Papers' Football Rumour Statistics

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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.

Papers Rumour Accuracy
Newspaper	Right	Total Num	Accuracy
Daily Record	163	510	32%
The Guardian	151	494	30.6%
The Independent	146	549	26.6%
The Times	260	978	26.6%
The Herald	19	74	25.7%
The Express	265	1185	22.4%
Daily Telegraph	98	451	21.7%
The Scotsman	6	28	21.4%
The Sun	596	2863	20.8%
Daily Star	371	1889	19.6%
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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
Paper	Average number
News Of The World	6.95
The People	3.12
Daily Mirror	3.05
The Sun	2.16
Daily Mail	1.64
Daily Star	1.22
The Express	0.77
The Times	0.63
Daily Record	0.38
The Independent	0.36
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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.

Papers' user rating
Newspaper	User Rating
The Scotsman	3.4 (23 votes)
The Guardian	3.4 (580 votes)
Daily Telegraph	3.4 (744 votes)
The People	3.3 (664 votes)
Daily Mail	3.3 (1975 votes)
Daily Record	3.3 (245 votes)
News Of The World	3.3 (2221 votes)
The Sun	3.3 (2466 votes)
Daily Mirror	3.3 (4576 votes)
Daily Star	3.2 (2119 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
30/Jul/2010

Transfer window closes
31/Aug/2010

32 days till close of football transfer window

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