It would be tautological to say that you win in football by scoring more goals than your opponent. What is interesting is that scoring more goals and letting in fewer works across games in a season as well, as data from the English Premier League shows. We had seen an inkling of this last year,…
English Premier League: Goal Difference to points correlation
So I was just looking down the English Premier League Table for the season, and I found that as I went down the list, the goal difference went lower. There’s nothing counterintuitive in this, but the degree of correlation seemed eerie. So I downloaded the data and plotted a scatter-plot. And what do you have?…