Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Goals From Fast Breaks: The 2010/11 Premier League Rankings

Although some of this information is elsewhere on this blog in other form, by popular demand in response to the earlier post, here are the total number of (Guardian Chalkboards/Opta defined) goals from fast breaks (first graph), as well as the ratio of fast break goals to all goals (second graph) for last season (2010/11). To orient yourself, recall that teams scored about .08 goals from fast breaks per match, and the average team scored about 6% of all goals from fast breaks - though in both categories there was lots of variation, as you can see.



Aside from the curious outlier Wigan, teams like West Brom and Manchester United managed to score almost 10% of their goals from fast breaks. In contrast, not even 1% of Newcastle's came from this source.

See any other interesting patterns? Enjoy!