Comparing Newcastle United’s Age Distribution – 2009/10 vs 2016/17
A statistical analysis of Newcastle United’s Age Demographic between the current Championship season and the previous Championship-winning campaign of 2009/10 shows a [...]
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STEVE MCCLAREN: JUDGED AFTER 12 GAMES
Article courtesy of Newcastle Stats (@NewcastleStats) September 2015: “Judge me after 10 games” October 2015: “Judge me after 12 games” November 2015: “Don’t [...]
Should Pardew be Sacked? 8 Worrying Statstics in Supoort of #PardewOut Campaign
Article Courtesy of Newcastle Stats. Alan Pardew was appointed NUFC boss in December 2010, and soon went on to guide us to our first European campaign since our return to top [...]
Did Pardew ever give Ben Arfa a fair chance? Stats and Analysis
Monday 2nd September 2014 brought to an end one of the longest debates in toon history: Hatem Ben Arfa’s role at Newcastle. This much documented debate was brought to [...]
Statistical Analysis: How Important Was Yohan Cabaye To Newcastle?
Article courtesy of Newcastle Stats (@NewcastleStats) Yohan “Dreamboat” Cabaye, our French maestro in midfield – intelligent on the ball, fantastic technique, the [...]
Newcastle’s Club Model is Sound – but its functioning is all wrong
By Josh Macmillan Mike Ashley is a marmite sort of person for most Newcastle United fans. I’m going to try and point out the few good things that Mike Ashley has done for [...]
Newcastle’s Team Selection the Least Varied in the League
The Daily Mail have today published an article, analysing the frequency of changes made to the starting line-up of each Premier League team. The Magpies have only made 31 [...]
The Curious Case of Hatem Ben Arfa: Statistical Analysis
Written by Kain Watson (@kainnufc) Few players have lit up St. James’ Park in recent years in quite the same way that Hatem Ben Arfa has. When he’s on the pitch there’s [...]
Rémy Cabella: A Statistical Analysis
Written by Kain Watson January has generally been a fortuitous month for Newcastle United in terms of recruitment in recent years. The January transfer window has seen The [...]
Engineers Produce League Table Prediction… and it’s good for Newcastle
The statisticians at Bloomberg Sports have crunched some numbers into their super computer and come up with a predicted 2013/14 Premier League table, which makes good [...]
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