SaigonSaddler wrote:Neuromantic wrote:SheffieldSaddler wrote:How many clubs gave players Christmas day off?
Are they all unprofessional too?
I don't know - do yo have official numbers?
All I know is, Swindon were in and they won 4-1. All that matters. As someone above mentioned, even if it gave them 1% better match preparation - these fine margins count in football.
Utter Conjecture. And you a scientist too. Tut tut.
How do you know the break didn't improve Walsall and prevent a 7-1 reverse? According to some, That's all we should expect from Smith. :)
As I pointed our Mr. Saigon, even if it improved their performance by even 1% - that would have counted towards their victory.
I could have put it in terms of a principal component matrix, but then we would have had to measure all possible variables contributing to a 'victory'. We could then measure the variance of each extracted factor and find the eigenvalues/vectors of each component. However, for simplicity, I think it's quite easy to conclude that 3 hours more match preparation the day before a game is going to result in a better performance (albeit we don't know how much, and it won't always result in a victory).
the point is, that even if it did improve their performance by even the smallest of margins, then it was worth us going in.
I think that makes completely reasonable, logical sense.