One of the widest chasms in the realm of professional sports is the one between stats and the eye test. While the two sides can pass large chunks of time coexisting peacefully, there’s hell to pay when they don’t agree. As a self-professed data nerd and “person who writes things he’d like you to read” I felt it might be nice to take a minute during the slow time of the year to show you how I use data to show how smart and cool I am look at the world of football.
If it isn’t on late night, ditch the top ten
One of the main uses of stats is to try to quantify how far apart teams or players are away from each other.