Europa league hangovers ? some stats

Nice one Weare. Hopefully Leicester with lack of game time will be sluggish when their programme resumes.

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I'm so glad this myth has been busted

"I would have been interested to see the stats for just away games in Europe. I don't believe it is the games themselves that knacker players out, but the travelling (especially to furthest Eastern Europe)."

Someone (else) with a basic understanding of stats.
Dimensioning by home/away, away + round-trip travel time etc would of course be more definitive.

I agree it is a myth.

If we have a poor result following a EL tie, excuses will be made - but we've had poor results when we've had no midweek game and a whole week rest.

The other problem is what is a "poor result"?

If we lost against the league leaders after a European trip, that doesn't say a lot.

Lose against relegation certainties and that's a poor result.

I found the BBC's article very disappointing. It's far from definitive.

Hooplar,

I think you've just given good suggestions of what is and what isn't a poor result - which is generally why i use the term "poor result" rather than win, lose or draw..

"I found the BBC's article very disappointing. It's far from definitive."

It was correct though for Spurs.
Generally worse results. One (explainable) outlier.

Doesn't appear to be statistically significant though.

Agreed Chicken, which is partly why I was disappointed with the article. You'd need a far bigger sample to get anything worthwhile using the BBC's method (as RDBD has alluded to).

Looks like everyone had a league hangover tonight