Bradley Johnson

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[quote user="Indy_Bones"]Really?You really have this little understanding of the stats and their actual knock on effects in game but want to start giving it the big one???You point out that BJ makes around 50% more passes than Tettey per game, but if instead of Johnson making those passes it was Tettey - we''d have a higher pass success rate overall.Johnson tends to shoot more than say Howson (approx anywhere from 25-50% more), yet despite this, generally has a lower conversion rate on those shots into goals, so again, if instead of Johnson taking the shot, it was given to Howson - we''d have a higher shot to goal conversion rate overall.For those who haven''t studied economics, it''s all about what''s called ''opportunity cost'', which in this case means that by bringing Johnson into the passing game more or encouraging him to shoot (even if his last two games have been productive in this area), the opportunity cost is that the better passers of the ball, and those better at shooting lose the opportunity to do so in order to enable Johnson - this is where I have an issue.You cannot simply use quantity of attempts to justify reasoning, because quantity is irrelevant if the quality is not up to standard. Imagine a scenario where you had two players, Player A has a 25% pass success rate, Player B has a 75% rate, if they both make the same number of passes (let''s use 50 for an example) then Player A only gets 12.5 successes per game compared to B''s 37.5, but as soon as you increase Player A''s passes to a much higher level, they can gain parity or even eclipse Player B overall (This means for example that Player A needs to attempt 150 passes per game in order to equal Player B).However, if instead of giving Player A those additional passes in order to equal Player B, we instead give them directly to Player B, then suddenly Player B is hitting 112.5 successful passes per game and our front line is in heaven!This is the ''opportunity cost'' I mentioned earlier, and sides who have players with top class passing generally tend to funnel their play through those players and use it as much as possible, so think Xavi and Iniesta at Barca or think Fabregas at Arsenal/Chelsea, those players see a lot of the ball and have very high pass success rates - even if it''s only a simple pass for most of the time - what their managers don''t do is tell the team to instead give the ball to Busquets, Wilshere or Matic...You also point out that Tettey makes more sideways or backwards passes, and you''re right that he probably does, but what he doesn''t tend to do in those situations is cheaply give possession away - something that Johnson became notorious for over the past couple of seasons.So despite your somewhat churlish response, there''s a little bit more ''context'' for the stats, and if you think the stats are wrong, then please use the form located here [url]http://www.whoscored.com/ContactUs[/url], and let the staff at WhoScored know that they''re talking utter ballcocks and that you know better...[/quote]You do require some context though as others have posted. For instance if you have player A who every time he has a shot hits an accurate but tame shot directly at the goalkeeper he is likely to have a high shot accuracy but rarely score a goal. However if you have player B who hits the ball hard and aims for the bottom corner every time he may counter-intuitively have a higher chance of scoring a goal even if he doesn''t find the target as often as player A.On a personal note I think both these players are better than Johnny Howson anyway who doesn''t tackle, doesn''t create chances and rarely scores either. 2 goals, 0 assists and 1.4 tackles a game last year (actually worse than Nathan Redmond for tackles). His passes per game were marginally worse than Tettey and Johnson as well. #FACT