Recent content by CPFCSaturn

Canvot is right-footed - when Lacroix got injured yesterday, Canvot played on the right and Riad (left-footed) on the left. Despite that, like Guehi Canvot is good at opening up his body to be able to find forward passes on his right foot, despite being on the left of the pitch. He looks a...

Analysing millions of data points per match, along with many other companies doing the same. Bearing in mind your original argument was essentially that I am ‘overstating the scale of how this data is collected’, I don’t get the resistance to just acknowledging that you had underestimated the...

Lazy, lazy point.

Yes, sometimes that does happen, but it's not remotely enough of a consideration to disregard the headline 'tackles won' number. I think you're massively underestimating how big an industry analytics is in football - AI allows them to analyse enormous volumes of data very quickly. A single...

I completely agree with this, and I think the low level shite that broadcasters like Sky put out to try and keep up with analytics are a huge factor as to why so many fans are so skeptical or resistant to the area. As you highlight, they produce largely meaningless numbers, over absolutely...

But it was never about a ‘whole story’ - the suggestion was that Kamada can’t/won’t tackle and that was disproved quite simply by a tackle count. Of course stats don’t tell the whole story - I’m not aware of anyone who has claimed they do. But in a discussion about whether a player makes a lot...

But that is exactly what happens in the modern game - and it’s not 3 people, it’s teams of analysts from all over the planet. I think many of the assessments of ‘stats’ on this thread are decades out of date - what you describe above in terms of ‘who won the ball back to start the attack’ and...

Assists are a terrible metric - completely agree.

In a conversation about Kamada’s tackling proficiency, I don’t think you can consider ‘tackles made’ a meaningless stat… that seems a rather weak argument. As I said above, people tend to disapprove of stats when the stats challenge their pre-held views - accepting you were wrong about...

I think when you’re confronted with objective data that contradicts a view you hold, you can either absorb it and reflect on your view, or you can just tie yourself in knots insisting that the data must be wrong or flawed. The idea that ‘courage required’ should be considered when simply...

The stats are from Opta ffs - it’s not a matter of opinion.

I read recently that Chelsea offered Jesse Derry £10k a week in wages to tempt him over - he'd never kicked a ball professionally at that point, and already onto a salary of half a million a year aged 18. It's unfathomable really.

Yes, footballer's have a great life - that's certainly not limited to Kamada.

Tackles per 90 in the PL this season: Kamada - 1.69 Hughes - 0.99

Kamada was a fairly common goalscorer for Frankfurt (16 goals in all comps in 22/23 season!) and he averages about 1 in 4 for Japan. Hughes has never really scored goals anywhere.