BBC Stats

[ATFC Seagull]

Apparently, Colchester had 53% of the possession tonight. Really??!

Apologies if someone has already posted this tidbit - whatever the word for that is. Oh yes, fixtures.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Does that count the time in which they held onto the ball whenever we had a free kick?

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Against Yeovil earlier in the season BBC tried to claim we had 81% possession.

BBC Sport - Football - Brighton 2-0 Yeovil

I wasn't at the game but wouldn't that amount to them kicking the ball back to us whenever they stumbled on possession? Shirley no game could be so one-sided.

 

[Marc]

thing is I highly doubt for (lower league games) there is a bloke with two stopwatches seeing how much time each team has with the ball. I would guess that the BBC report and others go on what the reporter sees...so therefore could be totally wrong, hence the Yeovil example above.

Also how many Shots on target last night? BBC reckons just 3 per side but my mate reckons we had 5!

 

[Nathan]

Away to peterbrough we only had 48%. They were down to 10 ten and didn't touch the ball for large spells of the game.

 

[Trufflehound]

thing is I highly doubt for (lower league games) there is a bloke with two stopwatches seeing how much time each team has with the ball.

A mate of mine does the online commentary for UEFA.com for all the Dutch teams' home Champions League matches (in other words, his job finishes before Xmas most years...).

He says there is literally a bloke sitting next to him with two team buttons in front of him, whose job it is to record possession by holding his finger on one or the other according to who has the ball. It's as basic as that. The computer does the rest.

 

[kevo]

Can anyone remember the 3 Colchester shots on target?!

 

[Marc]

A mate of mine does the online commentary for UEFA.com for all the Dutch teams' home Champions League matches (in other words, his job finishes before Xmas most years...).

He says there is literally a bloke sitting next to him with two team buttons in front of him, whose job it is to record possession by holding his finger on one or the other according to who has the ball. It's as basic as that. The computer does the rest.

yeah thats probably what they use in Prem and Champions League/UEFA matches etc, I just cant see it happening with us IMO

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Can anyone remember the 3 Colchester shots on target?!

Not specifically but do recall Casper having to make some saves, nothing dramatic but a couple he could have spilled back out into the 6 yard box

 

[Easy 10]

I'm highly dubious of those possession stats after that 81% vs Yeovil malarky, which was ridiculous (presumably the guy left the button on us while he went and got a burger or something). But 53% for Colchester last night wouldn't overly surprise me - they did have a fair amount of the ball in the 2nd half in particular, but without ever really hurting us.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

We did hit it long from a lot of goal kicks rather than trying to knock it about between the centre backs and goal keeper last night, so yeah 53% for Colchester wouldn't surprise me