Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Best stat of the lot. We are bottom of the league for percentage of expected goals that comes from open play.

Of course, they don't tell you that is because our expected goals from set pieces is enormous.

Take a meaningless stat and express it as a percentage of something unrelated. Then tell the league leaders they should be bottom of the league
Statistics for statistics' sake. I blame gamblers and fantasy football league players. And statisticians, of course.

All so they don't have to perform the tedious, tiresome task of actually watching the Beautiful Game. Not that that would help them, of course.