Atlético Madrid tops the big-5 league efficiency rankings
The technical statistics produced by the leading data football company InStat are very valuable to analyse performance on an objective basis. Issue number 210 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 50 teams in 35 European competitions with the most positive and negative gaps between points per match achieved and predicted on the basis of a performance model including the variables of shots conceded from the box, possession and shots on target.
The highest positive gap between points achieved and predicted according to pitch production was recorded for Viktoria Plzeň. The Czech side obtained so far 2.88 points per game instead of 1.6. At big-5 league level, the greater positive difference between points achieved and expected was measured for Atlético Madrid. Burnley, Monaco, Manchester United, Nantes and Valencia were also particularly efficient.
Conversely, Greek sides Platanias heads the table for teams that achieved the least points per game with respect to their performance level (-0.97 points per match). Benevento and Milan AC were also particularly inefficient. Future will tell to what extent these negative gaps are related to bad luck. The European rankings for the three performance metrics used for this analysis are available here. Please contact us for more information about InStat data.
Gap between points achieved and predicted, since the start of the season
[Def]: shots conceded from box per match - [Pos]: possession (%), effective playing time - [Att]: shots on target per match
Date: 01/01/2018 - 35 leagues covered: AUT, BEL, BLR, BUL, CRO, CZE, DEN, ENG, ENG/D2, ESP, ESP/D2, FIN, FRA, FRA/D2, GER, GER/D2, GRE, HUN, ISR, ITA, ITA/D2, NED, NOR, POL, POR, ROM, RUS, SCO, SRB, SUI, SVK, SVN, SWE, TUR and UKR
Editors : Raffaele Poli, Roger Besson and Loïc Ravenel
Contact : football.observatory@cies.ch
