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Telegram Sam
The idea I like most at the moment was examining how beneficial parachute payments are for recently relegated Championship clubs in their attempts to get back into the Premier League, and whether or not they have a distinct advantage over other clubs in the division who don't have access to these funds. I'd test this by looking over a 5-10 year period and seeing how well relegated clubs fared in their promotion challenge compared to those who hadn't come down from the Premier League and see if there was a correlation. I like this idea but fear it might be quite tough to gather all the data and could be pretty long-winded.
Any ideas?
RhylFCKiko
Telegram Sam
I like the idea but I feel like that would be a difficult idea to quantify.
VP.
Probably be impossible to do anyway.
Obtuse
Poe
Flash.
Telegram Sam
Yeah, that was my thinking. I'd find it interesting but it'd probably turn out to be a nightmare.
Flash.
Something like a comparison of money spent to points or attendance to points.
Or if you want to go a bit further looking into the GDP of the city in relation to attendance and points.
Remember 3,000 words isn't a lot, you can't be going into too much detail.
Shola
Why?
Parachute payments 2011-12:
Club Payment Position
West Ham £15.5m 3
Birmingham £15.5m 4
Blackpool £15.5m 5
Middlesbro £4m 7
Hull City £12m 8
Burnley £12m 13
Portsmouth £12m 22
Parachute payments 2012-13:
Club Payment Position
Hull City £8m 2
Burnley £8m 12
Blackpool £13m 14
Blackburn £16m 13
Bolton £16m 16
Wolves £16m 18
Birmingham £13m 20
Portsmouth £8m 22(L1)
Vercoe
Telegram Sam
That wouldn't really say or prove anything though.
Flash.
I meant more that if you wanted to go with the parachute payment idea, you'd really need to go into the finances of each club, which would be very difficult to get.
You can't just say 'X clubs were more successful because of parachute payments' without taking into consideration wages, match day income, rich owners, loans etc.
I'd try and stay away from anything involving clubs finances, there's too many variables.
Deano
Shola
Don't all clubs publish their accounts?
Pippadoc
I thought only public limited companies were obliged to publish their accounts and private limited companies didn't have to?
I don't know how many clubs are PLC and how many are LTD though.
Telegram Sam
Justicar
You could also look at minor things within that, so for example relation of the area to former industry. Do clubs up North do better than down South on average, considering all the above variables.
If course you need to reason that external investment is a factor (ie Man City) but it shouldn't really matter on a 3000 word assignment.
A few ideas, but I'm firmly in the discipline of History/Archaeology so maybe someone more acquainted with stats/economics with be able to offer something more worthwhile.
Telegram Sam
Thanks, there's a couple of great ideas in there. You're right about looking into club's finances, it'd only prove to be a pain.
TomDixon77
Franck
I was going to suggest that. For instance I know they covered the transfer/wage spending vs. results idea that came up earlier in the thread.
Justicar
Also I meant to mention attendances in that. That fits well with gdp and looking at population compared to it etc.
Telegram Sam
I haven't, unfortunately. I have to submit my proposal by 4pm tomorrow so don't have much time.
Telegram Sam
I'm thinking I could focus on the composition of Premier League squads and see how that relates to a side's performance in the league. I could see if sides with a higher percentage of British nationals perform better or worse than those with more foreigners, as well as seeing how the average age of squads relate to success. I could then compare these results from the 2011/12 season, for example, with the 2006/07 season, and see if trends have changed over the five years.
Any feedback or ideas as to how I could flesh this out a bit?
Telegram Sam
There's much discussion about how the influx of foreign players into the Premier League has diluted the quality of the national side as it stifles the progression of young English players coming through the ranks at top clubs. I could compare the Premier League with a few other top leagues in Europe (La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Serie A and the Eredivise, as a start) and see if there's a correlation between the ratio of nationals and foreigners and the success of the respective national sides in major tournaments. The results would be pretty interesting but I worry it might be tough getting accurate data for this study from years gone by.
Franck
That's one of the things covered by Why England Lose.