Football Statistics Project

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Football Statistics Project

Introduction

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I have chosen to base my project on football statistics because they

are both readily available and interesting enough for deep analysis.

As a starting point I decided to look at the generally accepted theory

of 'Home Advantage'.

Home advantage, or the tendency for the home team to do better than

they would away, could have several causes. It could be partly

psychological - the home team would almost always have the majority of

the crowd behind them, cheering them on. It could also be to do with

the condition of the pitch - Premiership teams sometimes find it hard

to play on muddy, waterlogged pitches of some lower-division teams.

Another factor is the attitudes of referees and officials. Because

they are intimidated by the home crowd they often give decisions in

favour of the home team, meaning teams may also have a worse

disciplinary record when playing away.

Hypotheses:

1. Teams have a worse disciplinary record away than at home

2. Better attended teams have a greater home advantage

3. More successful teams have a better disciplinary record

[IMAGE]Collecting Data

I found that football statistics were easy to find on the internet. I

obtained mine from two main sites:

http://soccer-stats.football365.com

http://www.bettingzone.co.uk

There is a very small risk that some of the data I collected could be

incorrect. However, I have found alternate sites for the Premiership

statistics (such as www.4thegame.com) which gave the same results. I

also think that a betting site must give accurate statistics because

they are such an important part of gambling

Using Software

I chose to input my data into Microsoft Excel because it makes it much

quicker and easier to manipulate the data.

Hypothesis 1 - Teams have a worse disciplinary record away than at

home

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Discipline 'points' system

On the internet I was able to find out the numbers of red and yellow

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