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View Carox's Profile Carox Flag Oxted 24 Feb 17 3.36pm Send a Private Message to Carox Add Carox as a friend

Oh dear, comments in the latest match programme do not inspire confidence. First, he's happy with a draw. Second, he thinks that if each player improves by 2%, that means the team as a whole will improve by 22% 🙄🙄😩

 

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View AshfordEagle94's Profile AshfordEagle94 Flag Canterbury 24 Feb 17 3.51pm Send a Private Message to AshfordEagle94 Add AshfordEagle94 as a friend

Originally posted by Carox

Oh dear, comments in the latest match programme do not inspire confidence. First, he's happy with a draw. Second, he thinks that if each player improves by 2%, that means the team as a whole will improve by 22% 🙄🙄😩

I'm missing the issue here clearly... Although we all want a win, would I settle for a point with the possibilty that a few results could get us the confidence to get more result? yes I would. Also, the maths would suggest he's talking about the starting 11.

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 24 Feb 17 3.54pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Allardyce loves his stats !

 

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View Carox's Profile Carox Flag Oxted 24 Feb 17 3.59pm Send a Private Message to Carox Add Carox as a friend

If each player improves by 2%, then the team as a whole improves by 2%, not 22%!

 

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View AshfordEagle94's Profile AshfordEagle94 Flag Canterbury 24 Feb 17 4.12pm Send a Private Message to AshfordEagle94 Add AshfordEagle94 as a friend

Originally posted by Carox

If each player improves by 2%, then the team as a whole improves by 2%, not 22%!

Well then I apologise. My maths isn't my strong point either! Who would have thought I'd be learning on Holmesdale

 

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View Mapletree's Profile Mapletree Flag Croydon 24 Feb 17 4.17pm Send a Private Message to Mapletree Add Mapletree as a friend

Originally posted by Carox

If each player improves by 2%, then the team as a whole improves by 2%, not 22%!

Unless it's a geometric rather than arithmetic progression. If you multiply each player together, ie 1.02 to the power of 14, you get a 32% improvement.

 

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View Willo's Profile Willo Online Flag South coast - west of Brighton. 24 Feb 17 4.24pm Send a Private Message to Willo Add Willo as a friend

Originally posted by Mapletree

Unless it's a geometric rather than arithmetic progression. If you multiply each player together, ie 1.02 to the power of 14, you get a 32% improvement.

Getting all very technical - I haven't the 'Bandwidth' mentally to take this all in at my age ! I'm afraid I am cerebrally challenged !

Point Allardyce was making is that if every player improves, the whole team improves - one can argue and debate the maths till those darned 'Cows come home' !

 

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View AshfordEagle94's Profile AshfordEagle94 Flag Canterbury 24 Feb 17 4.27pm Send a Private Message to AshfordEagle94 Add AshfordEagle94 as a friend

To be honest who cares about the percentage as long as it adds up to a result tomorrow

 

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View Petereagle's Profile Petereagle Flag Brockley 24 Feb 17 5.05pm Send a Private Message to Petereagle Add Petereagle as a friend

Originally posted by Carox

Oh dear, comments in the latest match programme do not inspire confidence. First, he's happy with a draw. Second, he thinks that if each player improves by 2%, that means the team as a whole will improve by 22% 🙄🙄😩

My maths would say that if each player improves by 2%, that the team would improve by - 2%. I hope BFS is right!

 

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View paperhat's Profile paperhat Flag croydon 24 Feb 17 5.30pm Send a Private Message to paperhat Add paperhat as a friend

my maths say that if we score more goals (in the correct end) than boro then we have a 100% chance of 3 points.

 


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chateauferret Flag 24 Feb 17 5.33pm

Perhaps he means "if each player contributes a 2% improvement in the team's performance".

But it's missing the point, which is that there are certain non-trovial issues to be fixed and if those were cleared up we would be a different outfit.

 


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View FairweatherEagle's Profile FairweatherEagle Flag London 24 Feb 17 9.23pm Send a Private Message to FairweatherEagle Add FairweatherEagle as a friend

Originally posted by chateauferret

Perhaps he means "if each player contributes a 2% improvement in the team's performance".

But it's missing the point, which is that there are certain non-trovial issues to be fixed and if those were cleared up we would be a different outfit.

(Sorry to carry on with the percentages but) problem is if each player contributes 2% to the teams performance, that's a 22% improvement in their own performance i.e. more than a fifth, which is massive. You could be right but this means a real step up by each and every player. Improvements in things like fitness, skill, speed, sharpness and attitude could conceivably add up to 22% overall improvement in a player.

But I agree there are specific things that need addressing (though we may disagree on what) rather than just some vague notion of "performance".

 

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