Stoke City: You figure it out – Stoke's 2011/12 season in numbers
56: The number of matches Stoke have played since July. It is the 10th busiest season in the club's history. The lung-busting 70-game 1971/72 campaign ended with four matches in the Anglo-Italian Cup.
2: Stoke finished as the second Midlands club for their 10th time in their history. The Potters have never been first. West Bromwich Albion came out on top for the first time since 1969.
21,038: Miles covered by the Potters on the road in league and cup this season. That's 16,324 more than in 2010/11.
30.96: In miles per hour, the velocity of Peter Crouch's 25-yard wonder volley against Manchester City.
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0.95: Goals per league game. The fourth lowest average in the club's history in year's when Stoke haven't been relegated – higher than 1971/72 (0.93).
15: Goals from open play in the league.
1.44: Goals per cup game. That works out at 1.1 goals on average over the whole 56 matches.
10: Consecutive matches in English football's top 10 (from December 4, 2011 to January 31, 2012). Stoke's longest stretch since 1982.
3: Robert Huth's attempted passes in the 3-2 home defeat to Queens Park Rangers. Thought by stats gurus to be the lowest in Premier League history. Two were successful.
5,000: Stoke fans in Valencia. A conservative estimate by the club.
57: Yellow cards and two reds. The cleanest season since Stoke returned to the top flight in 2008 ... yet they still finished of bottom the Premier League's bizarrely-calculated fair play table. By the way, Arsenal accrued 61 yellows and four reds.
71: The total number of Stoke appearances from the bench by Ricardo Fuller, now the most used substitute in the club's history after overtaking Karl Henry (61).
27,789: The Britannia Stadium crowd against Bolton was Stoke's highest since returning to the top flight. The average attendance of 27,225 was the club's highest since 1963/64, Stoke's first season in the top flight under Tony Waddington. The sixth highest in Stoke's history.
4: Kenwyne Jones became Stoke's joint record scorer in competitive matches against continental opposition, drawing level with prolific Anglo-Italian Cup marksman Martin Carruthers.
97: Stoke were the only Premier League team to have fewer than 100 shots on target all season. A further 286 efforts missed the mark.
3: Stoke are the only club in the country to play in the FA Cup quarter-finals in each of the past three seasons. Before 2009/10, City had not reached that stage since 1972.
Compiled by PETER SMITH
Comments
by Davejjohnson
Wednesday, May 16 2012, 9:19PM
“Oops, typing error. This season was 36 goals in 38 games.”
by Davejjohnson
Wednesday, May 16 2012, 9:18PM
“Let me explain Mel. The point that Pottedrengen is making is that in our League Cup winning season what is often considered to be our best ever side had a worse goal to game ratio than our present side. This season we scored 38 in 38 games, in 71/72 we scored 39 in 42 games. So according to the logic that you and your mate Soccerfoot apply that makes them a worse team than the current one because they could not score enough goals.”
by Pottedrengen
Wednesday, May 16 2012, 6:13PM
“"0.95: Goals per league game. The fourth lowest average in the club's history in year's when Stoke haven't been relegated – higher than 1971/72 (0.93)."
Now tell me what it is you don't understand.”
by stonemel
Wednesday, May 16 2012, 5:08PM
“I'm trying to understand what you are on about here Pottedrengan but it makes little sense with refering to the ration between what?
"The interesting statistic for me is the 0.95 ration and its reference to it being higher than the 1971/72 season."”
by Pottedrengen
Wednesday, May 16 2012, 2:18PM
“The interesting statistic for me is the 0.95 ration and its reference to it being higher than the 1971/72 season. Everyone - me included - talks about that season as the most glorious Stoke has ever played in terms of entertaining football, not to mention the fact that we won our only major honour in 149 years. Yet here statistics beg to differ.
Of course statistics and goal ratio say nothing about the quality of the performances.”
by stonemel
Tuesday, May 15 2012, 4:43PM
“What a lots of Dog's Do!!!
Why don't they add on the reserve team fixtures and the Academy fixtures too.
It is not how many games the club plays that affects a season. It is how many games an individual player plays and if you look at Appearance statistics this year and in previous seasons and compare you will clearly see that individual players have mainly played this year compared to last season so don't keep throwing this absolute nonsense to us.”
by Colll
Tuesday, May 15 2012, 1:41PM
“They are supposed to be physically fit, are looked after by top coaches, physio's and nutritionists, they travel first class and stay in luxury hotels, and have played an average of 3 games every 2 weeks.
My heart bleeds.”
by magnum57
Tuesday, May 15 2012, 10:38AM
“Zzzzzzzz.”