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I was thinking about doing this myself. Although stats are less important in soccer than almost any other sport, I still think they can be fun and are can give a good balance and perspective.

I'll start with one. A study of the key players/top contributors of each of the top 4 teams since 2004/2005 - About 4.5 seasons

Name - Goals - Assists - Total Output (My made up stat) - Percentage of goals involved in

Lampard - 90 goals, 64 assists - 154 points - 48.6%
Gerrard - 81 goals, 50 assists - 131 points - 47.6%
Fabregas - 27 goals, 55 assists - 82 points - 24.8%
Cristiano - 99 goals, 45 assists - 144 points - 43.1%

Obviously these are going to be skewed towards Lamps and Gerrard because Fabregas and Cristiano were pretty young in those seasons, but I chose the earliest season when they all were playing regularly. Most of Cristiano's goals and Fabregas' assists have come in the last two and a half seasons.

Another interesting note, Cristiano's 42 goal year he had 8 assists as compared to 26 and 20 the year before. So while he scored a lot that year, his overall input was not much higher. Would be interesting to see if the goal production of the players around him dropped, but since I'm not a Man U fan I'm not going to research this any further

Last 2.5 years coming later. I imagine Ronaldo and Fabregas will play a much bigger role in this one.

 

Thanks I feel a little better about relegation though not so good about making the UEFA Cup

If you get bored how are we in those cylces copared to Arse, Villa, West Ham and Everton.

First approproate new thread title in ages, rep for you

 

hey lobo

meant to catch up with ye the other day

but I know you post the "significant goals" stats and just wanted to add that Deco did score the winner against Wigan (A) and was not on that list for some reason.

 

And now, study of the key players/top contributors of each of the top 4 teams since 2006/2007 - About 2.5 seasons

Name - Goals - Assists - Total Output (My made up stat) - Percentage of goals involved in

Lampard - 51 goals, 38 assists - 89 points - 51.5%
Gerrard - 46 goals, 34 assists - 80 points - 48.2%
Fabregas - 18 goals, 45 assists - 63 points - 36.0%
Cristiano - 82 goals, 35 assists - 117 points - 57.4%

One quick note is that Fabregas has been out much of this season so in both posts his contribution percentage is lower than it probably would be (but he was not having a very good season before injured any way).

Man Utd have become much more reliant on Cristiano (57.4% vs. 26.2%) in the last 2.5 years vs. the 2 years before that. Fabregas' contributions have seen a similair increase to Ronaldo's, while Lampard and Gerrard have been about the same (albiet with a slight rise).

So yes, Man U are very dependent on Cristiano, but tbf not much more than we are on Frank, or Liverpool and Gerrard, as far as offensive output is concerned.

 

I dunno, 82 goals is pretty nuts. IMO, Cristiano is far far more vital to United than Lamps is to us (not belittling Lamps at all, he's obviously HUGE for us, but I think we'd at least survive without him, United were dead without Cronaldo earlier in the season).

 

Hey Fanboy I got the list from Chelsea TV and they did not list any of the players with one and there are a few they said but in one of the threads I did say I thought Deco had one...

 

I think he is more vital to United as far as output is concerned for sure, but not by as much as I expected when I started. And yes Man U struggled without Cristiano, but I cringe to think where we would be without Lamps.

Mikel-Deco-Ballack Midfield anyone, with Beletti as the main back-up? Ouch.

 

Ehhh now that you mention it...............

 

80% of the time, we suck, all the time.


/hopes somebody gets it

 

I doooooooooooo

 

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Gerrard has scored 47 goals in that time period.

Are you going to do strikers as well?

 

Hm. My source maybe wasn't the most accurate (or maybe up to date?), but it was the quickest way I knew to look something up. I'll try somewhere else next time.

Strikers would be interesting given their seemingly less consistent nature. I'll look into it next weekend maybe.

 

Little tidbit on Scolari

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11662_4908253,00.html

 

My fantasy team thanks him...

While his change in role resulted in a slight drop in creating goal scoring opportunities it was not significant. The main factor behind his drop in assists was Man Utd moving away from a traditional striker. He went from creating for the likes of Van Nistelrooy, Saha, Solskjaer and Larsson to creating for Rooney and Tevez. The latter duo are scorers of great goals as opposed to being great goal scorers (more so in the case of Rooney). Both also go through scoring streaks as opposed to being consistent. It will be interesting to see what impact Ronaldo's change in role this season and the inclusion of Berbatov will do to his overall output.

We had serious problems in central midfield earlier in the season in addition to trying to integrate Berbatov into the attack. To only consider Ronaldo's absence is to take a simplistic view of the situation.

 

50% of all people have below average intelligence.

If this fact confuses you then you are in that 50%.

 

Chelsea stat of the week:

Nicolas Anelka is tied for 1st place in the Premier League scoring charts with 15 goals.

 

95% of all statistics are made up on the spot

 

http://www.setanta.com//uk/Articles/Football/2009/04/16/Opta-on-Cech/gnid-48802/