As you probably know, I'm a big fan of communicating complex and statistical information graphically. So you won't be surprised to hear that I'm also a big fan of The Economist, the masters of the interesting and thought-provoking chart. Here's a graph from the magazine showing a ranking of "football wealth" based on the just released "Football Money League" report by consultancy Deloitte.

Following up on my post about shot creation versus shot conversion as measures of offensive production (see also the On Football post), here's a quick and dirty analysis of Premier League teams' ability to degrade opponents' shot frequency (measured by shots allowed) and shot accuracy (the ratio of shots on target to shots allowed).

Ever since I started calculating shot to goal ratios as well as conversion and accuracy ratios of teams' offensive (and defensive) production, I've been concerned that these ratios do not tell the full story of what happens on the field. Conversion, you may remember, is the ratio of goals to shots on target - that is, how many of the high quality chances teams generated actually resulted in goals: how good teams are at finishing.