Articles tagged with "statistics"
Over the Hill? Michael Owen Would Disagree
By Taylor Rockwell | July 24th, 2009Since he signed for United nearly a month ago, there has been a fair amount of back and forth regarding Michael Owen. If you were ...
The 2008/09 Season: In Pep We Trust
By Isaiah | June 4th, 2009Wow. There's not much you can say other than that word. It's almost unfathomable what occurred. Nine players left and six players arrived (the 7th, Henrique, ...
Serie A Statistics 2008-2009
By Francesco | June 2nd, 2009So we all know in American sports there are statistics for everything. On base percentage, field goal percentage, runs batted in, how many times a ...
The Monday Numbers 5.11.09
By Bob Kellett | May 11th, 2009Count the near misses Portland TimbersTeam Leaders: Minutes Played Cameron Knowles 360 David Hayes 359 Tony McManus 355 Shots Mandjou Keita 13 Ryan Pore 11 Johan Claesson 8 Fouls Tony McManus 8 Cameron Knowles, Mandjou Keita, ...
The Monday Numbers
By Bob Kellett | May 4th, 2009Minutes Played Cameron Knowles 270 Tony McManus 270 David Hayes 269 It is worth noting that other than the Iron Man Knowles only two players from the 2008 squad ...
Preview: Barça - Numancia; Saturday 4pmEST, GolTV
By Isaiah | January 23rd, 2009Venganza. That's the word for this match. Revenge, vengeance, getting even, retribution, or whatever else you want to call it (thanks, Thesaurus.com!), that's what we're ...
The Great Midseason Post
By Isaiah | January 19th, 2009We just finished the magical 19th game, which means that all and sundry begin to do the whole "midseason" thing. I'm not going to exempt ...
A Statistical View of Serie A
By Francesco | December 11th, 2008I know statistics are big mostly in American sports. You'll turn on Sportscenter and here a random sportscaster be like "This player has a 65.7893034% ...
Comparison: Barça-Chelsea-Inter
By Isaiah | November 24th, 2008Thanks to a comment by reader ballbeav, I've decided to compare the big leagues and their current leaders. There's always debate about which league is ...
Soccer Prospectus, Pt 1
By Isaiah | November 20th, 2008I just got my copy of College Basketball Prospectus, meaning that during the evenings I'm glued to both the TV and the page as I ...
Where We Stand: 100 Games Down
By Isaiah | November 10th, 2008Before we get started, here's a little bit of site news: the Barça Offside page improved its record number of visits in a single month ...
Lucky 13 - All of our rounds in the SPL
By Ian Rose | November 2nd, 2008The SPL season is a funny sort of beast. Its 38 matches (at least that's standard) can be divided into four parts. First, ...
Squad Rotations: Are We Thinking Clearly?
By Isaiah | October 20th, 2008Recently there was a spate of comments asking for Bojan's inclusion in the rotation system that is going on at Barça. Is this a well-founded ...
State of the League: back to the grind
By Isaiah | October 15th, 2008It's International Week again, so the kids are all out with their respective national sides, leaving us precious little to discuss. Just my luck, of ...
Let's be honest....
By James | September 22nd, 2008I felt it necessary to reply to anybody still claiming that Steven Gerrard's offside goal should have stood and that it is for this ...
Bad at Math: Predicting the rest of the season
By James | July 15th, 2008More fun with statistics: I've been playing with the numbers available at mlsnet.com and wanted to see if there was a simple-yet-interesting method for predicting ...
Columbus Crew vs. Kansas City Wizards: Match Preview
By James | July 15th, 2008I've been looking at the statistics available from MLS. It's hard to guess how adding Josh Wolff will change the look of Kansas City. ...
Alessandro Del Piero's 2007-08 Season in Numbers
By Marco P. | May 25th, 2008So ADP won the Capocannoniere title, and he's real happy about it (and so are we). But aren't you wondering just how he achieved it? ...
Survey Says: 70% of Spanish Fans Prefer Football to Sex
By Ian Rose | May 25th, 2008... although it's difficult to imagine a situation where you couldn't put one off a few hours for the other. I mean, come ...
Top One-Man Offenses in Europe
By Ian Rose | May 25th, 2008We all know that Cristiano Ronaldo (love him or hate him) took home this year's European Golden Boot for his 31 Premier League goals. ...
The 2007/8 Champions League. In Numbers.
By Rob | May 6th, 2008This season's Champions League is quickly drawing to a close. Just two teams remain, Chelsea and Manchester United. So while the CL Offisde team prepares ...
Barcelona - Levante: Sunday 1pm EST
By Isaiah | February 22nd, 2008The fortune teller in me is saying the end of this weekend will be just like it began: 5 points back of Real Madrid, but ...
Round of 32, Leg 1, By the Numbers
By Ian Rose | February 14th, 2008Here's a little statistical breakdown of the sixteen matches played in the first leg of the round of 32 in this year's UEFA Cup, with ...
Barcelona: a statistical analysis of the defense
By Isaiah | December 16th, 2007The question of Barcelona's defensive capabilities has been brought up before, in comments, and I'd like to take a moment or 10 to delve into ...
An Interesting Debate: Head-to-head vs Goal differential
By Isaiah | June 4th, 2007This topic has already been covered somewhat by my colleague and now fierce rival, Mauricio. Eloquent though he may be in describing why Madrid deserve ...
Stat shot
By Isaiah | May 16th, 2007Here is a little graphic of where Barcelona stands with 4 games to go: It's more for your enjoyment than for me to comment upon. I'll ...
Tracking the Revs
By Sabin | May 4th, 2007Revs' Schedule and Results: 2004 - 2007 I've started tracking the Revs' performance as compared to the last three seasons. You can check out the progress ...
My Coupe runneth over: League Cup Final! Preview!
By Sam | March 30th, 2007As Bob reported yesterday, League Cups could be on their way to getting a little more attention in years to come. This sets the stage ...
Eto’o Returns, Barça Wins, Critics Shut Up
By Isaiah | February 26th, 2007If what Barça have needed all along was a healthy dose of Samuel Eto’o, well, now we’ve got it and, if the weekend is any ...
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