Well this chart puts Villa and Palace at the same level so I can’t take it seriously
IronBlowers on
We are 5 games in and it’s mental to already see people so pessimistic. We have played 3 out of the top 6 last season. We got 4 points from games at Palace and Fulham. Bournemouth were favorites to get relegated until about Dec last season and once their manager clicked, they were one of the best teams on form in 2024. Same with Chelsea last year. They were out of the top 10 for the majority of the season and finished 6th in the end.
Whulad on
But we’ve looked crap in nearly all of them. You can also argue that teams that have played us are likely to be higher because we’re rubbish.
Yesterday was an awful shitshow, it’s not about the result it’s how abject we were with a starting line up many on here have been crying out for.
UnusualDifference748 on
We are considered easier than Everton according to this chart
LariatWest on
I do agree with the sentiment that we’ve had a rough start with our fixture difficulty at home, and there’s no reason to panic yet. I would like to see more indication of tactical cohesion though, as I’m just not seeing it click in the “connective tissue” yet.
I also find it hard to trust these graphics that scale everything the way they do here; the color coding is fine, but the 1-5 system often leads to people using those numbers in ways that don’t work/make sense. For example, if you start taking averages of FDR across the first 5 games, then maybe we do have the hardest start. However, that would imply a 4-rated match is twice as difficult as a 2-rated match, or that a grey 3 is *three times* as hard as a green 1. These are simply not true.
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Well this chart puts Villa and Palace at the same level so I can’t take it seriously
We are 5 games in and it’s mental to already see people so pessimistic. We have played 3 out of the top 6 last season. We got 4 points from games at Palace and Fulham. Bournemouth were favorites to get relegated until about Dec last season and once their manager clicked, they were one of the best teams on form in 2024. Same with Chelsea last year. They were out of the top 10 for the majority of the season and finished 6th in the end.
But we’ve looked crap in nearly all of them. You can also argue that teams that have played us are likely to be higher because we’re rubbish.
Yesterday was an awful shitshow, it’s not about the result it’s how abject we were with a starting line up many on here have been crying out for.
We are considered easier than Everton according to this chart
I do agree with the sentiment that we’ve had a rough start with our fixture difficulty at home, and there’s no reason to panic yet. I would like to see more indication of tactical cohesion though, as I’m just not seeing it click in the “connective tissue” yet.
I also find it hard to trust these graphics that scale everything the way they do here; the color coding is fine, but the 1-5 system often leads to people using those numbers in ways that don’t work/make sense. For example, if you start taking averages of FDR across the first 5 games, then maybe we do have the hardest start. However, that would imply a 4-rated match is twice as difficult as a 2-rated match, or that a grey 3 is *three times* as hard as a green 1. These are simply not true.