Giroud 1st, Llorente 2nd, Kane 3rd
An interesting statistic from Whoscored, the best conversion rate in the Premier League last season with a minimum qualification entry of 10 goals.
Top PL Conversion Rates
1. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) 30.8%
2. Fernando Llorente (Swansea City) 28.8%
3. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 26.4%
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Left-footed 30-year-old (31 in September) French striker Olivier Giroud (he has 61 full international caps scoring 23 goals) played 1,194 minutes over 29 games and scored 12 Premier League goals with a further 4 assists. He scored a goal every 100 minutes and had a direct hand in a goal every 74.63 minutes.
Right-footed 32-year-old (33 next February) Spanish international striker Fernando Llorente (he has 24 full international caps scoring 7 goals) played 2,451 minutes over 33 games and scored 15 Premier League goals with a further 1 assist. He scored a goal every 163 minutes and had a direct hand in a goal every 153.19 minutes.
Right-footed 23-year-old (24 in July) England international striker Harry Kane (he has 17 full international caps scoring 5 goals) played 2.536 minutes over 30 games and scored 29 Premier League goals with a further 7 assists. He scored a goal every 87 minutes and had a direct hand in a goal every 70.44 minutes.
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BTW. Stats, with an 's' on the end, is plural ;-)
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Did a lot of media analysis bay on the 50's did you? Cool story bro.
Clearly Giroud is NOT an awful player. Almost as clearly, no-one said he was.
There was a point made that the blind misreading of stats that may confuse people into thinking he's a better player than he is, is not warranted. As was explained quite clearly in the preceeding comment (The one you chose to misinterpret so woefully).
"Giroud and Llorente are both target-men who add far less to the overall team than HK" was the point I got from that comment. Pretty bl**dy good target-men TBF, but not the all-round striker that HK is. One would generally expect a higher conversion rate from such players in the circumstances. The other figures quoted all show HK in a much stronger light, which fairly indicate that he contributes a great deal more than either of the other two. Playing minutes per goal is an extraordinary figure and he outclasses all others in that stat. I don't recall ever knowi…
He was also a great character. Not one that was always centre of attention, but one that had obviously matured by the time he was presenting regularly with Iain St John. I have a lot of respect for the man.
What I’ve noticed about WhoScored is that their conversion rate (both player & team) is calculated on total shots.
Now, what is the point of calculating a conversion rate if the shot is not on target?
Answer… there is no point, a shot off target cannot score so it’s addition to a conversion rate statistic is irrelevant!
Stats do not lie, their interpretation however leaves a lot to be desired…
Moving on…
Here is a table that calculates conversion rates given the number of shots on target/goals scored for the past season (scoring %)…
https://objective-football.blogspot.fr/2016/08/201617-main-table.html
You can play with the columns by clicking the headers to rearrange into best & worst.
Last season we were in the bottom 3 of the scoring % column as were MANU this season.
This season however, we are top of the SoTF p/90 with an average of 6.8 which partly explains why our conversion rate moved above the EPL average.
It’s a team game, isolating ind…