"Debatable decisions" Table of the EPL

The Referee Bias Index (100 = Total Bias in Favour of Team; 0 = Total Bias Against) is revealing with regard to football clubs that are systemically targeted over seasons within their leagues.

Take Arsenal.

In the last 7 seasons in the Premier League, Arsenal have not once achieved the average total of 50.
Arsenal's average index for this window is 38.

In the same period Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester City have fallen below the 50 threshold on just four occasions...
... in total!
Between them!!

Out of 35 occurrences for the Big Five, 31 resulted in a positive bias.
Out of 7 seasons for Arsenal, not one did.

Chelsea average 61.
And Liverpool 64 which makes it even more remarkable that they struggle even to qualify for the Champions League.

This level of bifurcation is significant.
It is not possible to win titles carrying the Arsenal handicapping weight - in our databases, there are no instances in any major European league over the last decade and a half where the title has been won with a Referee Index below 40.

What a weird fluke!

NB Referee Index calculated as follows: Key Penalty or Sending Off +/-1 (only valid if relevant, ie a Penalty awarded in 90th min at 0-4 down is irrelevant); Ghost Goal +/-1; Foul/Booking Average >10 +0.5; Foul/Booking Average <5 -0.5; Penalties and Sendings Off not given -/+1; Penalties and Sendings Off mistakenly given +/-1. Each match is totalised and cumulated over the season and the Referee Index = (Total Integer in Favour of Club/ Total Seasonal Integer) x 100.

rwo power wrote:In Germany we have a website called "Wahre Tabelle" (=True Table) for a while now - you can check the results since 2006/07 there and it is pretty interesting: http://www.wahretabelle.de/wahretabelle/wahre-tabelle.php

BTW, they have some more fun stats there including who fouls most, who kills the most chances etc.

REWB wrote:We would have won the title in 07/08 we had fair refereeing decisions , we were the best epl team that year imo, we played everyone off the park.

jibers wrote:

REWB wrote:We would have won the title in 07/08 we had fair refereeing decisions , we were the best epl team that year imo, we played everyone off the park.

u lost to united away and drew with us 2-2 in extra time. WTF am I reading?

Ali"The Superman"8775 wrote:

jibers wrote:

REWB wrote:We would have won the title in 07/08 we had fair refereeing decisions , we were the best epl team that year imo, we played everyone off the park.

u lost to united away and drew with us 2-2 in extra time. WTF am I reading?

Our team was better individually and as a team than yours though

BarrileteCosmico wrote:I know that as a Barca fan this year I'm no one to speak, but every year an Arsenal fan posts a table of what ifs. Last year it was "what the table would look like if Arsenal finished their chances".

United trashed a full strength Arsenal in the FA cup 5th round 4-0

RealGunner wrote:

United trashed a full strength Arsenal in the FA cup 5th round 4-0

Arsenal team that match

Arsenal: Lehmann, Justin Hoyte, Gallas, Toure, Traore, Eboue, Fabregas , Silva, Hleb , Eduardo , Bendtner.

RealGunner wrote:i really dont want to end up in this debate or whatever but we did have a great team that season, and i know its excuses but if eduardo hadnt broke his leg , who knows what would have happened. We had a 5 points lead till match

But since united won the treble, little to contest who was the best that season

jibers wrote:

Ali"The Superman"8775 wrote:

jibers wrote:

REWB wrote:We would have won the title in 07/08 we had fair refereeing decisions , we were the best epl team that year imo, we played everyone off the park.

u lost to united away and drew with us 2-2 in extra time. WTF am I reading?

Our team was better individually and as a team than yours though

LOL, Rooney was better than everyone in your team, so was Ronaldo, Hargreaves was the best Cm, Scholes, the best United back line, we won the CL...rofl...individually, rigggghhhhhttt.....LOOOOL

As a team what did you win? Nothing, that same team reached an FA cup final the season before, won the prem and reached a cl final again. Get a grip ffs. LOL, Individually, Ronaldo was better than half your damn team ffs. VDS > Almunia ROFL. This has to be the worst post I have read on GL, and that takes some doing...well done.... ROFL

O before I forget wheer was your betetr team and individuals when a not full squad United trashed a full strength Arsenal in the FA cup 5th round 4-0, where Nani made your defence look like a joke...lol...Nani tore your team apart that game and your team...personified by that thug Gallas tried injuring him...





I await your well thougfht out response...

Ali"The Superman"8775 wrote:

jibers wrote:

Ali"The Superman"8775 wrote:

jibers wrote:

REWB wrote:We would have won the title in 07/08 we had fair refereeing decisions , we were the best epl team that year imo, we played everyone off the park.

u lost to united away and drew with us 2-2 in extra time. WTF am I reading?

Our team was better individually and as a team than yours though

LOL, Rooney was better than everyone in your team, so was Ronaldo, Hargreaves was the best Cm, Scholes, the best United back line, we won the CL...rofl...individually, rigggghhhhhttt.....LOOOOL

As a team what did you win? Nothing, that same team reached an FA cup final the season before, won the prem and reached a cl final again. Get a grip ffs. LOL, Individually, Ronaldo was better than half your damn team ffs. VDS > Almunia ROFL. This has to be the worst post I have read on GL, and that takes some doing...well done.... ROFL

O before I forget wheer was your betetr team and individuals when a not full squad United trashed a full strength Arsenal in the FA cup 5th round 4-0, where Nani made your defence look like a joke...lol...Nani tore your team apart that game and your team...personified by that thug Gallas tried injuring him...





I await your well thougfht out response...

We were leading the EPL race all year until Eduardo's injury where the teams moral fell apart and then we collapsed. You also won last year but your team was absolute shite, and when Porto won the CL there were many teams that were better than them. Just because you win doesn't mean you are better individually.

Our midfield held possession the best in the whole league. Hargreaves could not hold a spark to any of the CMs we had at the time. Fabregas, Flamini, Rosicky, Hleb, Adebayor >> Rooney at the time, how many did Ade slot that season? He was phenomenal, but people forget that he was insane with us that season.

Kolo Toure is an invincible and was one hell of a defender and Eboue was one of if not the best RB at the time. Clichy was doing well. Gallas wasn't bad at all at the time as well but he wasn't something I'm going to brag about. Almunia is a weak spot and mock him as much as you'd like. Eduardo was one of the best finishers at the time and we had a van Persie on the team. If you want to bring up the fact that he didn't play much and try to say "he wasn't that good at the time" He scored 10 goals and made 6 assists in 21 games. I don't need to remind anyone what a monster Flamini was.

On top of all this we played a very fluid game and it was very hard to hold the ball against us, let alone play us. We were mentally weak and that is what lead to our downfall.

Also, once upon a time you could debate on Goallegacy without being laughing at or disrespected.

free_cat wrote:

Nice sig Raptorgunner.
Catalan power! Anna Simon! I'm in love with that girl.

Jibers, your zyzz loveis creepy.

REWB wrote:We would have won the title in 07/08 we had fair refereeing decisions , we were the best epl team that year imo, we played everyone off the park.