Yet he featured for England at all levels apart from senior (obviously), and was a terrible player. Buckley has not featured for England but is heralded by some as the next Messi. Love your new avatar btw.

Captain too

then ban me - my opinions are not welcome here.

nope, thats the missus

Your stuff, you make it sound like you invented data. As you are.

In other words, you have not had time to find the data, you want, to make your point.

Not sure why bans would be warented here tbh. Go for it, i wont be returning.

Main reason is because Lowe is a perfect example of data not being as perfect as you think it is.

Sigh, because you base players almost solely on data.... Jl secured a solid career off of stats. Allaydyce (were you born yet?) even said he was always top of the opta stats.

Not now it wouldn't - but JL made a career out of his opta stats.This is the problem with data, we're now just creating athletes, not footballers.

We won more when Buckley played but lost more when AA played. Well, there's your answer.

Buckley was OK, thats it. People using stats to show he was more than ok, when said stats show our better players as NOT ok, give it a rest.

Im fully aware of SA bringing the sports science here but thanks for reminding me of my 40th birthday many years ago. My point is that these guys (kids in their 20s) are using stats to defend one player but not to attack another. How is it that difficult to understand? Buckley is great but AA sucks - ok.

They were using it to defend Buckley. Its as a simple as it gets. We win more when Buckley plays - that is what was said. I suggest you read back.

So, we should just play Bell, Buckley and Bennett every match? Promotion nailed on next season! Have you answered why this apparent plus for Buckley is not a negative for our best player this season? Don't see many teams around around OUR NET POISITIVE superstar, yet the AA who is negative is attracting quite the interest. Point is, stop using stats to defend players if you not going to use the same stats fro all other team players. Buckley, i hope he does well but these data nerds are painting him out to be the next Lampard.

Good players get found - Kante would have been found without data. So, he came across Kante whole scouting somebody else - he caught his eye, then checked his stats etc. Sounds like without eyes he might not have come back to watch him play again, not because of the data. I sometimes wonder how the game ever survived before data existed. I have accepted many times that data has a role to play - I have never dismissed its use. I am just pointing to this example of using stats to defend a player while the same stats show AA to be poor and the likes of Amari Bell as world beaters.

So it would seem.

We're England,we always choke when we play anyone half decent.

Deary me, the bolded quote even says 'suggest', it didn't say anyone said it. What do they teach kids these days?

The point is - stats can be construed in either direction. You are telling us that Buckly has a positive blah blah but in the same table AA has a negative. Yet AA fired 25+ goals and is prbably why we're not relegated. Yet, your stats suggest we should drop him and play Buckley - its a load of bollocks tbh.

These data nerds tie themselves in knots - the data they are using to defend a player on the FRINGES of the squad, shows that our BEST player is shite. Couldnt make it up.

lets drop arma on the basis of that table.

Pointless table tbh - we lost because of the manager, nothing to do with who plays and where. You cannot judge players on that basis. Oh, we won when JB played played slightly more than we did when he didnt - so why is Armstrong at the bottom?

edit: sorry caps

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