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One thing I want to do with my shot matrix data is share a lot of it. Last time I used my four-and-a-half season sample of Premier League statistics to identify a weakly persistent but real player tendency to convert shots into goals. Now I'd like to share the data on individual player shooting results. First, I've got everyone who's taken 160 shots or more in the Premier League since 2009.
1) Expected Goals by Shot Location 2) Crosses and Headers 3) The Incredible Through-Ball 4) Team Trends in Shot Quality 5) Identifying Player Shooting Skill
In my previous study linked above, I found a weak but persistent signal under the noise in player shooting skill for players with at least 100 shots in both the combined 2009-2011 seasons and 2011-2013 seasons. So for players with at least 160 shots, probably some portion of the effect seen reflects real ability.
The other thing this data shows, separately from the possibility of player skill, is player shooting results. Given the chances this player has taken, how many goals should he have scored? How well has he done converting chances, adjusted for chance quality? Obviously I am not in any way accounting for every aspect of chance quality. Until we have SportVU for football, we won't be able to account for defensive positioning, and everyone knows the chance of scoring depends hugely on where the defenders are positioned, how prepared they are for the shot, and so on. I am hopeful that over 160 shots, these factors will significantly even out, but I can't know that.
Still, I think the data is interesting. Here we go:
Player Shooting Data 2009-2013
- Shots, shots on target and goals are pretty self-explanatory.
- So is player name.
- S Conv+ is a rating of the player's finishing of shots, scaled to 100. 100 means the player scored exactly as many goals as expected based on the quality of his chaces, over 100 is above average, below is, well, below.
- SoT+ is like S Conv+, but instead is a rating of the player's record putting shots on target. Over 100 means the player was above average at placing his shots on target, and vice versa.
- G/SoT+, then, is scoring rate on shots on target relative to league average.
- Shot Qual is the average quality of shot taken, expressed in chance of scoring. A .10 Shot Qual means that the player's average chance taken had a 10% chance of being converted into a goal. I'll have more on shot quality below.
PLAYER | SHOTS | SOT | GOALS | S CONV+ | SOT+ | G/SOT+ | SHOT QUAL |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wayne Rooney | 543 | 210 | 69 | 140 | 120 | 120 | 0.091 |
Robin van Persie | 510 | 235 | 82 | 130 | 122 | 109 | 0.123 |
Clint Dempsey | 450 | 154 | 41 | 104 | 107 | 101 | 0.087 |
Luis Suárez | 421 | 176 | 49 | 119 | 117 | 99 | 0.098 |
Gareth Bale | 403 | 158 | 40 | 143 | 125 | 119 | 0.070 |
Hugo Rodallega | 397 | 136 | 23 | 72 | 107 | 68 | 0.081 |
Didier Drogba | 388 | 140 | 41 | 120 | 110 | 111 | 0.088 |
Carlos Tévez | 370 | 146 | 46 | 125 | 115 | 113 | 0.099 |
Jermain Defoe | 359 | 140 | 43 | 109 | 109 | 105 | 0.110 |
Frank Lampard | 359 | 125 | 38 | 143 | 115 | 117 | 0.074 |
Fernando Torres | 340 | 127 | 42 | 113 | 104 | 110 | 0.110 |
Dimitar Berbatov | 301 | 122 | 49 | 131 | 111 | 121 | 0.125 |
Demba Ba | 296 | 121 | 36 | 115 | 118 | 97 | 0.106 |
Nani | 292 | 89 | 22 | 118 | 100 | 124 | 0.064 |
Steven Gerrard | 292 | 93 | 21 | 118 | 106 | 110 | 0.061 |
Daniel Sturridge | 289 | 114 | 39 | 141 | 114 | 121 | 0.096 |
Stewart Downing | 283 | 79 | 12 | 67 | 91 | 74 | 0.063 |
Theo Walcott | 279 | 123 | 34 | 123 | 119 | 103 | 0.099 |
Darren Bent | 272 | 118 | 45 | 122 | 113 | 108 | 0.136 |
Peter Crouch | 261 | 101 | 30 | 97 | 110 | 89 | 0.119 |
Andy Carroll | 259 | 84 | 23 | 91 | 100 | 98 | 0.098 |
Sergio Agüero | 258 | 108 | 40 | 129 | 110 | 124 | 0.120 |
Steven Fletcher | 258 | 104 | 41 | 144 | 117 | 114 | 0.110 |
Leon Osman | 258 | 85 | 17 | 80 | 104 | 83 | 0.082 |
Edin Dzeko | 241 | 96 | 33 | 122 | 115 | 106 | 0.113 |
Peter Odemwingie | 236 | 76 | 28 | 131 | 95 | 131 | 0.090 |
Louis Saha | 231 | 72 | 22 | 103 | 95 | 111 | 0.092 |
Charles N'Zogbia | 225 | 78 | 18 | 123 | 110 | 109 | 0.065 |
Ashley Young | 223 | 78 | 13 | 82 | 110 | 84 | 0.071 |
Marouane Fellaini | 222 | 76 | 17 | 76 | 103 | 74 | 0.101 |
Charlie Adam | 222 | 61 | 11 | 101 | 99 | 103 | 0.049 |
Samir Nasri | 220 | 79 | 22 | 111 | 105 | 105 | 0.090 |
Gabriel Agbonlahor | 217 | 87 | 30 | 137 | 116 | 116 | 0.101 |
David Silva | 217 | 76 | 17 | 83 | 102 | 78 | 0.095 |
Kenwyne Jones | 212 | 79 | 21 | 88 | 104 | 89 | 0.113 |
Rafael van der Vaart | 211 | 80 | 19 | 112 | 121 | 91 | 0.080 |
Matthew Taylor | 209 | 63 | 8 | 52 | 96 | 61 | 0.074 |
Chris Brunt | 208 | 47 | 7 | 59 | 79 | 72 | 0.057 |
Yaya Touré | 204 | 66 | 26 | 150 | 101 | 145 | 0.085 |
Emmanuel Adebayor | 201 | 88 | 33 | 108 | 108 | 101 | 0.153 |
Adel Taarabt | 201 | 70 | 7 | 77 | 125 | 64 | 0.045 |
Carlton Cole | 200 | 75 | 17 | 76 | 102 | 79 | 0.111 |
Craig Gardner | 199 | 55 | 14 | 124 | 96 | 121 | 0.057 |
Nicolas Anelka | 193 | 80 | 18 | 89 | 117 | 77 | 0.105 |
Mohamed Diamé | 193 | 47 | 9 | 74 | 82 | 108 | 0.063 |
Cameron Jerome | 191 | 63 | 21 | 91 | 91 | 95 | 0.121 |
Danny Welbeck | 191 | 67 | 18 | 86 | 100 | 89 | 0.109 |
Steven Pienaar | 188 | 60 | 15 | 112 | 102 | 111 | 0.071 |
Luka Modric | 187 | 52 | 9 | 76 | 93 | 87 | 0.063 |
Florent Malouda | 186 | 70 | 27 | 150 | 110 | 123 | 0.097 |
Dirk Kuyt | 185 | 68 | 18 | 72 | 100 | 74 | 0.135 |
Franco Di Santo | 185 | 71 | 14 | 91 | 118 | 80 | 0.084 |
James Morrison | 185 | 52 | 13 | 111 | 96 | 115 | 0.063 |
Andrey Arshavin | 184 | 63 | 16 | 101 | 101 | 98 | 0.086 |
Stéphane Sessegnon | 181 | 57 | 17 | 114 | 98 | 120 | 0.083 |
Robert Huth | 180 | 41 | 13 | 63 | 65 | 89 | 0.115 |
Kevin Doyle | 179 | 53 | 15 | 72 | 84 | 84 | 0.116 |
Victor Moses | 179 | 52 | 10 | 63 | 87 | 78 | 0.088 |
Jonathan Walters | 176 | 56 | 14 | 71 | 90 | 87 | 0.113 |
Jordi Gómez | 174 | 50 | 8 | 66 | 95 | 77 | 0.070 |
Tim Cahill | 173 | 60 | 19 | 100 | 104 | 93 | 0.110 |
Jordan Henderson | 172 | 51 | 11 | 89 | 98 | 92 | 0.072 |
Jamie O'Hara | 172 | 49 | 7 | 78 | 101 | 82 | 0.052 |
Aaron Ramsey | 168 | 55 | 15 | 98 | 97 | 107 | 0.091 |
Kevin Davies | 165 | 48 | 16 | 81 | 82 | 105 | 0.120 |
Johan Elmander | 164 | 51 | 13 | 66 | 86 | 69 | 0.120 |
Bobby Zamora | 164 | 68 | 22 | 129 | 119 | 109 | 0.104 |
Kevin Nolan | 163 | 59 | 22 | 88 | 92 | 89 | 0.154 |
Tom Huddlestone | 162 | 34 | 4 | 60 | 77 | 76 | 0.041 |
There are a lot of things to remark on here, and I'm hoping to hear from all y'all in the comments on individual player ratings that you find interesting, that might be a function of some other effect rather than player skill, whatever.
The one that stands out most to me, having followed him last year, is Adel Taarabt. I think that unlike almost any other EPL player, Taarabt really does just try to put shots on target. Everyone else, pretty much, is trying to score. Taarabt shoots from outside the box, routinely into the keeper's arms, more than any other player I've ever seen. And he does indeed rate above average at SoT+, but he's so incredibly awful at scoring his shots on target that he rates as a very poor finisher overall. Because Taarabt's average chance quality is very poor—in the above table only Tom Huddlestone joins him at under 5% chance quality—he looks like the classic example of a player who wastes possession for little gain.
Stewart Downing is interesting to me. With Liverpool he took tons of shots, 221 from 2011-2013 combined. This season with West Ham, he's taken only 16. Sam Allardyce appears to have recognize what kind of player he has in Downing. (In a future piece, I'll be looking at chance creation quality, and Downing does appear to be one of the better crossers of the ball in the league.) This is not someone who should be shooting.
Shot Quality for Players
I showed in a previous article that average shot quality is a persistent team quality, and particularly a persistent managerial quality. Of course, if the average quality of shots taken remains persistent even for clubs that change their manager, we should think this is a player effect. And it makes sense watching football. Everyone knows that Gareth Bale with take shots from long distance while sometimes also finding himself in good positions in the box, everyone knows that Chicharito just hangs out by the goal and looks for close-range chances. And then there's Andros Townsend, who does nothing but pop from deep. Players have styles of play, which lead to tendencies in what shots they'll attempt and which they won't.
As you can see from the scatter plot to the right, players have strong and distinct tendencies year-to-year to take chances of roughly similar quality. I'm looking at players with just minimum 20 shots in both year 1 and year 2, so this is an effect that shows up in quite small samples. I get a much better correlation, in the range of .80, for players with 75+ shots over multiple seasons.
Now, of course, player tendencies aren't the only thing driving this correlation. There's also tactical effects.
Over on the scatter plot, you can see one dot off to the right edge. In year one, he was just under 0.16, a real penalty box finisher, while in year two he was well below league average at just over .07, numbers that reflect mostly outside-the-box shooting. That's Gylfi Sigurdsson, first with Brendan Rodgers at Swansea City then with Andre Villas-Boas at Tottenham Hotspur. AVB converted Sigurdsson to an outside-the-box attacked to make use of the quality of his long-range shot, leading to a totally different average shot quality. I have isolated players who changed teams, and I find that even at a 20 shot sample, player effects remain. But they're notably weaker when separated from manager effects:
So let's take a look at players with at least 75 shots total who have the highest and lowest average chance quality.
Players Listed by Chance Quality
Since the shot samples are much smaller now, we shouldn't read too much into the shot conversion rates for players with under 100 shots. That could be randomness, especially for players who take on average low quality chances. But I think the shot quality effects reflect real player tendencies, generally. First, we have our penalty box finishers:
PLAYER | SHOTS | SOT | GOALS | S CONV+ | SOT+ | G/SOT+ | SHOT QUAL |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kevin Nolan | 163 | 59 | 22 | 88 | 92 | 89 | 0.154 |
Emmanuel Adebayor | 201 | 88 | 33 | 108 | 108 | 101 | 0.153 |
Javier Hernández | 148 | 69 | 33 | 148 | 119 | 123 | 0.151 |
Ryan Shawcross | 94 | 24 | 7 | 52 | 69 | 71 | 0.143 |
Yakubu | 116 | 48 | 19 | 115 | 108 | 111 | 0.142 |
Darren Bent | 272 | 118 | 45 | 122 | 113 | 108 | 0.136 |
Dirk Kuyt | 185 | 68 | 18 | 72 | 100 | 74 | 0.135 |
DJ Campbell | 79 | 28 | 14 | 131 | 96 | 142 | 0.135 |
John Carew | 94 | 33 | 10 | 79 | 96 | 81 | 0.134 |
Salomon Kalou | 115 | 42 | 16 | 105 | 97 | 107 | 0.133 |
Papiss Demba Cissé | 136 | 57 | 20 | 113 | 111 | 101 | 0.130 |
Branislav Ivanovic | 125 | 44 | 14 | 87 | 99 | 82 | 0.129 |
Danny Graham | 125 | 62 | 14 | 87 | 132 | 70 | 0.128 |
Arouna Koné | 95 | 38 | 11 | 91 | 106 | 89 | 0.127 |
Grant Holt | 126 | 48 | 20 | 127 | 105 | 122 | 0.125 |
Dimitar Berbatov | 301 | 122 | 49 | 131 | 111 | 121 | 0.125 |
Robin van Persie | 510 | 235 | 82 | 130 | 122 | 109 | 0.123 |
Emile Heskey | 76 | 25 | 7 | 75 | 92 | 75 | 0.123 |
Shane Long | 98 | 47 | 18 | 151 | 131 | 113 | 0.122 |
Olivier Giroud | 154 | 57 | 17 | 91 | 100 | 92 | 0.121 |
Cameron Jerome | 191 | 63 | 21 | 91 | 91 | 95 | 0.121 |
Johan Elmander | 164 | 51 | 13 | 66 | 86 | 69 | 0.120 |
Kevin Davies | 165 | 48 | 16 | 81 | 82 | 105 | 0.120 |
Sergio Agüero | 258 | 108 | 40 | 129 | 110 | 124 | 0.120 |
Romelu Lukaku | 133 | 68 | 23 | 145 | 141 | 102 | 0.120 |
Nicklas Bendtner | 134 | 48 | 15 | 94 | 99 | 99 | 0.119 |
Peter Crouch | 261 | 101 | 30 | 97 | 110 | 89 | 0.119 |
Kevin Doyle | 179 | 53 | 15 | 72 | 84 | 84 | 0.116 |
Christopher Samba | 126 | 46 | 10 | 69 | 102 | 69 | 0.115 |
Robert Huth | 180 | 41 | 13 | 63 | 65 | 89 | 0.115 |
Roger Johnson | 81 | 18 | 2 | 22 | 67 | 34 | 0.113 |
Kenwyne Jones | 212 | 79 | 21 | 88 | 104 | 89 | 0.113 |
Andrew Johnson | 88 | 43 | 6 | 60 | 132 | 50 | 0.113 |
Maxi Rodríguez | 107 | 40 | 15 | 124 | 104 | 107 | 0.113 |
Jonathan Walters | 176 | 56 | 14 | 71 | 90 | 87 | 0.113 |
Edin Dzeko | 241 | 96 | 33 | 122 | 115 | 106 | 0.113 |
Carlton Cole | 200 | 75 | 17 | 76 | 102 | 79 | 0.111 |
Tim Cahill | 173 | 60 | 19 | 100 | 104 | 93 | 0.110 |
Steven Fletcher | 258 | 104 | 41 | 144 | 117 | 114 | 0.110 |
Jermain Defoe | 359 | 140 | 43 | 109 | 109 | 105 | 0.110 |
Nikica Jelavic | 126 | 53 | 15 | 108 | 119 | 93 | 0.110 |
Fernando Torres | 340 | 127 | 42 | 113 | 104 | 110 | 0.110 |
Danny Welbeck | 191 | 67 | 18 | 86 | 100 | 89 | 0.109 |
Ricardo Fuller | 107 | 41 | 7 | 60 | 105 | 62 | 0.109 |
David Ngog | 132 | 49 | 10 | 70 | 104 | 69 | 0.108 |
Gary Cahill | 127 | 45 | 14 | 103 | 105 | 110 | 0.107 |
Demba Ba | 296 | 121 | 36 | 115 | 118 | 97 | 0.106 |
Nicolas Anelka | 193 | 80 | 18 | 89 | 117 | 77 | 0.105 |
Michu | 140 | 49 | 20 | 137 | 105 | 129 | 0.104 |
Bobby Zamora | 164 | 68 | 22 | 129 | 119 | 109 | 0.104 |
Martin Skrtel | 81 | 18 | 8 | 96 | 67 | 124 | 0.103 |
Andreas Weimann | 113 | 43 | 10 | 86 | 110 | 88 | 0.103 |
Frédéric Piquionne | 111 | 34 | 8 | 71 | 87 | 80 | 0.101 |
Gabriel Agbonlahor | 217 | 87 | 30 | 137 | 116 | 116 | 0.101 |
Marouane Fellaini | 222 | 76 | 17 | 76 | 103 | 74 | 0.101 |
John Terry | 97 | 33 | 17 | 174 | 107 | 160 | 0.101 |
Thomas Vermaelen | 101 | 29 | 13 | 128 | 86 | 152 | 0.100 |
Anthony Pilkington | 99 | 41 | 14 | 141 | 122 | 127 | 0.100 |
You get a combination here of defenders who mostly attempt headers from set pieces and penalty box strikers / poachers. Kevin Nolan is definitely the right person to head this group up. And here are the long-range speculators:
PLAYER | SHOTS | SOT | GOALS | S CONV+ | SOT+ | G/SOT+ | SHOT QUAL |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andros Townsend | 82 | 22 | 3 | 105 | 102 | 106 | 0.035 |
Aleksandar Kolarov | 116 | 28 | 4 | 97 | 89 | 102 | 0.036 |
Cheik Tioté | 81 | 16 | 1 | 34 | 76 | 44 | 0.037 |
Tom Huddlestone | 162 | 34 | 4 | 60 | 77 | 76 | 0.041 |
Mark Noble | 84 | 22 | 2 | 57 | 96 | 62 | 0.041 |
Maynor Figueroa | 110 | 20 | 3 | 65 | 67 | 95 | 0.042 |
John Arne Riise | 82 | 17 | 72 | 0.042 | |||
Alessandro Diamanti | 96 | 34 | 3 | 74 | 128 | 57 | 0.042 |
Glenn Whelan | 105 | 16 | 3 | 67 | 56 | 137 | 0.042 |
Darron Gibson | 90 | 20 | 4 | 100 | 82 | 127 | 0.044 |
Adel Taarabt | 201 | 70 | 7 | 77 | 125 | 64 | 0.045 |
Phillip Bardsley | 79 | 16 | 6 | 166 | 74 | 254 | 0.046 |
Leighton Baines | 131 | 30 | 8 | 131 | 81 | 150 | 0.047 |
Stilian Petrov | 105 | 28 | 5 | 102 | 96 | 97 | 0.047 |
Morten Gamst Pedersen | 140 | 42 | 10 | 152 | 106 | 132 | 0.047 |
Yohan Cabaye | 142 | 47 | 11 | 159 | 117 | 146 | 0.049 |
Graham Dorrans | 110 | 33 | 4 | 75 | 106 | 70 | 0.049 |
Martin Petrov | 154 | 45 | 7 | 93 | 101 | 92 | 0.049 |
David Luiz | 88 | 26 | 6 | 139 | 108 | 129 | 0.049 |
Charlie Adam | 222 | 61 | 11 | 101 | 99 | 103 | 0.049 |
Joey Barton | 105 | 24 | 5 | 94 | 81 | 106 | 0.051 |
Sebastian Larsson | 154 | 62 | 15 | 189 | 140 | 137 | 0.052 |
Jamie O\'Hara | 172 | 49 | 7 | 78 | 101 | 82 | 0.052 |
Mikel Arteta | 134 | 37 | 14 | 193 | 98 | 158 | 0.054 |
Bradley Johnson | 90 | 20 | 3 | 61 | 78 | 66 | 0.055 |
Hatem Ben Arfa | 104 | 30 | 10 | 175 | 98 | 152 | 0.055 |
Chris Eagles | 156 | 51 | 6 | 69 | 113 | 66 | 0.056 |
Adam Johnson | 153 | 52 | 16 | 186 | 114 | 155 | 0.056 |
Craig Gardner | 199 | 55 | 14 | 124 | 96 | 121 | 0.057 |
Chris Brunt | 208 | 47 | 7 | 59 | 79 | 72 | 0.057 |
Marc Wilson | 82 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 39 | 72 | 0.057 |
Victor Obinna | 77 | 22 | 3 | 68 | 96 | 66 | 0.057 |
Scott Parker | 116 | 32 | 8 | 119 | 94 | 131 | 0.058 |
Raul Meireles | 115 | 35 | 7 | 105 | 103 | 96 | 0.058 |
James Milner | 144 | 44 | 11 | 130 | 103 | 130 | 0.059 |
Robert Snodgrass | 94 | 33 | 7 | 126 | 121 | 111 | 0.059 |
Steven Gerrard | 292 | 93 | 21 | 118 | 106 | 110 | 0.061 |
Mohamed Diamé | 193 | 47 | 9 | 74 | 82 | 108 | 0.063 |
Stewart Downing | 283 | 79 | 12 | 67 | 91 | 74 | 0.063 |
James Morrison | 185 | 52 | 13 | 111 | 96 | 115 | 0.063 |
Michael Carrick | 100 | 22 | 6 | 95 | 75 | 125 | 0.063 |
Luka Modric | 187 | 52 | 9 | 76 | 93 | 87 | 0.063 |
Nani | 292 | 89 | 22 | 118 | 100 | 124 | 0.064 |
Mousa Dembélé | 138 | 46 | 6 | 68 | 112 | 59 | 0.064 |
James McCarthy | 109 | 28 | 7 | 100 | 86 | 99 | 0.064 |
Charles N'Zogbia | 225 | 78 | 18 | 123 | 110 | 109 | 0.065 |
Shaun Wright-Phillips | 138 | 33 | 5 | 56 | 74 | 72 | 0.065 |
Niko Kranjcar | 93 | 31 | 9 | 148 | 111 | 123 | 0.065 |
Santiago Cazorla | 131 | 47 | 13 | 150 | 121 | 121 | 0.066 |
Michael Essien | 108 | 30 | 6 | 83 | 94 | 105 | 0.067 |
Ashley Cole | 80 | 22 | 5 | 93 | 86 | 95 | 0.067 |
Damien Duff | 157 | 54 | 15 | 143 | 111 | 126 | 0.067 |
Nathan Dyer | 110 | 42 | 10 | 135 | 121 | 116 | 0.067 |
Martin Olsson | 78 | 26 | 3 | 57 | 108 | 47 | 0.067 |
Youssuf Mulumbu | 106 | 21 | 10 | 137 | 65 | 171 | 0.069 |
Jonás Gutiérrez | 102 | 23 | 6 | 85 | 75 | 127 | 0.069 |
Gareth Bale | 403 | 158 | 40 | 143 | 125 | 119 | 0.070 |
Jerome Thomas | 90 | 24 | 4 | 64 | 84 | 70 | 0.070 |
Yup, that be Andros Townsend at the very top, no one with over 75 shots in the EPL 2009-2013 has taken on average worse quality shots than Townsend. His conversion rate is actually ok, since he scored a pair of his long-range attempts last year with Queens Park Rangers. But his average shot quality is so bad that three goals in 82 shots in a slightly above average rate.
I do think it's interesting how wide a range you see in the quality of finishing among long-range shooters. We should expect more random variation among players who take more speculative shots, as just one goal can change the numbers drastically. Sandro improved from a roughly 70 rating before his goal against United all the way up to 90 with one strike. But I think it's probably meaningful that among the best long-range shooters we see Yohan Cabaye, Leighton Baines, Hatem Ben Arfa and of course Gareth Bale. And you can see a good number of guys on this list whom you just don't get worried about when they take a long range shot against your club.
Players of Spurs Interest
Finally, I mean, this is a Spurs blog. You're wondering about Pav, aren't you? Well, the numbers might surprise you. Roman Pavlyuchenko scored 15 goals on 120 shots, a rate of 12.5%. His chances were of only average quality, about 8.5%. So Pav, contrary to his joking image, was actually well above average at finishing during his time with Spurs. So there you go. Here's a whole bunch more Spurs or Spurs-adjunct players:
PLAYER | SHOTS | SOT | GOALS | S CONV+ | SOT+ | G/SOT+ | SHOT QUAL |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clint Dempsey | 450 | 154 | 41 | 104 | 107 | 101 | 0.087 |
Gareth Bale | 403 | 158 | 40 | 143 | 125 | 119 | 0.070 |
Jermain Defoe | 359 | 140 | 43 | 109 | 109 | 105 | 0.110 |
Dimitar Berbatov | 301 | 122 | 49 | 131 | 111 | 121 | 0.125 |
Darren Bent | 272 | 118 | 45 | 122 | 113 | 108 | 0.136 |
Peter Crouch | 261 | 101 | 30 | 97 | 110 | 89 | 0.119 |
Rafael van der Vaart | 211 | 80 | 19 | 112 | 121 | 91 | 0.080 |
Adel Taarabt | 201 | 70 | 7 | 77 | 125 | 64 | 0.045 |
Emmanuel Adebayor | 201 | 88 | 33 | 108 | 108 | 101 | 0.153 |
Luka Modric | 187 | 52 | 9 | 76 | 93 | 87 | 0.063 |
Tom Huddlestone | 162 | 34 | 4 | 60 | 77 | 76 | 0.041 |
Mousa Dembélé | 138 | 46 | 6 | 68 | 112 | 59 | 0.064 |
Roman Pavlyuchenko | 120 | 41 | 15 | 144 | 107 | 153 | 0.087 |
Scott Parker | 116 | 32 | 8 | 119 | 94 | 131 | 0.058 |
Aaron Lennon | 101 | 34 | 13 | 152 | 101 | 159 | 0.085 |
Michael Carrick | 100 | 22 | 6 | 95 | 75 | 125 | 0.063 |
Gylfi Sigurdsson | 97 | 36 | 10 | 110 | 114 | 105 | 0.094 |
Younes Kaboul | 95 | 21 | 5 | 64 | 71 | 73 | 0.082 |
Andros Townsend | 82 | 22 | 3 | 105 | 102 | 106 | 0.035 |
Steed Malbranque | 75 | 21 | 96 | 0.058 | |||
Kyle Walker | 73 | 13 | 4 | 117 | 64 | 226 | 0.047 |
Sandro | 73 | 17 | 3 | 89 | 86 | 119 | 0.046 |
Benoit Assou-Ekotto | 64 | 14 | 4 | 154 | 81 | 172 | 0.041 |
Jermaine Jenas | 50 | 11 | 3 | 95 | 75 | 129 | 0.063 |
Michael Dawson | 48 | 12 | 4 | 99 | 81 | 125 | 0.084 |
Jan Vertonghen | 48 | 14 | 4 | 117 | 97 | 122 | 0.071 |
Robbie Keane | 46 | 23 | 8 | 100 | 117 | 89 | 0.174 |
Paulinho | 38 | 13 | 1 | 25 | 101 | 23 | 0.106 |
William Gallas | 36 | 11 | 4 | 65 | 78 | 79 | 0.170 |
Steven Caulker | 35 | 14 | 4 | 90 | 116 | 83 | 0.128 |
Kyle Naughton | 31 | 9 | 110 | 0.035 | |||
Roberto Soldado | 25 | 8 | 1 | 30 | 85 | 36 | 0.132 |
Ledley King | 25 | 5 | 2 | 78 | 65 | 132 | 0.103 |
Obviously players from this season we know have been terrible at finishing. With under 50 shots total in the database, we should be very careful about drawing conclusions. Player shooting skill only starts to raise its head above the noise at samples well over 100 shots. But there you go.
End data dump.