In 2008/09, having found myself frustrated with the lack of information relating to how goals are scored – and specifically, who contributed to the creation beyond the final two touches – I came up with the concept of Goal Involvement, which looked beyond the simple assist; going back to the point in a move when [...]
Goal Involvement is the method I devised to rate and rank contribution to goals that go beyond the final finish and the standard assist. I’ve been using it for a couple of seasons now, and this is the full set of results from the past campaign.
For the last two seasons I have been monitoring ‘Goal Involvement’, which looks at who played a part in the creation and scoring of a goal (going beyond the assist and goalscorer). It’s a handy way of seeing which players contribute in less obvious ways (such as winning the ball that leads to a goal), and seeing which areas of the pitch are the most fruitful.
This is a quick update on a previous article which originally appeared on my old blog. Since Sunday I’ve been asked by a lot of people what David N’Gog’s goal record is for Liverpool, based on minutes on the pitch. Last season, excluding the Carling Cup, he played 452 minutes. In that time he scored [...]
It might have been asking for too much for the Reds to break a second goalscoring Champions League record within a couple of years: the first, beating Besiktas 8-0, and the second would have been 22 consecutive scoring games. For a ‘boring, cautious, negative’ side, that would have made pundits’ heads explode. It also brings [...]
