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Foul Play for Firmino in the Premier League?
One of the many wonderful aspects of The Tomkins Times is that it acts as something of an ideas…
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Liverpool’s Front Three: Misfiring, Selfish or Better Than Last Season?
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 27 commentsThere’s a consensus developing that the Reds are in a bit of a slump: only three wins in nine games,…
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Is This Liverpool’s Best Ever Defence in the Premier League Era?
With less than a quarter of an hour to go against Cardiff City, it looked like Liverpool would notch…
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Same Teams, Same Fixtures, Very Different Outcomes: What’s Changed Since 2016/17?
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 6 commentsBy now you will have heard all the stats about the Reds’ best start to a season for years, coupled…
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Liverpool’s Hardest Start to a Season Ever – in the Latest Data Visualisation
Episode Two Please be aware that while the visualisations work on mobile devices, they obviously look better on a…
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Liverpool and Manchester City: Closer Together Than Last Season’s Table Suggests?
If a week is a long time in politics, then it can feel like an eternity in football. Just…
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Red Cards, Yellow Cards & Why Liverpool Don’t Get Penalties at Anfield
When you’ve been messing around with football statistics as long as I have, it’s rare to stumble across a…
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Knowing Your Enemy – the Stats Behind Liverpool’s Champions League Group C Opponents
Liverpool’s quest to go one better in the Champions League than they managed last season begins at Anfield on…
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Is The Reds’ Perfect Start to the Season Better Than Frasier’s “The Good Son”?
Throughout last season we ran a monthly round-up of post match radar charts, which illustrated how Liverpool had performed against…
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Around the World in xG Data: How Do Liverpool Compare Against 350 Teams Across 21 Leagues?
One of the biggest problems when trying to use, track and analyse expected goal models is the lack of…
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How Well Does Liverpool’s Pressing Work? Analysis With Some Surprises!
Understat is best known for being a good public source of expected goal data, but xG is not the…
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Liverpool Defending Set Pieces: Good, Lucky or Both?
Set piece goals are like buses. Or at least they were for Liverpool’s opponents in 2017/18. This is a…
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Some Frenchmen And A Dutchman – The Final Fekir Alternatives: Part 2
In part one of this article we narrowed down a huge sample of players on the Wyscout database to…
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In Search Of A Fekir Alternative – Part 1
Part One: There was a large buzz of excitement. Many – even in the local press core – claimed…
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Rounding Up The Reds’ Key Team Performance Stats
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 8 commentsWhile many will remember the 2017/18 season for the Champions League run to the final, and righty so, in the…
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The Premier League 2017-18 – How Did The Stats Stack Up?
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 31 commentsThe Premier League season closed a few weeks back … and the high emotions of the Champions League final…
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Comparing The Premier League To Europe, With European Transfer Price Index ©
As we all on TTT know, Paul and Graeme have done some fantastic work in their investigations into the…
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Rounding Up Liverpool’s Post-Match Radars: Including The Champions League Final
For a full explanation of how the radars are calculated, please see the opening article in the series. Want…
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Tactic Stats: How Liverpool Shape Up with a Back Three
This article uses data from Stratabet, which is different to the Opta stats which you will be familiar with. To…
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Why Liverpool Will Definitely Score In Rome
Well that was annoying, wasn’t it? Liverpool basically had two feet in the final when they were 5-0 up…
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Beyond the Scoreline: Rounding Up Liverpool’s Post-Match Radars: Week 33
Although the title suggests these articles are weekly, it actually indicates how far through the season we are at…
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Liverpool FC’s Expected Goals: Alright At The Back?
All data taken from understat.com. Statistics are for the Premier League only, and are correct as at 10th April…
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Post-Match Analysis: THREE-0 versus Manchester City (H)
Stick that in your Champions League pipe and smoke it. Extraordinary. From one to eleven. From one to fifty-five thousand…
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Klopp’s Current Liverpool: One of the Best Premier League Teams Since 2009?
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 21 commentsAs Manchester City sail off into the distance, winning the league title at a canter and seemingly on a…
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Comparing Player Radars – How Good Are The Reds’ Fearsome Threesome?
in Statistical Analysis, Subscribers Only / / 34 commentsRemember all of those consecutive wins in 2013/14 around this time of the season? Goals aplenty, and a front…
