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Squawka delivers football fans stats worth sharing…

…comprehensive match statistics, visualised and shareable at the click of a button

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Stats Worth Sharing – every team and player has their own page with sharable stats

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Some stats to get you interested.

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The Squawka Academy – Who Is The Best Striker?

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Stats aren’t just a boring part of Maths.

Statistics is something you can use.

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The Squawka Academy – Equipment

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The Squawka Academy – The Warm-Up

1. Fill in the blanks in the Shot Conversion % and Pass Completion % columns on the ‘Data Sheet’ 2. Work out the Inter-Quartile Range of the Completed Passes column for the 10 players. Use exact, do not round up! Comment on the findings 3. On the graph paper provided: a) Plot a scatter graph of goals against shots for all 10 strikersb) Draw a Line of Best Fit & make an estimate of its Equationc) Comment on who you think are the 2 best and 2 worst strikers

based on what players are above and below the line

The Squawka Academy – The Final

In your groups:  Use the stats to decide who YOU think is the best striker  Provide two reasons, each with a headline stat and a

visualisation that illustrates why you think this is the case  Each group will do a short presentation at the end of the

session

The best presentation will be judged by the Squawka Data Analysts

  

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• A £5 Amazon gift voucher for every member of the winning team

• Your visualisation featured on the Squawka News Site

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The Squawka Academy – The Trophy

• TJ Johnson - Data Analyst • David O’Brien - Data Analyst

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The Squawka Academy – I Need Help?

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The Squawka Academy – The Answers

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The Squawka Academy – The Answers

Remember, we are not using the INTEGER, but the DECIMAL VALUE 

25 Percentile = ((n+1)/4)th = 2.75th Value = 422.25 

75 Percentile = ((n+1)/4) x 3)th = 8.25th Value = 998  IQR = 998 - 422.25 = 575.75 

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The Squawka Academy – The Answers

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f(x) = 3.77868594781515 x + 23.1861049984282

Total Shots v Goals, Premier League 2011/12

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Two Best: Berbatov, Benteke (Below the line = Fewer Shots, More Goals) Argument for Van Persie too, but closer to line.

Two Worst: Carroll, Tevez (Above the line = More Shots, Fewer Goals) Also Suarez, but did

score 23 goals.

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