A Real Salt Lake blog, 2011–2013
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It is a rainy Tuesday in Salt Lake City, and for that reason — or some other reason entirely — a quick look at some interesting statistics seems in order. Or perhaps it's out of order, and the whole system is out of order. I really don't…
When one finds one's self glancing at statistics day-in, day-out, it all gets a bit hazy, and sometimes the numbers all blend together. I suppose that's rather the fun of it, that blending — that Neo moment, when it suddenly seems as if…
It's been a bit of a slow week, hasn't it? Or at least it's felt like that. I suspect it may be partly me, but sometimes, these midweek drawls are too much. As such, I turn to statistics to see me out of the matchless rut. A bit twisted,…
Right, a short one today as I'm sure we're all rather anxious to get on with things, so let's have at it. But whatever shall we talk about? Well, given my propensity for stats, I thought perhaps I'd compile a list of interesting things…
Let's first run through a few things we know about possession statistics before we wonder how they relate generally and how they relate across the league. First, it's generally not literal possession. Simply, the possession stat, as…
With our win over Colorado, we can derive some interesting statistics from the whole blasted affair. For example, did you know that two of our two goals were scored by Real Salt Lake players? Wait, those aren't interesting statistics. Hold…
There exists among many of us a certain perception that we, as a side, are not as successful when the Rio Tinto does that thing we all wanted to avoid as teenagers and sells out. I've always found it a little bit, well, wide of the mark,…
Right, I skipped yesterday's post, for which I apologize. I'm trying to work back into a morning-post routine, so that's my reasoning, although I certainly could have found time to do it regardless. Instead, I re-watched the second half of…
Today's guest post comes to you from Kreg Asay, who does wonderful stuff with Power Rankings each and every week. This week's published Power Rankings proved to be an interesting test of the various systems the sites use. I watched the…
Now that we've gone through this bye-week nonsense and the standings are starting to level out a bit more, we're still top of the table — on both sides. Not in points-per-match, mind, but that's not what the table looks like, and I'm not…