[Football] Most nonsensical football stat you have heard

[The Wookiee]

In the Tottenham v Leeds game today I heard that if all games this season had finished at halftime- Leeds would be bottom of the table - WTF

 

[The Optimist]

A convoluted way of saying Leeds play better in the 2nd half than the 1st

 

[Comrade Sam]

And that if Trossard hadn't made a flippant comment in an interview 6 months ago, 80% of Brighton transfer rumours wouldn't exist.

 

[Stato]

And had all games stopped before the first half, it would be back to Wolves again.

 

[Sirnormangall]

A convoluted way of saying Leeds play better in the 2nd half than the 1st

Or, strangely, Leeds opposition play badly in the second half.

 

[Rookie]

Not sure if it’s a stat as such but the predicted win percentage that pops up during the game as part of the foreign broadcasts. Absolutely pointless

 

[raymondo]

'Team X hasn't beaten Team Y for 35 years!!!!'.... then we find out they were only in the same division for two of those years

 

[Bodian]

Nice juxtaposition

 

[Leekbrookgull]

and here are the half time results!

 

[nickbrighton]

Team "x" have never won on a tuesday night when they have played a league game in London in October--

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

And had all games stopped before the first half, it would be back to Wolves again.

And Arse at the top

 

[Acker79]

MotD had one:

No team in history (until Arsenal this season) has been guaranteed to be top of the table at christmas as early as the middle of November.

 

[super-seagulls]

'Team X hasn't beaten Team Y for 35 years!!!!'.... then we find out they were only in the same division for two of those years

There was one on Twitter. We have never beaten Villa at home for 42 years since 1980!

We have played them 7 times and drawn 4.

 

[bhafc99]

Not sure if it’s a stat as such but the predicted win percentage that pops up during the game as part of the foreign broadcasts. Absolutely pointless

Especially when it flashes up in the first few minutes of the game.

 

[dazzer6666]

74% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway

 

[The Wizard]

Personally I think the much rolled out xG stuff is total bollocks

 

[nickbrighton]

Not a stat but a phrase that is rolled out all the time by comentators= Team X are Winning/loosing at half time, or at any point really. They simply arent- they are leading or behind- \they dont seem to understand the difference between winning and being ahead. A team may go on and with hindsighet were winning, but we certainly werent losing at Wolves even though we bent behind

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

Eric Dier x amount of England caps...

(The first bit not the x )

 

[KZNSeagull]

...

 

[Simster]

This stat off an Everton site is HILARIO:

Jordan Pickford has more assists (1) than Demarai Gray, Anthony Gordon and Dwight McNeil (zero) put together.

Lolz.