2022/23 End of Season Stats
May 8, 2023 23:01:57 GMT
Post by northwesthoop on May 8, 2023 23:01:57 GMT
QPR finish in 20th position on 50 points
This is a drop of 16 points and 9 places compared to last season
20th in the 2nd tier (40th out of the 92 football league teams) is QPR's worst finish in 17 years, since we finished 21st in 2006 - we also finished that season with 50 points.
It truly was a season of 2 halves - In the first 23 games we picked up 34 points. From the final 23 games we gained just 16 points.
We won just 4 of the last 30 games of the season.
2023/24 will be a record extending 9th consecutive season in the second tier of English football. We've never previously spent more than 7 seasons in a row at this level.
Without Reading's point deduction we would have finished 21st
We topped the table after 16 games and had fallen to 21st by game 40 but we never dropped into the bottom 3 at the end of any match day.
We were 6th at Christmas and had the biggest fall of any team who was 6th at Christmas since the turn of the century (previous worst was Coventry falling from 6th to 18th in 10/11)
We haven't been in the bottom 3 since September 2018
Gareth Ainsworth
Here is Ainsworth's record over his 13 games:
Won 3
Drawn 2
Lost 8
Scored 10
Conceded 25
0.85 points per game
Neil Critchley was picking up 0.73 points per game (11 games)
Michael Beale picked up 1.47 points per game (21 games)
Paul Hall was the 4th person to take charge of a QPR game this season, losing 3-0 at home to Burnley
We only kept 9 clean sheets all season (down from 14 last season)
With 71 goals conceded it means we have now conceded 70+ goals in 4 of the last 6 seasons.
Our goal difference of -27 is our worst at this level since our relegation season of 2000/01. We've had 16 seasons at this level since without having a goal difference as bad as this season.
Seny Dieng played every minute of every league and cup match. Sam Field also started every game this season.
Jake Clarke-Salter and Leon Balogun made a combined 32 appearances (16 each)... which is 9 appearances less than the 41 Yoann Barbet managed by himself last season
We received 87 yellow cards in the league but never had a player sent off
Sam Field received the most yellow cards (11) followed by Dickie, Dunne and Ireogbunam (all 7)
Luke Amos tops the charts for points picked up per appearance (1.52) and he is far ahead of 2nd placed Osman Kakay (1.28) and 3rd placed Lyndon Dykes (1.25). Clarke-Salter and Laird make up the top 5.
At the other end of the scale Taylor Richards is bottom for points per appearance (0.60 from 16 games) with Chris Martin (0.68 / 16 games), Jamal Lowe (0.70 / 20 games) making up the bottom 3 players.
We only won 13 games - our lowest total in a 46 game season since 2005/06 (12 wins)
GOALS:
44 goals scored is QPR's lowest total in The Championship since we scored just 42 in 2008/2009
Since our 2015 relegation our previous lowest total had been 53 goals scored
Lyndon Dykes ends the campaign as top scorer with 8 goals > it is the first time since 2018/19 that we've not had a top scorer in double figures
No QPR player has scored in consecutive games since August, when Chair and Willock both scored against Watford and Hull
We failed to score in 18 of the 46 league games (39.13%) - exactly twice as many blanks as last season
QPR didn't score more than 3 goals in a game all season (and we haven't even done that since October) - We last scored 4 in a game against Reading in January 2022 (a run of 66 games).
It is the first single season in which we haven't scored 4 in at least 1 league game since 2012/13, that season being in the Premier League. In the second tier you have to go back to our 2001 relegation season for the last time we went a whole season without scoring 4 in a game (that campaign we actually didn't even score 3 in a league game)
Ilias Chair tops the assist charts with 9, but the only other players to make it beyond 2 assists were Johansen (6) and Paal (4)
HOME & AWAY
QPR end the season with a club record 12 home league defeats
We lost twice as many games at home as we won, and actually got more points away (27) than at home (23)
Only Wigan had a worse home record (22 points compared to our 23) but we both conceded a league leading 35 at home
We actually ranked a respectable 12th in the table for away form, but 23rd at home.
We only won 1 of the last 15 home games (Watford)
We only scored 5 goals at the Loft end all season and 2 of them were penalties
This is a drop of 16 points and 9 places compared to last season
20th in the 2nd tier (40th out of the 92 football league teams) is QPR's worst finish in 17 years, since we finished 21st in 2006 - we also finished that season with 50 points.
It truly was a season of 2 halves - In the first 23 games we picked up 34 points. From the final 23 games we gained just 16 points.
We won just 4 of the last 30 games of the season.
2023/24 will be a record extending 9th consecutive season in the second tier of English football. We've never previously spent more than 7 seasons in a row at this level.
Without Reading's point deduction we would have finished 21st
We topped the table after 16 games and had fallen to 21st by game 40 but we never dropped into the bottom 3 at the end of any match day.
We were 6th at Christmas and had the biggest fall of any team who was 6th at Christmas since the turn of the century (previous worst was Coventry falling from 6th to 18th in 10/11)
We haven't been in the bottom 3 since September 2018
Gareth Ainsworth
Here is Ainsworth's record over his 13 games:
Won 3
Drawn 2
Lost 8
Scored 10
Conceded 25
0.85 points per game
Neil Critchley was picking up 0.73 points per game (11 games)
Michael Beale picked up 1.47 points per game (21 games)
Paul Hall was the 4th person to take charge of a QPR game this season, losing 3-0 at home to Burnley
We only kept 9 clean sheets all season (down from 14 last season)
With 71 goals conceded it means we have now conceded 70+ goals in 4 of the last 6 seasons.
Our goal difference of -27 is our worst at this level since our relegation season of 2000/01. We've had 16 seasons at this level since without having a goal difference as bad as this season.
Seny Dieng played every minute of every league and cup match. Sam Field also started every game this season.
Jake Clarke-Salter and Leon Balogun made a combined 32 appearances (16 each)... which is 9 appearances less than the 41 Yoann Barbet managed by himself last season
We received 87 yellow cards in the league but never had a player sent off
Sam Field received the most yellow cards (11) followed by Dickie, Dunne and Ireogbunam (all 7)
Luke Amos tops the charts for points picked up per appearance (1.52) and he is far ahead of 2nd placed Osman Kakay (1.28) and 3rd placed Lyndon Dykes (1.25). Clarke-Salter and Laird make up the top 5.
At the other end of the scale Taylor Richards is bottom for points per appearance (0.60 from 16 games) with Chris Martin (0.68 / 16 games), Jamal Lowe (0.70 / 20 games) making up the bottom 3 players.
We only won 13 games - our lowest total in a 46 game season since 2005/06 (12 wins)
GOALS:
44 goals scored is QPR's lowest total in The Championship since we scored just 42 in 2008/2009
Since our 2015 relegation our previous lowest total had been 53 goals scored
Lyndon Dykes ends the campaign as top scorer with 8 goals > it is the first time since 2018/19 that we've not had a top scorer in double figures
No QPR player has scored in consecutive games since August, when Chair and Willock both scored against Watford and Hull
We failed to score in 18 of the 46 league games (39.13%) - exactly twice as many blanks as last season
QPR didn't score more than 3 goals in a game all season (and we haven't even done that since October) - We last scored 4 in a game against Reading in January 2022 (a run of 66 games).
It is the first single season in which we haven't scored 4 in at least 1 league game since 2012/13, that season being in the Premier League. In the second tier you have to go back to our 2001 relegation season for the last time we went a whole season without scoring 4 in a game (that campaign we actually didn't even score 3 in a league game)
Ilias Chair tops the assist charts with 9, but the only other players to make it beyond 2 assists were Johansen (6) and Paal (4)
HOME & AWAY
QPR end the season with a club record 12 home league defeats
We lost twice as many games at home as we won, and actually got more points away (27) than at home (23)
Only Wigan had a worse home record (22 points compared to our 23) but we both conceded a league leading 35 at home
We actually ranked a respectable 12th in the table for away form, but 23rd at home.
We only won 1 of the last 15 home games (Watford)
We only scored 5 goals at the Loft end all season and 2 of them were penalties
