Phoenix stats

Well, I don't know what they mean, but they're interesting.

I'd have thought that number of passes attempted/completed reflects the amount of possession you have. The lower the figure, the less possession you have. And vice versa.

Not necessarily. We tend to run down the wings quite a lot, and siggy/dura etc with their runs through the middle. Surely that wouldn't count as a pass, but eats up a bit of possession. I mean, it would be pretty similar, but may change it a little??

I also think that our lack of pace in the strikers makes it harder to play a possession game. Defences can safely push up higher on us reducing the space in the middle.

righto,

I'll go for 131

I am not going to take this fred seriously until there is a couple of bar graphs, a scatter plot with a polynomial regression line and a PCA graph (to satisfy the social scientists out there).

Don't think so. Running with the ball doesn't really take that much time , eventually you have to pass it around to get somewhere. It's not Playstation football so you can keep sprinting down the wings the whole game.

But I guess the possession stats are also influenced by set-pieces (goal-kicks, corners, free kicks) so maybe we don't come out as badly in possession stats as our passing stats would seem to suggest.

Agree with this.

133

The HAL has had a lot of close finishes, I'm sure at least one season has come down to goals scored - 2008�09 season Melbourne and Adelaide finished on 38 points with a GD of +12, Melbourne won the league scoring 39 to Adelaide's 31.

The 2007-2008 season was decided by GD, CCM pipping Newcastle by GD difference of 1 goal.

134

I suspect Phoenix would be pretty high on this stat?

Lots if we include all the times that Warner and Paston have tried. Junior822012-03-15 13:01:06

Shots on target Roar 174 Mariners 172 Sydney 164 Heart 157 Gold Coast 144 Phoenix 134 Adelaide 130 Victory 126 Jets 124 Glory 123

Ok some nix squad questions. Here are the top 5 and bottom 5 of minutes played for our squad (exlcuding non-appearence).  Who fills the places.

The SPL came down to goal difference a few years back.

Andrew Durante 2160
Ben SigmUnd 2116
Tim Brown 2070
Manny Muscat 2070
Chris Greenacre 2067

Note to whoever is updating Phoenix wiki page, playing time is not matched with actual figures

So GCU are 5th in the league for shots on target, but 2nd last for goals scored. How does that work? Are they all at the keeper?

Damn, my guess was ridiculously close.

No, at least not unless the stats the commentators kept blabbering on about were incorrect. Gold Coast were apparently near the top for total shots at one stage, but too many of them were off target.

Ok next up.  Nix have had 10 scorers.  Here are their goals per shot.  Where do the scorers rank.

0.25 Siggy
0.17 Manny
0.17 Durante
0.13 Sanchez
0.13 Pavlovich
0.12 Ward
0.11 Ifill
0.11 Daniel
0.09 Greenacre
0.06 Brown

Thinking about it some more I'm guessing I have Pav too high, he had about 5 shots in one movement against Gold Coast. Sanchez is probably too high as well.

0.25 Manny
0.17 Ifill
0.17 Durante
0.13 Ward
0.13 Sanchez
0.12 Daniel
0.11 Siggy
0.11 Pavlovich
0.09 Brown
0.06 Greenacre

0.25 Durante
0.17 Daniel
0.17 Muscat
0.13 Smith Siggy
0.13 Paav
0.12 Ward
0.11 Brown
0.11 Ifill
0.09 Sanchez
0.06 Smithpatrick4782012-03-15 15:03:21

SigmUnd 0.25 Ifill 0.17 Pavlovic 0.17 Durante 0.13 Brown 0.13 Sanchez 0.12 Daniel 0.11 Greenacre 0.11 Muscat 0.09 Smith 0.06

Nick Ward scored in Dunedin.

Paul Ifill Utility (Midfield/Striker)  (Barbados) Wellington Phoenix 7   Tim Brown Central Midfielder  (New Zealand) Wellington Phoenix 5   Dani Sanchez Striker  (Spain) Wellington Phoenix 5   Chris Greenacre Striker  (England) Wellington Phoenix 4   Daniel Attacking Midfielder  (Brazil) Wellington Phoenix 2   Mirjan Pavlovic Striker  (Australia) Wellington Phoenix 2   Ben SigmUnd Central Defender  (New Zealand) Wellington Phoenix 2   Nick Ward Attacking Midfielder  (Australia) Wellington Phoenix 2   Andrew Durante Central Defender  (Australia) Wellington Phoenix 1   Manny Muscat Left Full Back  (Australia) Wellington Phoenix 1   Alex Smith Striker  (United States of America) Wellington Phoenix 1  

My bad. Missed him out somehow.  he's on 0.14

Who are our top 5 passes per minute played.

But that stat was shots on target. I'm still confused.

0.37 Griffiths
0.32 Durante
0.31 Smith
0.29 Siggy
0.28 Muscat

You've got two names right, but in the wrong position.

Wasn't Manny's also in stoppage time vs perth?

edit: looks like it was Match reportJarrodM2012-03-15 16:21:18