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Why is that an anomaly? We played a full strength and Haji Wright played in the same game but didn’t score. It’s also offset by the Wolves and Man U games too. Even so, if you discount those goals and Haji’s penalty goals, Simms scored more than Haji from open play. It’s a straight comparison...

You’re right when it comes to small sample sizes. After a season or two worth of data, I don’t think it is.

Brum, it’s too hard to judge because of his illness. They probably wouldn’t have got relegated. As for Sunderland, they had a year in the wilderness but the new manager has done well with the same group of players (more or less). Looking at WBA’s team, they were always in a false position...

Why just April? Does it have something to do with the fact he scored 5 goal in March and 4 goals in Jan through Feb… More importantly, how does Simms MPG compare to BTA and Bassette? They’re your alternatives for the rest of the season so best to use them as a baseline. I’ve used Simms total...

It’s just a really odd timeframe to use.

I ask because no one knows how you’ve come up with that figure. I’ll show my working out: Total minutes played: 5501 Total goals scored: 26 MPG: 211.57 You’ve discounted 2 goals against Man U and Bristol City for no good reason. If you want to rate a player by their goal scoring, there’s no...

It is because you’re manipulating the numbers and you know it. Despite all of what you, Grendel and anyone else, in all competitions, Simms scores a goal per 212 minutes since he’s joined us. Divide the total number of minutes he’s played for us and the goals and you’ll get the exact same...

How many minutes is that out of curiosity? In that select timeframe, he’s had many sub appearances less than 10 minutes.

He did last season. Unless goals in the quarter and semi finals of FA Cup no longer count now? Posters like you and Grendel have consistently use the argument of games ‘x’ player has scored in. The point here was to demonstrate that the top scorers in the league will score in a surprising...

What is more disingenuous, using a sample of a players entire career at a club or one timeframe that you’ve decided on? It’s arbitrary to airbrush cup goals too but it’s clearly because it’s a lot more convenient for you. It’s either disingenuous or misleading, take your pick. When you take...

We’ll win this game. Yesterday was a boot up the arse to get the management thinking about ways to break down the low block. My team: Wilson MVE Lati Kitching JDS Sheaf Grimes Rudoni Sakamoto Simms Wright If Thomas is fit, he needs to go back in the team for Lati. I’d like to see Paterson get...

Sargent will not be a championship player next season. If we got promoted I’d love to sign him.

… Our ITKs seem to think BTA is most likely being sent to the departure lounge before Simms.

He played a total of 360 minutes, so yes he would top the charts with 3 goals. In the same way that Ponticelli probably had a better MPG than McNulty back in L2. Haji (5,300) and Simms (5,501) have played more or less the same amount of minutes for us so the comparison is proportionate and fair.

You said GPM which I understood the question to be ‘Goals Per Match’ given the context of your post. Did you mean MPG? If so, I’ll answer accordingly. I believe Haji shades Simms on MPG even if you exclude the penalties. I will always default to minutes per goal as the most reliable metric to...

Szmodics scored in 21 games out of 44. Likewise, Gyokeres in 22/23 scored in 18 league games out of 49 league games, which is under 40%. If you took out penalties, Gyokeres only scored an open play goal in 15 games that season. He also scored a large % of his goals against teams in the bottom...

If we want to make all our players look bad, Haji Wright has only scored in 22 league games, out of 69 appearances. 20 games if you exclude penalty goals. Even the top scorers in the league have a strike rate less than 50% this season. Piroe has 19 in 44 (scored in 14 games of those), and Sainz...

In his career before he came to Cov, he consistently had a strike rate of 1 in 3. The use of appearances is heavily misleading because the headline is ‘6 in 40’ this season but you take the minutes he’s actually played, it equates to 25.5 games. In his whole Cov career, he’s played 5,501...

I’d be interested in the extent of his injury to be honest. The system we play now under Lampard is similar to the one under Robins where he was successful. We do sometimes struggle creating chances against the low block and there’s been plenty of occasions this season where we come v passive...

I want all of our players to do well and don’t like when there’s a pile on with certain players.