football is slowing moving back to the days of free and flowing football

Originally Posted by marlo

have to wait until after todays games to be fair. the stat is incomplete.

unless you left out the two last european games.
those two games were.(http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl...107/index.html)
fernabache 0 - 2 chelsea
arsenal 2 - 4 liverpool

can you subtract those 8 goals and see what you get. just to compare like with like.

Erm....that's why I said I divided this years by 6 and last years by 8.

You really don't understand what average means do you?

semi-finals are hard to predict

United's last two finished 5-3 and 1-0 for example

2.5 per game I make that

last season the other semi had an average of below 2 per game, and the year before it was significantly lower


similarly, most finals have 3 goals or less - the vast majority of them across all major competitions in fact

CL last year? 1-1
League Cup this year? 0-0
FA Cup last year? 1-0


etc

Originally Posted by Whalefish

The average isn't going to be affected by any significant amount in the next 7 league games. Unless all teams start winning at a canter, which is unlikely.

Were this a piece of work/report an average to date (31 games) could/should be given with a warning of sorts. A proxy extrapolated from x number of games. You don't always compare like with like so long as a bit of context is given.

Since the average is unlikely to be affected significantly I'd argue a comparison to previous years data is fine.

Marlo knows all this. He just prefers to argue the most minor of points that will have no bearing rather than admit he was wrong.

I actually deleted (to date) out of the original post because it made my list look untidy.

Originally Posted by marlo

who stole your brain billy?

clearly not you

Originally Posted by Billy Baroo

clearly not you

zing

Originally Posted by Billy Baroo

clearly not you

wouldnt want it billy.....wouldnt want it.

Originally Posted by marlo

wouldnt want it billy.....wouldnt want it.

i can sleep easy then

so no one can counter my point with accurate stat which proves im wrong??

Originally Posted by marlo

so no one can counter my point with accurate stat which proves im wrong??

well on your basis we would need everything to be identical season on season to provide a workable average

same players, weather, pitch conditions, order of fixtures

Originally Posted by Billy Baroo

well on your basis we would need everything to be identical season on season to provide a workable average

same players, weather, pitch conditions, order of fixtures

attention to detail is main quality an accountant should possess.

Originally Posted by marlo

attention to detail is main quality an accountant should possess.

the main quality

Originally Posted by marlo

attention to detail is main quality an accountant should possess.

That and being a £#%&!er.

Originally Posted by marlo

so no one can counter my point with accurate stat which proves im wrong??

you haven't got a point. you're just ignoring what everyone else recognises as a pretty comprehensive case.

Originally Posted by marlo

attention to detail is main quality an accountant should possess.

no it isn't