Tag: Hart

• December 18, 2013

  Who is the Premier League’s Best Shot-Stopper?

  Last time out we looked at what we think our goalkeeping model actually measures and the ability of keepers to continually make saves from Zones 1 and 2. We found that the range in ability in Zone 1 was pretty narrow, but as we got further out centrally into Zone 2, the apparent ‘talent gap’…
• December 17, 2013

  Hawkes Bizarre – What can Szczesny’s decision making tell us about luck?

  If you said to the average football fan that there’s no skill involved in around a quarter of the saves professional goalkeepers make they’d say you were bonkers. No doubt anyone of you or us would be hopeless if we were stuck between the sticks in a Premier League game. There’d be guaranteed laughs (almost…