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Injuries vs Team Age



The wonderful @MarkJFine spent some considerable time since the season started comparing the stats from the final injury table of the season and the average age of the teams in the league.  These are his results:

  1. Seems to be quite a few discrete clusters with just a few outliers, which implies some kind of relationship(s).
  2. Arsenal shows as the youngest and nearly the most injury prone next to Man United. This may imply a cause and effect, where younger inexperienced players were used due to the amount and severity of injuries.
  3. Curious how Newcastle and Sunderland are close, as are QPR and Fulham, although on opposite ends of the spectrum which may imply similar recruiting and training styles due to their locale. Conversely, this is not the case with Liverpool and Everton, both Manchesters, West Brom and Aston Villa; as well as the remaining London teams.
  4. Incidentally, a lot was made of Man United being older and slower than City in the last derby… according to this, not so much.
  5. Ages weighted against number of appearances*.

*Average Weighted Age is the sum of the product of age times appearances for each player, divided by the sum of each players’ appearances.

Pos Team Weighted Age Injury Index
1 Man City 26.68 50
2 Man United 27.09 305
3 Arsenal 26.02 272
4 Tottenham 28.07 249
5 Newcastle 26.31 218
6 Chelsea 28.39 106
7 Everton 28.55 126
8 Liverpool 27.19 95
9 Fulham 29.92 170
10 West Brom 28.48 136
11 Swansea 26.33 117
12 Norwich 26.77 157
13 Sunderland 26.18 198
14 Stoke City 28.86 97
15 Wigan 26.94 73
16 Aston Villa 27.62 155
17 QPR 29.54 176
18 Bolton 28.12 256
19 Blackburn 26.17 143
20 Wolves 26.71 139

 

 

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  • http://andimohr.co.uk Andi

    Interesting – do you record which players are injured week by week or just the total number of injuries per club?

    Would be interesting to do a similar analysis splitting the data into injured and non-injured players. Also recovery time by club and/or by age… lots of fun things to chart!

    • admin

      I record for each club on a weekly basis but going to hopefully have more detailed stats for next season

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