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[Hixx]

That French scouting...

He's Senegalese and came from Germany...

 

[Keio]

Xavi put him through, great pass and clinical finish. Messi would've lobbed the keeper though. #newcelona

 

[Fry]

He's Senegalese and came from Germany...

A match made in France!

 

[speedpop]

Cisse is a god. He started a bit slow on my FM2012 restart, but for some reason he started scoring 2 goals a match and assisting like a mofo.

 

[LegoArmo]

He probably speaks French though, that probably helps with so many other speakers at the club.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Cisse is a god. He started a bit slow on my FM2012 restart, but for some reason he started scoring 2 goals a match and assisting like a mofo.

More impressively he's doing that in real life too.

 

[speedpop]

Yeah he does. If a player doesn't speak English, they likely speak French

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Yeah he does. If a player doesn't speak English, they likely speak French

He is from Senegal.

 

[sazabirules]

My mistake. He has played more years in France than Germany.

 

[RaGe_pt]

Cisse is on fire! Amazing player!

 

[Maklershed]

Pape Cisse - he scores when he wants

 

[LegoArmo]

Ba looked a wee bit jealous that he didn't pass to him, haha.

 

[thaOwner]

He is from Senegal.

So ? Like many of the other African countries. Its either English or French and then the local dialect. I speak another language along with English.

EDIT: Also all African countries that were colonized picked up their colonial 'masters' language when they left.

 

[Willkiller]

Ba looked a wee bit jealous that he didn't pass to him, haha.

I think Ba's probably a bit jealous of Cisse anyway, talk about stealing someones thunder haha!

 

[Hixx]

It's astonishing how many times Swansea play themselves into trouble.

Pressure from the front, reap the rewards.

 

[Willkiller]

"Tell me ma I won't be home for tea, we're going to Italy"

Hahaha!

 

[Joel Was Right]

 

[sazabirules]

I'm playing as Swansea in FM12 right now and Britton is my best player.

 

[Yurt]

I love you Meus, but that's meaningless. Especially if you count defenders.

edit:..and Nasri.

 

[RaGe_pt]

Those statistics are awesome for Britton though he passes a lot less than Xavi. Anyway, those are great for him.

 

[Inversive]

Britton just plays extremely safe and short passes. I wouldn't read too much into those stats.

 

[Fry]

Britton just plays extremely safe and short passes. I wouldn't read too much into those stats.

May be true, but he still deserves some credit. He's not the only one to play safe and short passes, but is the only one above Xavi.

 

[Joel Was Right]

 

[confuziz]

erm, Barca?

 

[Hixx]

This is tedious as fuck.

 

[Inversive]

May be true, but he still deserves some credit. He's not the only one to play safe and short passes, but is the only one above Xavi.

Yeah, for sure. He is a very tidy and probably Swanseas key player. He keeps them ticking over.

 

[Joel Was Right]

erm, Barca?

Lol woops. Will update

 

[Willkiller]

erm, Barca?

They're purple.

 

[dschalter]

the differences are so small that it's sort of pointless to have that much vertical space on the graph.

 

[Yurt]

https://img.skitch.com/20120406-jmac5s2n4ca1t6hk2msyyiptf1.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

Our pass completion is [I]slightly[/I] better than Roma and Milan IIRC.

edit: Yes, according to Whoscored.

 

[Inversive]

There's no United on that graph either, pretty sure they would be above Chelsea for example.

 

[dschalter]

Our pass completion is slightly better than Roma and Milan IIRC.

it's only comparing big clubs.

Spoiler

having swansea there sort of ruins this joke

 

[pappe]

Lol woops. Will update

Curious to see where United are on that graph. Dortmund and Newcelona as well.

 

[Joel Was Right]

 

[The Friendly Monster]

the differences are so small that it's sort of pointless to have that much vertical space on the graph.

Not at all, Britton has around 25% fewer misses than Busquets as a percentage.

 

[Yurt]

it's only comparing big clubs.

Spoiler

having swansea there sort of ruins this joke

And City

 

[dschalter]

Not at all, Britton has around 25% fewer misses than Busquets as a percentage.

using percentages at that scale is misleading when talking about this kind of stat. you could say that someone with a 99% pass completion rate has "100% fewer misses as a percentage" than someone with a 98% completion rate when the actual difference is trivial. A 1.5% difference in passing accuracy is not very significant.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

using percentages at that scale is misleading when talking about this kind of stat. you could say that someone with a 99% pass completion rate has "100% fewer misses as a percentage" than someone with a 98% completion rate when the actual difference is trivial.

It's not at all trivial, there is a massive difference between 98% and 99%. It's a factor of two in how many missed passes.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Curious to see where United are on that graph. Dortmund and Newcelona as well.

Opta tweeted after Mondays game that before Scholes came back we had the 6th highest passing % in the league at about 80%.

Since Scholes has returned United have the top passing % in the league at about 87%.

 

[Joel Was Right]

Swanselona have 80% possession this first half.

It sucks for them a few seconds of brilliance from Newcastle have made that irrelevant

 

[Hixx]

80% possession. One decent attempt apart from a timid free kick.

 

[Willkiller]

Crazy possession stats! Not that I care, great half-time result. Hope we can hold out, can't see us not conceding though.

 

[Ushojax]

80% possession. One decent attempt apart from a timid free kick.

Yep, it's obvious that these are mostly Championship players. They don't have the confidence/skill to play any kind of risky forward pass, nor do they want to turn with the ball. It's all backwards or sideways and it gives the opposition all the time in the world to get into position. That's OK if it's 0-0, but at 0-1 it's utterly useless. Only Sigurdsson is showing any kind of attacking quality.

 

[dschalter]

It's not at all trivial, there is a massive difference between 98% and 99%. It's a factor of two in how many missed passes.

but in practical terms the difference is not very important. this is a pretty common error, attributing excessive significance to percentage changes in very small quantities. in terms of the actual number of missed passes, there's no difference between 98% and 99% and, say, 57% and 58%, yet they way you are looking at it there's a huge difference between the former and a trivial one for the latter.

 

[Joel Was Right]

That reminds me..what happened to Lee Trundle? He scored a ridiculously silky goal the other week

 

[Fry]

Good news for everyone, Cassano is back in the Milan squad.

 

[dc89]

Nani's first one vs City. Community Shield. If you'll accept it.

Sliced to fucking pieces. So godlike.

The brilliant thing about that game and the attacking play we saw from United is they've not been able to replicate it all season.

It's like when they scored and played like that it rubbed off on City. City played like that until 1-6 day and since then City lost it!

Excuse me Yurt, City is a massive club.

/parody.

 

[Awesome Animals]

Today's practice.

http://i.imgur.com/qe6Yu.jpg[img]

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Are you pulling these images from the RM site? I love your daily RM Training Dump :D

[quote="Maklershed, post: 36706094"]Pape Cisse - he scores when he wants[/QUOTE]

He gets it!!

[quote="dschalter, post: 36706538"]the differences are so small that it's sort of pointless to have that much vertical space on the graph.[/QUOTE]

lol, I love the graph critiquing!

 

[immy]

Noooo West Ham

 

[The Friendly Monster]

but in practical terms the difference is not very important. this is a pretty common error, attributing excessive significance to percentage changes in very small quantities. in terms of the actual number of missed passes, there's no difference between 98% and 99% and, say, 57% and 58%, yet they way you are looking at it there's a huge difference between the former and a trivial one for the latter.

In terms of how impressive the statistic is rather than the value to the team then certainly 98 to 99 is a far bigger difference than 57 to 58.