Football Rumour Statistics for UK Newspapers

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Here football transfer league shows you the stats behind all those rumours that the papers produce. Currently showing paper accuracy and average rumours produced (per day). Any interesting statistics that you think we are missing, please drop us a line.

Rumour Accuracy
Newspaper	Right	Total Num	Accuracy
The Guardian	205	599	34.2%
Daily Record	187	551	33.9%
The Scotsman	8	28	28.6%
The Independent	169	600	28.2%
The Times	308	1124	27.4%
Daily Telegraph	153	562	27.2%
The Herald	22	81	27.2%
The Express	328	1349	24.3%
Daily Star	474	2145	22.1%
The Sun	769	3492	22%
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Info: Figures are based on all rumours we have that have been resolved (player has transfered or signed a new contract). FTL rumour data goes back to the start of summer 2006 transfer window.

Average rumours produced
Newspaper	Average number
News Of The World	5.65
Daily Mirror	3.09
The People	2.9
The Sun	1.94
Daily Mail	1.83
Daily Star	1.02
The Express	0.64
The Times	0.53
Daily Record	0.31
The Independent	0.29
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Info: On average how many rumours do each paper produce a day. Again using all rumours from the start of summer 2006 transfer window.

User Rating
Newspaper	User Rating
The Guardian	3.5 (16009 votes)
Daily Telegraph	3.4 (16004 votes)
The Independent	3.4 (11935 votes)
Metro	3.4 (12702 votes)
Daily Mail	3.4 (93295 votes)
Daily Mirror	3.4 (130732 votes)
The Sun	3.4 (81574 votes)
The Times	3.4 (22710 votes)
The Scotsman	3.3 (148 votes)
Daily Record	3.3 (4522 votes)
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Info: This is the average beysian estimate of the user rating for rumours produced by the newspaper. This rating only includes football transfer rumours that have at least 2 votes.

Current Date
05/Feb/2012

Next transfer window
26/May/2012

110 days till next football transfer window

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January transfer window now shut. Big thanks to Harry Redknapp for taking advantage of the day, with Saha in and Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Pienaar, Bassong out of Spurs.