Intrigued by the story of Leyton Maxwell- he was the answer to question #5- I did a little digging this week to find out more about him and his sole appearance for Liverpool. First off, there aren’t a lot of pictures of Maxwell in a Liverpool kit on the web- hence the postage stamp to [...]
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The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in Bundesliga, English Premier League, FA Cup, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, Eredivisie, General, League One, League Two, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, The Championship, The Football League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome back! It’s been kind of a weird and slow week around these parts and I was beginning to worry that there would be no answers submitted- especially as I have had to prepare this post about 12 hours ahead of time in order to make sure it was done in time. Harry, J. came [...]
Collective Wisdom or Mob Mentality?: ATD predicts the final Premier League table
Posted in English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Wild Ass Guesses on August 16, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Each year at this time we here at Avoiding the Drop stick our necks out and predict what the final Premier League table will look like. In our previous two attempts at this we’ve done surprisingly well- probably because each time one of us makes a prediction based on nothing other than “scientific homerism,” the [...]
Season Preview: Manchester United
Posted in Champions League, English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, General, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Wild Ass Guesses on August 12, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Last Year’s Record: 23 wins, 11 draws, and 4 losses for 80 points and the league championship. United also won the Community Shield and qualified for the Champions League. Transfers (In): David de Gea (Atletico Madrid), Phil Jones (Blackburn Rovers), and Ashley Young (Aston Villa) Transfers (Out): Paul Scholes (Retirement), Edwin Van Der Sar (Retirement), [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses, WPS on August 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Welcome. You may remember that last week I gave you a list of five USWNT veterans and asked you to tell me the four things these players had in common, as well as which of these things might have proved a hindrance to their football careers. Speaking of hindrances, I hope nobody was thrown off [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in CAF, Champions League, English Premier League, FA Cup, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, MLS, South America, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on July 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Consider yourselves lucky to be reading theses words. Only a month after hurricanes touched down in the “World of Fuse” a freak thunderstorm arrived bringing down power lines on three of the four sides of my block yesterday afternoon and it was over 12 hours before power was restored. It rained hard enough for long [...]
How Does Sabermetrics Work in Soccer?
Posted in Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, tagged Soccermetrics on July 19, 2011 | 19 Comments »
I, like many of you, am a fan of the Michael Lewis baseball book Moneyball; the story, the characters, and the writing mask what is, at heart, a book about geeks and their math, and no matter how you look at that there’s a level of cool to be had there. So when I saw [...]
This Revolution SHOULD NOT be televised!!
Posted in Commentary, Financials, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, MLS, News, Off the Pitch, They've Fallen, Transfer Rumors, Transfers, Transfers Rules and Legalese, USMNT on July 19, 2011 | 13 Comments »
There has been a lot of news coming out of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro over the last two weeks and all of it has been decidedly negative. One of the Revolution’s main supporter’s sections- The Fort- has been essentially run out of town in an attempt to create an even more fan-friendly attitude at the [...]
The Thursday Challenge: The Answers
Posted in English Premier League, First Timers, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, Ross County, Scottish Football League, Scottish Premier League, Trivia, Whimsy, Wild Ass Guesses on July 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Welcome back, folks! There’s lots of good news to report this week. First off, we had (at least to the best of my spotty memory!) a “first-timer” take a crack at the Thursday Challenge, so everyone please welcome Noah B.! Second, we had four participants this year and they all answered five of the six [...]
“Let me take my chances…on the Group of Death”
Posted in Commentary, English Premier League, Euro 2012, FIFA, General, Homerism, Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, UEFA, World Cup 2010, World Cup 2014, World Cup Qualifiers on August 2, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Before I begin to ramble in earnest let me state that I have only the most rudimentary understanding of FIFA’s World Cup Draw. I know that it involves certain nations being put into certain pots on the basis of their past performance and then choosing a nation from each of these pots to make up [...]
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