ESPN's 18/19 Premier League Luck Index

[BillBrasky]

Luck Index 2019: Man City unlucky? Man United worse than sixth? Aguero robbed? Here's what we found

The second edition of the ESPN Luck Index shows a bigger title win for Man City and a different relegation picture. How did it get there?

www.espn.com

Released yesterday on their ESPNFC website. Unluckiest team in the league last year by a wide margin? You guessed it.

In this year's Luck Index, four types of incidents were considered: red-card incidents (both for players that should not have been sent off and players that should have been), penalty incidents (again, both those incorrectly given as well as those incorrectly not given), goals that were incorrectly disallowed (either by an errant offside or a nonexistent foul in the build-up) and deflected goals.

For the three categories of incident related to officiating errors, a panel that included qualified referees made the determination. There had to be consensus for the incident to be considered an error. The panel made a judgement call with regard to the deflected goal: only shots where the deflection played a key role, either in redirecting the ball on target or in misdirecting the keeper were considered.

 

[Connor]

Oh my god, it's an alternative league table that they didn't win.

 

[Hangleton]

That’s just a pile of crap.

 

[AsiaAsia82]

We were robbed

 

[formerly manx toffee]

Bit of fun

 

[toffeejack]

of course we were the unluckiest, the ridiculous decisions we'd been robbed of about 8 points by the first month or so.

 

[Eggs]

...never mind.

 

[Pab Laa]

Luck Index 2019: Man City unlucky? Man United worse than sixth? Aguero robbed? Here's what we found

The second edition of the ESPN Luck Index shows a bigger title win for Man City and a different relegation picture. How did it get there?

www.espn.com

Released yesterday on their ESPNFC website. Unluckiest team in the league last year by a wide margin? You guessed it.

In this year's Luck Index, four types of incidents were considered: red-card incidents (both for players that should not have been sent off and players that should have been), penalty incidents (again, both those incorrectly given as well as those incorrectly not given), goals that were incorrectly disallowed (either by an errant offside or a nonexistent foul in the build-up) and deflected goals.

For the three categories of incident related to officiating errors, a panel that included qualified referees made the determination. There had to be consensus for the incident to be considered an error. The panel made a judgement call with regard to the deflected goal: only shots where the deflection played a key role, either in redirecting the ball on target or in misdirecting the keeper were considered.

Saw this and nearly posted it myself... So, appart from deflected shots, which are unavoidable, how many points better off we we have been if VAR was in play last season, like the Arsenal offside goal for example?

 

[Big Fat Sam]

I demand an open-arsed march in protest, starting at the Lisbon and ending at the YMCA.