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Actually, doesn't more attacking football make us more likely to score first? Meaning fewer opportunities to win from behind? The dependencies of this statistic are so intertwined it's making my head spin.

Of course you're right - if anything, the Championship is pretty much definable as 'the league where anyone can beat anyone'. However it is inarguable that a team is more likely to get a better result against teams lower in the table, and more likely to get a worse result against those at the...

Yeah I'll accept that. Though I would suggest that Gus' interpretation of 'expansive' is likely to be somewhat less effusive that yours or mine (notwithstanding the excellent team selection and subs on Saturday.) It seems that "more attacking" means "play two up top" in Uruguayan. To be clear...

I disagree. Firstly because the games in which we concede first are less likely to be the games in which we expect wins. Secondly because if we are going for the playoffs by definition the defence has to improve, meaning fewer occasions of us going behind.