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| Frequently Asked Questions |
How come the automated forecasts have been replaced with a new Head-to-head analysis table?
For some time the site has been wrongly perceived as a tipping service by some users and in different directories and site descriptions on the internet. Typically tipping sites provide tips on a selected, limited number of matches, taking into consideration some "human" factors and publish performance reports on past tips. This is not the type of activity we specialize in as we have always tried to provide team performance analysis for every single match and team in the leagues we cover. Yet there has been some confusion as to what those stats were about and the time and effort spent answering emails to try to clarify things despite the mentions already posted on the site was beginning to have a negative impact on our ability to continue maintaining the site. It was time to refocus the site on its core strengths, and use our time to build some new indicators that our users have been requesting for a while, and claim back time later to allow to cover more leagues, or increase the depth of the coverage of leagues we already track.
Yet, we wouldn't want to give up on analyzing team strengths for upcoming games. Obviously a lot of our users are statistics-lovers and among the inquiries, it was reported that all calculations/results on the site could be explained and verified easily except for the forecasts, for which a detailed explanation would require publicizing the source code of the script used by the server, which is of course copyrighted and not public information. Some users have asked for the possibility to select their own parameters and be able to generate automated forecasts accordingly. Other users have been reporting that what they need is a set of quantifiable indicators and analysis that could be useful to them in other to refine their own analysis for upcoming matches. After reviewing the feedback, we have created a new pre-match analysis table, that includes some of the most requested indicators. We'll do our best to also include some of the other requested indicators in the future, possibly as a different table, by lack of space in the current table.
I am looking for a very specific piece of information/statistics about a league, team or player and I don't seem to find it on this site. Where else could I look for it?
For historical statistics, you may find what you are looking for at the following amazing site: RSSSF Archive. Another great resource for historical data is Histora.org. That site contains a wealth of information and statistics on international soccer.
How come there are some important leagues not listed?
The raw data from which the statistics are calculated is provided on a voluntarily basis by contributors in different countries. Sometimes a contributor can no longer participate and so we can no longer track the corresponding league. It can be quite time consuming to gather results data on a regular basis. We prefer to limit the number of leagues we track, not necessarily to those leagues that are the most important, but to those we can update more regularly.
Could you send me a player or a club manager's email address?
Sorry, we can't. We are not related to any soccer club or official soccer organisation. We only provide soccer information. We too are soccer fans and would love to be able to communicate with our favourite players :)
Can you tell me how many penalties a player has taken, or who is the youngest player to be substituted in during the World Cup?
Unfortunately we don't have access to that level of granularity in the data we get. While we do provide some player-level data for a few leagues, like goals scorers, most of the data we track is at the team and league levels.
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