The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding — and winning — the most popular sport on the planet — now with a new afterword on the 2014 World Cup!
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.
- Author
- Chris Anderson, David Sally
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-312456-6
- EAN
- 9780143124566
- Genres
- sports, football, soccer, economics, science, amazon, cultural, history, business
- Release date
- 2013
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