For this season, Alli has had a couple of appearances where he did not start and came on for 23 minutes in each, so that swings this season slightly in his favour if we assume we are picking Alli during a period where he is nailed on in Pochettino's mind, (like currently say, where we know that Poch is going to 100% start Alli as he is performing so well).Archy wrote:I'm completely open minded about this and am happy to be persuaded either way, but how have you reached the conclusion that Alli has a superior points record than Eriksen?
I can see that both have 121 points this season from 19 appearances.
Eriksen got 178 last year from 35 appearances and Alli got 166 from 33 appearances.
There may be some nuances behind those stats, but to me it doesn't seem certain at all that the results clearly prove Alli is superior, which seems to be the foundation of your argument?
Also, If we are going to talk about consistentcy, how about looking at it from another angle: Eriksen looks pretty much nailed on for 90 minutes each week (he has only missed 9 minutes in total from the last 16 games) whereas Alli is much more prone to missing game time or being subbed off early (perhaps because he is less robust and more injury prone?). This in my mind reinforces Eriksen as the more "solid" choice.
As for last season, I wasn't aware of the appearances that the minutes were broken down into, (Alli had a few sub appearances at the start of the season where he was gradually breaking into the team and establishing himself, whereas Eriksen was already an established starter going into the season). So as a result I have just looked at a points per minute perspective and Eriksen's from last season was 0.061, and Alli's was 0.067. So Alli's points per game/appearance would have been more favourable had he gone into the season already established imo.
So Eriksen has a ppm of 0.061 last season and 0.069 this season.
Alli has a ppm of 0.067 last season and 0.079 this season.
So during a period where we feel that Alli is fit and will start, then he is the better pick imo. During period's where Alli, (and Spurs in general), have been poor for a while, he might start to get dropped more readily over Eriksen, and so we should be transferring him out.