Redslo Posted 23 March, 2015 Share Posted 23 March, 2015 I found this slightly interesting. http://www.football-observatory.com/Three-quarter-of-Premier-League-minutes-played-by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 23 March, 2015 Share Posted 23 March, 2015 No, it's pointless. It is meaningless data. What is the hypothesis this data is trying to prove or disprove? What are the outcomes and action points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redslo Posted 23 March, 2015 Author Share Posted 23 March, 2015 No, it's pointless. It is meaningless data. What is the hypothesis this data is trying to prove or disprove? What are the outcomes and action points? I don't think the data was collected with the specific intent to disprove a hypothesis. However, I would imagine that is this data were available over a long enough period of time you could test the hypothesis that minutes played by internationals is positively correlated with club performance. If this turned out to be true you could use the information as a proxy for club and, possibly, league quality. You might be able to determine whether international status correlates with player costs (salary and transfer fees) and then do some kind of regression analysis to see whether international status is overvalued or undervalue and then conduct recruitment accordingly. No doubt other lines of investigation would occur to other people--or to me if I spent more time thinking about it. I do agree that the information just presented, by itself doesn't prove or demonstrate much of anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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