Football Transfer League wrote:Football Rumour Statistics for UK Newspapers
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 221 647 34.2%
Daily Record 191 561 34%
The Scotsman 8 28 28.6%
The Independent 180 631 28.5%
The Herald 23 81 28.4%
The Times 327 1199 27.3%
Daily Telegraph 176 655 26.9%
The Express 363 1457 24.9%
The Sun 862 3899 22.1%
Daily Star 507 2330 21.8%
Daily Mirror 1538 7255 21.2%
Daily Mail 921 4397 20.9%
News Of The World 286 1697 16.9%
The People 131 893 14.7%
Metro 83 717 11.6%
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 4.86
Daily Mirror 2.97
The People 2.56
The Sun 1.86
Daily Mail 1.8
Daily Star 0.95
The Express 0.6
The Times 0.49
Metro 0.29
Daily Telegraph 0.27
Daily Record 0.27
The Guardian 0.26
The Independent 0.26
The Herald 0.03
The Scotsman 0.01
Info: On average how many rumours do each paper produce a day. Again using all rumours from the start of summer 2006 transfer window.