@dingleburtdevTS @BinksLeeds raised on the podcast last week about the statistics of James Linington's reds. See images attached in both cases the clear outlier is James Linington in Reds given per game to Leeds. He is giving 0.57 reds per game to leeds. The average is 0.091

A measure of the spread of results is known as the standard deviation it essentially measures what is the average distance of any score from the mean. The standard deviation in this dataset is 0.131. James Linington is 4.351 standard deviations ABOVE the average.

Now this data is skewed (reds should be rare) so the data is not normally distributed meaning there are more data points on one side of the curve than the other. Standard deviations are more reliable with normally distributed data.

typically you would use a diff measure of most common result than the average in this case because the average is unduly influenced by outliers (James Linington is part of that average and drags it up) but using the median (middle value) or mode (most common value) the're both 0

So he would be even more of an outlier if i used a more appropriate measure to demonstrate how rare reds are....for reference in psychology any values above 1.65 standard deviations from the mean are considered outliers and problematic. JL is well over double this threshold.

had he been doing a psychological study I would remove his data assuming he had no idea what he was doing/did not understand the task or downright tried to be a problem.

Rant over.

For reference this sample was refs who have ref'd Leeds 5 times or more. #lufc #FA #EFL sort it out. See my thread on the penalty drought last season too which was statistically unbelievable.