Highbury_Blade
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Stephen Quinn is currently perched on top of the League 1 assists charts, and perhaps unfairly, Kevin MacDonald is not in the list.
Now as some have rightly pointed out, asissts can be a bit meaningless, given that you can get an assist for the ball bouncing off your arse, whilst the 50 yard pass that led to the goal gets nothing.
In an attempt to redress the balance i'm going to go through all the video highlights of our games, and assign a point for every key pass that led to a goal.
By key pass i mean every pass that was part of the phase of the attacking play where the play moved on from looking for an opening, into actively exploiting the opening. This could lead to some interesting debate and i'll be happy to modify my findings based on feedback.
I'll try and do one or two a day but University work has to take precedent.
Sheff Utd V Oldham
1-0 Corner from Quinn, directly onto Maguire's head
2-0 ball down the line from MacDonald to Quinn, Quinn crosses it in where it gets turned in by Cresswell
Hartlepool V Sheffield Utd (Carling Cup)
Bladesplayer video is poor quality on this one so not sure who provides the final ball
1-0 Doyle lays it off to quinn, who prods it out wide to Mendez-laing(?). They supply the cross that Quinn heads home
Table so far
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 300, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD]Player Name[/TD]
[TD]Key Passes[/TD]
[TD]Goals[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Quinn[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]MacDonald[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Maguire[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Cresswell[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Doyle[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mendez-laing[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
PS - Foxy is there any way of enabling sorting on the tables via a jQuery plugin or something?
Now as some have rightly pointed out, asissts can be a bit meaningless, given that you can get an assist for the ball bouncing off your arse, whilst the 50 yard pass that led to the goal gets nothing.
In an attempt to redress the balance i'm going to go through all the video highlights of our games, and assign a point for every key pass that led to a goal.
By key pass i mean every pass that was part of the phase of the attacking play where the play moved on from looking for an opening, into actively exploiting the opening. This could lead to some interesting debate and i'll be happy to modify my findings based on feedback.
I'll try and do one or two a day but University work has to take precedent.
Sheff Utd V Oldham
1-0 Corner from Quinn, directly onto Maguire's head
2-0 ball down the line from MacDonald to Quinn, Quinn crosses it in where it gets turned in by Cresswell
Hartlepool V Sheffield Utd (Carling Cup)
Bladesplayer video is poor quality on this one so not sure who provides the final ball
1-0 Doyle lays it off to quinn, who prods it out wide to Mendez-laing(?). They supply the cross that Quinn heads home
Table so far
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 300, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD]Player Name[/TD]
[TD]Key Passes[/TD]
[TD]Goals[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Quinn[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]MacDonald[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Maguire[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Cresswell[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Doyle[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mendez-laing[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
PS - Foxy is there any way of enabling sorting on the tables via a jQuery plugin or something?