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European Under-21 Championships: Relative Age Effect 17 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
The relative age effect is a widely-acknowledged phenomenon in sport; whereby participants born soon after an age cut-off date are disproportionately represented compared to those born nearly 12 month...
European Under-21 Championships: Senior Caps 17 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
The European Under-21 Championships is billed as a competition designed to give the stars of the future an opportunity represent their national team in front of a significant audience. But how good ar...
Certainties and crapshoots: the top 6 in England’s top divisions 9 Jul 2013 | 11:47 pm
The absurd unpredictability of the Championship last season can be summarised by the difference between 6th and 22nd; the play offs and relegation. Just 14 points separated these teams – 0.30 points p...
Does Sachin Tendulkar exhibit form? 8 Jun 2013 | 05:49 pm
If there’s a list of phrases and terms used universally across all sports, it would probably feature ‘form’. Always discussed but never formally defined, it’s often a starting point for debate on a ra...
How strong are Premier League teams? 4 Jun 2013 | 02:23 am
The Premier League often markets itself as the world’s strongest league, and certainly the Champions League performance of its elite teams between 2005 and 2012 testifies to that. The fantastic Club E...
What the Premier League looks like 1 Jun 2013 | 10:36 pm
The Premier League’s final standings for the 2012-13 season is notable for the division between the top seven and the rest. West Bromwich Albion finished 13 points above relegated Wigan in 18th, ten p...
Extra Time and the Away Goals Rule 12 Mar 2013 | 11:06 pm
I recently questioned the relevance of the away goals rule in normal time, and received a few responses that suggested the rule was particularly unfair in extra time as it gave the visiting team an ex...
Not just a tiebreaker: what goal difference tells us 7 Jan 2013 | 06:08 pm
It’s the second-to-last column on every league table, but goal difference is a statistic rarely discussed in football. In the short term it can be a vital tiebreaker, but in the long term it is one of...
Part II: The January Transfer Window is Here – So Sit Back and Relax 3 Jan 2013 | 08:05 pm
This post is by Blake Wooster, Business Development Director at Prozone Sports, with support from Prozone Sports’ and 5 Added Minutes’ Omar Chaudhuri. Blake is one of football’s foremost experts in th...
Part I: The January Transfer Window is Here – So Sit Back and Relax 2 Jan 2013 | 07:25 pm
This post is by Blake Wooster, Business Development Director at Prozone Sports. Blake is one of football’s foremost experts in the area of performance analysis, talent identification, player developme...
