#KeeperTopColourStats

Keeper Top Colour Stats

Update : Sunday 31 March 2024

All of this arises from a comment attributed to Petr Cech that orange is the best colour for a goalkeeper top because it changes the behaviour of other players around the box.

It has been a quiet start to 2024 for me but I added seven games during late March. Six were at the SW Peninsula Hop on Good Friday & Easter Saturday, followed by the Women's League Cup final at Molineux the next day. A good weekend for Blue (a 6-0 win for Ivybridge Town), Green (3 wins from 4 games with 2 clean sheets) and Black (a win with a clean sheet) and a bad one for Orange, Radioactive Bile (one defeat each) and Yellow (two defeats). Pink had a 0-0 draw.

So, from the last 296 games watched, the table is below. When I get to 300 it will be time to persuade someone to compute a Kruskal-Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance. I bet you can't wait.

	P	W	D	L	GC	CS	Pts	PPG
Red	13.5	6.5	2.0	5.0	15.0	4.5	29.0	2.148
Grey	81.5	39.0	18.0	24.5	127.5	26.0	137.5	1.687
Green	162.1	78.8	23.0	60.3	256.0	42.0	213.4	1.316
Blue	68.1	28.0	11.0	29.1	112.0	19.0	78.0	1.145
Radioactive Bile	32.0	13.0	2.0	17.0	58.0	8.0	23.0	0.719
Orange	85.2	31.7	15.0	38.5	139.5	16.5	53.1	0.623
White	4.9	1.0	1.0	2.9	6.0	1.0	3.0	0.612
Purple	33.0	11.0	6.0	16.0	66.0	9.0	18.0	0.545
Fire Cracker	4.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	7.0	1.0	2.0	0.500
Black	14.7	7.0	3.0	4.7	28.0	2.0	6.0	0.408
Pink	28.0	10.0	7.0	11.0	52.0	4.0	5.0	0.179
Maroon	8.0	3.0	1.0	4.0	15.0	1.0	0.0	0.000
Yellow	57.0	16.0	10.0	31.0	130.0	9.0	-27.0	-0.474

Based on conventional 3pts for a win, 1pt for a draw, but also -1pt for a goal conceded (GC) and +5pts for a clean sheet (CS). Colours ranked on a points per game (PPG) basis. The odd decimal places were caused either by half-and-half tops or sub keepers in a different colour. The Fire Cracker colour was suggested by the social media team at Dulux UK.

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