was his partner in football crime, Tony Pulis. The other one was Sir…
• June 9, 2013

  Converting Shots – Repeats and Repeatability 1

  So there’s been lots of recent ‘chat’ on Twitter about how much conversion rates vary and how much of it is down to skill or luck. Well, we’ve got some data here at Differentgame so we thought we’d wade into the debate with some of it. We say ‘wade’, we’re not skilled mathematicians here at…