[Albion] Top data analytics firm predicts Albion will finish 8th in 2021-22....

[dadams2k11]

I'd be interested in how they arrived at that conclusion with Palace's squad...

It's the squad they finished last season with.

 

[Elbow750]

Maybe they know something about incoming signings we don't. There is a certain free agent still kicking around in Spain, come on Tony get the wallet out, we've even got the song:-

Who's that man from Argentina, who's that man we all adore.

Lionel is his name and he scores ten goals a game

and we don't need Murray/Welbeck/ Maupay/ Connelly anymore...

Just have to persuade Mac Allister to give up the number 10 shirt..

 

[pocketseagull]

What a pile of absolute garbage. If we make it to 15th then we’ve done very well, if we make it to 14th then we’ve had an outstanding season. There is no chance we’ll finish higher than that on our budget.

Bloom, Barber, Potter and Ashworth disagree, let's hope they're right!

 

[Motogull]

Utter shite.

 

[saafend_seagull]

What utter nonsense. If it was a computer game then fair enough.


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[amexer]

Rubbish unless anybody can convince me how with basically same squad we are better than last season

 

[Sea Cider]

Even ignoring xg, it is interesting to look at actual goal difference for last season. We would have finished comfortably 11th (up 4) in a gd table, the only other team who would move significantly from their actual placing would have been Spurs (also up 4). Suggests we are small margins away from being much better!

 

[Gabbafella]

The bit I'm most interested in is who we'll take 0.7pts off.

 

[GT49er]

0.2% chance of top 4?

That fact that you’re alive today shows you’ve already beaten the odds of quadrillions to 1, so why be scared of a measly 0.2%.

1.5%, not 2.

The 2% is for relegation.

 

[Jim in the West]

Rubbish unless anybody can convince me how with basically same squad we are better than last season

If you simply extrapolate the second half of last season (19 games, 24 points) you get to 48 points for the season. It's not unreasonable to assume we continue in the same vein....and maybe get a little of the luck which we missed in the matches v West Brom, Palace, Wolves, etc.

 

[GT49er]

Rubbish unless anybody can convince me how with basically same squad we are better than last season

All our younger players have a season more PL experience behind them - and being a young squad, this works in our favour. They'll have learned a lot.

(Plus we were pretty much mid table through the second half of the season (as our young players learned, developed and got better).

 

[Eric the meek]

Last season, our many missed chances cost us dearly, and could have cost us our premier league status and all that goes with it.

It's a racing certainty that the club will have been crawling all over them, studying why we missed so many, and what we could have done differently to put them away. While other clubs will have been working on their own weaknesses, it's not unreasonable to expect our goal tally in the coming season to be better than the last. I hope I'm not tempting fate...

 

[warmleyseagull]

Well lets not bother with 38 games, and settle on 8th - suits me, saves 6.5 hour round trip, several bob on ST, fuel, parking, beer etc etc.

 

[warmleyseagull]

The bit I'm most interested in is who we'll take 0.7pts off.

Haven't you heard? its the revenge of the mighty 6 - draw with them and you get 0.7.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

If we signed a striker I'd agree we have a decent chance of battling for 8th with a huge gap above us. Without one I think 12th/13th is more likely this year.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Wow we get a load of Virtual points again.

How exciting!

 

[Pevenseagull]

I'm assuming that's without the 20 goal a season new lad.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Hang on .... Isn't that worse than last season's hypothetical table had us finishing?

Potter out!

 

[jakarta]

If we signed a striker I'd agree we have a decent chance of battling for 8th with a huge gap above us. Without one I think 12th/13th is more likely this year.

Is the right answer...

 

[Juan Albion]

8th is totally doable this season. This is going to be our best season ever. It is so exciting.