So I was doing some random research on Premier League goals by country/continent etc. this season & did a little impromptu mini-guesstimania about it in the English Football Thread.

I might as well do a full game here for the 2017-2018 season stats.

NO RESEARCH ALLOWED OF ANY KIND, except you're welcome to read the posts in the English Football Thread about the game, & you're welcome to look at this table from this season:



All goal counts & country breakdowns exclude own goals. I am only tracking goals teams score in the other team's net. & all stats are for the '17-'18 season.

To play, just PM me a list of answers to the following questions by next Friday morning:

1) How many goals were scored in the Premier League during the 2017-2018 season?
2) What % of all goals scored in the Premier League were scored by an Englishman?
3) What were the top 5 countries in order in terms of goals scored?
4) What were the 6-10 countries in order in terms of goals scored?
5) Players from how many different countries scored goals?
6) List the continents in order of #s of goals scored by players from each (listed here in alphabetical order: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America)
7) Name a country that scored, but scored the lowest # of goals (if you pick a country that scored 1, you will get the best possible score, and if you pick a country that scored 0 you will get the worst possible score)
8) How many different players scored a Premier League goal last season?
9) Name a country with as close to 4 different goal scorers as you can (answers will be judged based on how many different goal scorers your country actually had)
10) How many goals did the 2nd most prolific continent score?

Any questions about scoring or anything else, feel free to ask me.

Cheers JM. Entry sent

That was the most fun i've had in ages lol. Can you do one of these every week!?

Literally just spent the last 2 and a half hours with pen and paper trying to work out all the answers haha! Questions 4,5,8 and 9 took the longest (Question 5 I took over an hour just thinking of countries with players i've heard of lol)

I'm sad to say doing this has been the highlight of my week so far lol

I don't understand what you're asking for in questions 3 and 4.

Question 3 is asking for the 5 countries which have had players who scored the most Premier League goals in 2017-2018, in order.

Question 4 is asking for the 5 countries which have scored the 6-10 most.

For example, if the question instead of "What were the top 5 countries in order in terms of goals scored?" was "What were the top 5 countries in the world in order of population?"

...you would want to send me a list of China/India/USA/Indonesia/Brazil for #3 & Pakistan/Nigeria/Bangladesh/Russia/Mexico for #4.

Answers will be judged based on how far from accurate they are. Like if your answer for #3 was India/Bangladesh/China/Brazil/USA your score would be 1+6+2+1+2=12. The lower the score, the better you'll do on the question.

Does this make it clearer, or more confusing?

Nope, that's perfect.

spent less than 2 minutes inning

this fact along with my general knowledge of football will be reflected in my score...

I'm pretty confident about 1,3,4,6,7 and 9 and maybe 10 as well so will be a bit gutted if i'm miles off on any of those lol

2, 5 and 8 were just educated guesses

4 day bump.

IN! Looking forward to the reveal.

8 in, 3 days left.

Any prizes for the wooden spoon? An actual wooden spoon?

The later the entry, the more suspicious I will be if they win.

Call me cynical

Revealing this tomorrow.

Probably revealing this in about an hour.

11 Entrants:

PeteBlow
BOIDS
PokerCrazy94
Duckburg
xander biscuits
sixfour
Bob Dobelina
DWetzel
KrazyKris
loosekanen
rtspurs

would be satisfied with that position in the final standings

1) How many goals were scored in the Premier League during the 2017-2018 season?



There were 991 goals scored in the Premier League last season (not counting the 32 own goals). The above-pictured goal was not one of them.

Question 1 Answer Table:

Entrant	Goals Guessed	Correct Answer	Difference	Score
PokerCrazy94	1000	991	9	11
KrazyKris	1001	991	10	10
Duckburg	976	991	15	9
BOIDS	950	991	41	7.5
xander biscuits	950	991	41	7.5
sixfour	945	991	46	6
rtspurs	1045	991	54	5
Bob Dobelina	892	991	99	4
loosekanen	1104	991	113	3
PeteBlow	1212	991	221	2
DWetzel	1215	991	224	1

confirmed more boring a sport than even I thought possible

2) What % of all goals scored in the Premier League were scored by an Englishman?



Of the 991 goals, 277 were scored by Englishmen, which equates to 27.95%. In the sample provided for this season, 28.57% were scored by Englishmen.

Question 2 Answer Table:

Entrant	% scored by England	Correct Answer	Difference	Score
Bob Dobelina	27%	27.95%	0.95%	11
KrazyKris	30%	27.95%	2.05%	10
PeteBlow	31%	27.95%	3.05%	8.5
loosekanen	31%	27.95%	3.05%	8.5
rtspurs	31.12%	27.95%	3.17%	7
PokerCrazy94	22%	27.95%	5.95%	6
DWetzel	21.30%	27.95%	6.65%	5
sixfour	37%	27.95%	9.05%	4
BOIDS	18%	27.95%	9.95%	3
Duckburg	38%	27.95%	10.05%	2
xander biscuits	14%	27.95%	13.95%	1

Scores through 2 Questions:

Entrant	Q1	Q2	Total
KrazyKris	10	10	20
PokerCrazy94	11	6	17
Bob Dobelina	4	11	15
rtspurs	5	7	12
loosekanen	3	8.5	11.5
Duckburg	9	2	11
BOIDS	7.5	3	10.5
PeteBlow	2	8.5	10.5
sixfour	6	4	10
xander biscuits	7.5	1	8.5
DWetzel	1	5	6

Nice, that's nice.

3) What were the top 5 countries in order in terms of goals scored?

Since Brazil & France tied, it was impossible to get a perfect score here. Ties were sorted by the median.

Rank	Country	Goals
1	England	277
2	Spain	68
3.5	Brazil	57
3.5	France	57
5	Belgium	56