Going into a discussion related to statistics with a couple of anecdotes - tut. Reep only seems to have followed one team - albeit playing against many others.

Going into a discussion related to statistics with a couple of anecdotes - tut. Reep only seems to have followed one team - albeit playing against many others. If he'd got other like minded people to do the same for their teams (ideally all teams in all leagues!) as well then that would help to control one or two of the huge number of variables. Then as the article alludes, if he'd looked at the sequences that lead to a score, rather than working back from a score to the sequence that lead to it, something really useful might have emerged. One thing is certain however: whatever the English national (soccer) team decides is a good idea - it isn't. It's a bit embarrassing to be honest.