Have we been unlucky? Quick stats crunch

[john jako]

The fans are unlucky to be spoon fed fraud after fraud to manage the team. Unlucky to be lied to saying ‘they get everton’.

 

[billyblue80]

A bit but mainly spineless and leaderless. So...

 

[CRIMHEAD]

I'm confused, so I can't post a thread like this? Why not just ignore it? I made it clear what is was.

Clearly Wolves have been fortunate.

 

[CRIMHEAD]

A bit but mainly spineless and leaderless. So...

Yeah, if anything, maybe we've had a bit of misfortune. But we can all see that we are bad at defending set pieces - and the stats back it up.

 

[Frang]

Just a proper banter club.

Silva just needs time and his own bleeding players..

How

Many

Times

Lads

Lads?

 

[orly]

Silva just needs time and his own bleeding players..

How

Many

Times

Lads

Lads?

Frank what's going on at the moment, you are posting relentless garbage

 

[Frang]

Frank what's going on at the moment, you are posting relentless garbage

Orly friend .. I'm having a bad weekend

 

[orly]

Orly friend .. I'm having a bad weekend

Sorry to hear that mate

 

[Apathy]

We get what we deserve

 

[Zezti]

Both, honestly.
Unlucky with that flukey derby goal and the maradona yesterday. But there's clearly coaching issues.

I'd add some more facts to this thread:
- In the league, we've gone behind 12 times. Only 3 times we've managed to salvage draws (Huddersfield (H), Newcastle (H), Watford (H)), and not once have we come back to win.
- We've failed to hold a lead 4 times.

I don't know what Silva tells the players, but its definitely not how to fight.

 

[marnie]

No.We have been SHABITE.

 

[4737carlin]

I dont think we have been unlucky at all, you make your own luck.

 

[Apathy]

Unlucky or gash? Or both.
Probably both.

 

[degsy]

I know some of you don't give a flip about stats and I concede that they should be viewed as nothing more than a piece of objective reality...however, I have been as frustrated as anyone about our play and was playing around on Squawka's site looking for some objective reality and two stats that caught my eye...

DEF ERROR GOAL & DEF ERROR NO GOAL.

My thought was that we seem a bit unlucky...we've conceded too many set piece goals, no question, but in open play, we've been pretty sound. My thought was who were the luckiest vs. unluckiest teams, which teams seem to always concede when they make an error vs. the ones that don't.

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Now I didn't double check the stats and they were as of last week, but sure enough, we are a bit unlucky. We've commited 12 defensive errors and conceded 5 goals from them. Average for the league is 29%. But nowhere near as unlucky as Huddersfield. It also is interesting that Wolves has been remarkably lucky - which makes sense, because when I watch them they don't see particularly good other than passing the ball fairly well. Leicster is also quite lucky.

Now really, it's not all luck, many of these teams pack it in or play counter attacking styles and with more numbers behind the ball, perhaps it's tougher to convert those mistakes into goals..no sure. Goalkeeping might be a help as well, there are some pretty good players at the top IMO.

Anyways, thought it was worth posting.

7 poor teams at the bottom. You add poor to being unlucky and you get Huddersfield

 

[thefisch26]

Just putting it out there, seems like the “better” teams are the luckier ones. Which suggests that maybe it isn’t luck?