Why - Football transfer rumours, love them or loathe them? Its always great to hear rumours of great players possibly signing for your club or perhaps ones you dont like leaving. But then so many of these rumours are absolute rubbish, just made up to fill the back pages of the papers! Here at www.baaball.co.nr we thought that we might be able to show stats about all these rumours, to show popular players and clubs and maybe even workout which papers do spout the most crap!
How - Currently we rely on the BBC football gossip page for information on which paper is telling which rumour. This gives rise to the following items:-
* If the BBC miss a rumour we miss it, so these stats are obviously not 100% perfect.
* If a rumour is listed in all or nearly all papers, the BBC list the source as 'various'. In this case we do not record the rumour as there is no clear source.
* The BBC rumours page (and the papers they come from) only show 'big money' transfers. So there is a lack of lower league transfer activity.
* Not all rumours suggest a transfer fee, so not all rumours have an amount associated.
* We do not record gossip of transfers 'not happening' eg. 'so and so denies links to football club x'.
All of this of course isnt very scientific, but hey the site is for fun! Well hopefully that clears up how we get and treat the rumour information.
We will be looking to expand the site further as soon as we get a chance, already on the cards are further papers stats to see which papers are getting the rumour scoops and which are making stuff up! Drop us a line if you have any comments or suggestions, get in touch with us at FTL here
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