YEP article

Did anyone see the article about attempts to goals ratio in the championship. We were in the middle at 10% the worst was about 8% and the best was just over 13%.

very small margins and backs up the stats in the book The Numbers Game which analysed 1000s of pro games in various leagues and said the average conversion rate is about 1 in 8 (12.5 %). Thus defence does not get the credit it deserves ie if you can reduce the number of attempts then stastically you increase massively your own odds. Thus MBs possession football plays to that.

the one exception is where there is a mistake or an unexpected intervention where the conversion goes up massively - Norwich’s first to goals fell into that - deflection on the free kick and the way the ball fell from the deflection. Hey ho stasitics, damn lies and statistics eh!