Fantasy Stats

  Sorry that some of these posts are a little late this week. I thought I was going to be on the ball since I had a week off from work, but most of the past couple days have been lost to Diablo III and yard work. I completely forgot what day it was. But enough excuses. Round  1 is …

Here is the  Form chart for Round 2 and latest form breakdown for Home and Away games. These charts pickup on the form of the teams from the end of the 2013 season. The first chart displays how difficult the next 6 games will be for a team. Difficulty is ranked from 1 to 5 and an advantage is given to …

  Near the end of the 2013 MLS season, I came across some information about the ELO ranking system. Basically, there is a formula that is used to try to predict the winner of a match. Since soccer can end in a draw, I’m using a modified version of this formula that basically tries to predict the chance that a …

The title may be a bit long, but basically this means that I have updated the charts on the MLS Fantasy Resources page. What exactly has been changed well, keep reading after the break to find out. The title may be a bit long, but basically this means that I have updated the charts on the MLS Fantasy Resources page. …

Last month I posted some stats from the 2013 MLS season. Since then, I’ve done a little more work and I’m ready to talk what we can learn from this data. Specifically, I took a look to see which stats were most related to a player’s final total score. The idea was that by identifying the stats that contribute the most …

In my last post, I mentioned that I have been working on a special project for the 2014 MLS season, well this is part 1 of that project. As we all know,  during the playoffs, the MLS Fantasy Manager site removed the stats for the teams that were not longer playing. Now that the season is over, all of the …

Even though the Double Game has not been played yet, we can still take a look at the numbers from week 26. So, here’s the list as it stands right now.

Here are Week 24’s Defensive and Attacking numbers. Numbers collected from data created by Squawka.

Here’s the summary of Game Week 24’s defending and attacking numbers. A few changes to go over. Defense Even with all of the scoring that took place in Week 24, eleven teams are now defending better than the league average. Last week I mentioned that Sunderland and QPR were on the edge of the bubble of having significant better defensive …

A few changes to the graph this week, and a new name for the article. I hope it sums things up a little better. So, as always, the disclaimer: These numbers show how each team is doing, compared to the league average. Defense There is now a 50/50 split of teams that are above average and those that are below. …