The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
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Book Details
Author(s)
Chris Anderson, David Sally
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN / ASIN
0143124560
ISBN-13
9780143124566
Category
Games
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding and winning the most popular sport on the planet.
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player s value be judged? they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.
Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player s value be judged? they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer.
