This is a topic I've visited a number of times on the blog, particularly when espousing its importance as the foundation to City's dominating home record since the start of the 2010/11 season. It...

I'll start with a question: Which one of Total Shots or Shots On Target has the stronger correlation with a team winning a football game? The reason for trying to answer this question is simple; a...

No stupendous claims will be made in this article, no tremendous revelations shall be revealed by the power of the word nor graph. Instead, this article shall be a fun read read and a read that...

In our Halfway Point series of posts we have already looked at both scoring % and save % and now we move on to what is a combination of the two: PDO. Its premise is thus: PDO = scoring % + save %....

Here is the original piece on injuries in the Premier league which has now spawned this halfway point article and I recommend giving that piece a quick scan. These are the recorded injuries for...

Firstly, a quick explanation of just what shots on target ratio is. It is the share of of the shots on target in a game. 5 shots on target a piece will result in a 50% share. 6-2 shots on target...

This post will focus on teams' ability to prevent the opposition from registering shots on target. In order to prevent the opposition from registering those shots on target teams use a variety of...

Inspired somewhat by this post over at nhlnumbers.com onn Individual Point Percentage (or IPP), and having taken a look at City's numbers at a couple of different stages this season I thought I'd...

We took a look at Scoring % in this earlier post so it is time to look at the opposite end of the pitch and Save %. Again, we know which teams concede the fewest goals but, unlike with Scoring %,...

The latest in our series of posts analysing the halfway point of the 2012/13 Premier League season looks at Scoring %. We know which teams are scoring the most goals (and only 14th place Fulham...