Another Football Analyst

Another football analyst, looking mostly at the SkyBet Championship and #ReadingFC

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[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

Stuff and Things!

I've published some of my visuals from the #ReadingFC 2020/21 Season on Tableau Public. Short explainers in the thread below - all feedback welcome (in particular about whether people find Tableau Public user friendly). Easiest to see things on a laptop/PC.

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

Sad to miss the game today, but emotional from a distance!

Today is all about every single person who's fought tirelessly to keep this club alive over the last few years - this success, and everything that follows, is all yours 💙🤍

You have given us our club back.

#ReadingFC

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

Look, the new shirt is very nice but it is just wrong to release it before the end of the previous season 😅

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

@NTT20Pod Result mathematically ensures Reading are safe (assuming no more deductions).

Barnsley should be fun to watch in the POs; may struggle against other sides who look to hit in transition, but will create plenty themselves.

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

@NTT20Pod Barnsley 2-2 Reading

End to end game with neither team interested in defending - both sides will probably reckon they could have had five.

Barnsley's commitment to using width at pace really helped them create if/when they could break the press.

Jalo lively when he came on.

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

That game was a 90 minute highlight reel with both sides missing plenty.

But it's been such a true and genuine joy watching this group on the ball play exciting, attractive, forward thinking football.

Unbelievably proud of my (mathematically safe) club this evening.

#ReadingFC

[Nelson Abbey @NelsonAbbey03]

Lewis Wing is unreal

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

@RFCJoeJ Assuming no further deductions, yes. Port Vale, Fleetwood and Carlisle all cannot catch us.

Cheltenham can catch us, but in doing so would have to beat Burton which ensures they couldn't catch us.

#ReadingFC

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

We. Are. Safe.

#ReadingFC

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

With PV losing tonight, we have permutations for Sat (assuming no more deductions)!

If #ReadingFC WIN and PV don't = SAFE as CHE and BUR play eachother and can't both hit 52

If we WIN, CHE and BUR both don't = SAFE

If we DRAW, PV lose and either CHE or BUR drop points = SAFE

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

HT 1-1

Frantic, entertaining game that we've probably had the better of but chances at both ends. Barnsley using width and overloads reasonably well; we're so dangerous in transition.

More corners like the first please boys.

#ReadingFC

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

@BiscuitAnalytic The relief when we align!! 😅

[Biscuit Analytic @BiscuitAnalytic]

Scenarios for tomorrow if #ReadingFC achieve a positive result where 30/54 possible combos will see them mathmatically safe.

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

@RFCJoeJ Saturday ☺️

https://t.co/rqwLMb9T1X

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

With PV losing tonight, we have permutations for Sat (assuming no more deductions)!

If #ReadingFC WIN and PV don't = SAFE as CHE and BUR play eachother and can't both hit 52

If we WIN, CHE and BUR both don't = SAFE

If we DRAW, PV lose and either CHE or BUR drop points = SAFE

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

With PV losing tonight, we have permutations for Sat (assuming no more deductions)!

If #ReadingFC WIN and PV don't = SAFE as CHE and BUR play eachother and can't both hit 52

If we WIN, CHE and BUR both don't = SAFE

If we DRAW, PV lose and either CHE or BUR drop points = SAFE

[Biscuit Analytic @BiscuitAnalytic]

#ReadingFC can now confirm safety on Saturday if

Reading win (52)

- Burton fail to beat Stevenage (Max 50)
- Cheltenham fail to beat Bristol Rovers (Max 51)
- Fleetwood cannot catch Reading.
- Carlisle cannot catch Reading.

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

@ElmParkRoyals Good old Kyocera Mita Stand!

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

The 106 team really were sensational. No team since have picked up more points at any point past GW27; no championship winning team has been able to beat the record past GW41.

Leicester may have had us in the first half of the season, but Coppell's record persists.

#ReadingFC

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

🧵 A bit of a thread and a refresh on just how strong the record-setting #ReadingFC team of 2005/06 was 👇

[Another Football Analyst @Analytics1871]

In fact, compared to that #ReadingFC team, Leicester are the *only side* who've been equal to our record breaking team into the second half of the season, falling behind after GW27. Of the 18 teams below, only 8 of them have been equal to, or ahead of, the 106 team after 10 GWs.