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5 added minutes analysing football beliefs and misconceptions skip to content 5 added minutes analysing football beliefs and misconceptions home recommended books about the batting age curve 3 september 2016 an age of around 32 is reckoned to be the best for batsmen wrote s rajesh and shiva jayaraman for the cricket monthly last year but in the current decade older has definitely been better the records of misbah and sangakkara among others have certainly helped challenge the received wisdom that test batsmen peak in their early thirties however we shouldn t let the few get in the way of the many at what age does a typical batter peak read more 4 comments from cricket why james vince failed 17 august 2016 i ve been intruiged by james vince s short test career since stumbling upon this statistic a revealing stat on james vince that brgmarlow and i discovered scored 63 of first class runs in 4s 6s test top order average is 51 omar chaudhuri omarchaudhuri july 19 2016 in the replies to that tweet gwilym lockwood provided some great insight on boundary runs and matt roller wrote some more here read more 2 comments from cricket a question of scheduling 2 october 2015 stoke away arsenal away man united away everton away tottenham away chelsea away man city away newcastle away liverpool s opening run of away games in 2015 16 read like a death wish for brendan rodgers team and indeed his own fortunes yet on the flip side their home games in the same period promised a healthy return of points bournemouth west ham norwich aston villa southampton crystal palace swansea west brom this got 5 added minutes thinking what s preferable a collection of hard i e vs good opposition away games with easy i e vs weak opposition home games or a collection of hard home games with easy away games read more 5 comments from analytics premier league does hosting the world cup leave a legacy 9 july 2015 countries usual bid to host major sporting events on two premises 1 that the event will boost the economy and 2 that it will leave a sporting legacy the first premise is not supported by any reputable research in the case of the world cup fifa tends to gobble up most of the tournament s benefits but what of leaving a legacy in the case of football do national teams get better after hosting a world cup read more 3 comments from internationals world football won t somebody please think of the coefficient 17 may 2015 the premier league is sleepwalking into a pr nightmare by the 2017 18 season the self styled best league in the world could have just three teams playing in the champions league this is based upon a very simple projection of performance in uefa competitions for the coming seasons a more favourable but still simple projection has the premier league losing its spot a season later read more 4 comments from champions league english football premier league the greatest champions league semi final line up of all time 4 may 2015 for the last few years the champions league quarter final draw has kept apart the competition s biggest names helping set up a series of remarkable semi final lineups the 2014 15 draw and subsequent progression of barcelona real madrid bayern munich and juventus was no different indeed the first three teams on the list have stepped up another level in the last 9 months creating a clear gulf between themselves and the remaining teams in europe this got 5 added minutes asking is this the greatest champions league semi final line up in history read more 3 comments from champions league four years in football analytics 24 january 2015 four years ago this week sitting on the third floor of my university s library i launched 5 added minutes for a couple of months the blog was simply a place to express frustrations at media clichés and received wisdom in football but it quickly evolved into a medium for me to use data and analytics to challenge the conversations that were taking place in press conferences expert columns and television analyses i wasn t the first to join this revolution not my word but simon kuper s in a june 2011 financial times piece one of the first mainstream articles to take a view on the impact of statistics on professional football and since 2011 there have been many more who have taken an interest and even a lead in the development of football analytics but when a wordpress notification reminded me that it had been four years since the creation of my blog i felt obliged to reflect on the journey of both amateurs and professionals in this industry how far have we come and has some of the promise of the kuper article materialised into results read more 6 comments from analytics the ballon d or numbers game messi vs ronaldo part ii 23 january 2015 tags ballon d or cristiano ronaldo lionel messi in the previous post we established that there is a distinct europe americas divide when it comes to ronaldo messi preferences according to ballon d or voting choices this is also noticeable when breaking down the voting by voter type captains coaches and media below read more 1 comment from world football the ballon d or numbers game messi vs ronaldo part i 16 january 2015 tags ballon d or cristiano ronaldo lionel messi 5 added minutes doesn t care too much for messi vs ronaldo debates but it does care for data and insights into behaviour of which the ballon d or voting system provides lots of each country has three voters the national captain national coach and member of the media who provide three votes worth 5 3 and 1 point towards the best player in the world that year in the four awards since 2011 held in january 2012 to celebrate the achievements of the previous year messi and ronaldo have shared 60 of the points on offer from a maximum possible of 89 with messi edging out his rival with 32 of the points but in this era of shared dominance which countries have preferred the argentine and which have opted against him the voting patterns of three individuals may not reflect the views of an entire country but they provide a curious and sometimes amusing insight into certain national preferences read more 1 comment from world football are some referees disproportionately biased towards home teams 3 january 2015 no football fan ever believes the referee is on their side most however will accept that officials are subconsciously swayed by home support indeed the authors of scorecasting believe almost all of home field advantage can be explained by involuntary refereeing biases but are some premier league referees more susceptible to these biases than others read more 1 comment from english football premier league older entries interact like 5 added minutes on facebook recent posts the batting age curve why james vince failed a question of scheduling does hosting the world cup leave a legacy won t somebody please think of the coefficient 5 added minutes on twitter tweets by omarchaudhuri search 5 added minutes archives september 2016 august 2016 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