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But as yet few in the congregation have been listening. That defies the logic that bringing only great players suffices to form a great team. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Take up insurance. Please feel free to post any comments, notes etc. Now, you could get this impressive book merely here. In the same pattern while it’s easy to track ball events, it’s hard to track and evaluate off ball movements. This is a bias towards seeing what’s there and ignoring what’s not and it makes evaluation of defense really difficult.
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Anderson and Sally examined 8,232 matches in the major European leagues from 2005-2011 and found that the team that has more shots on target only wins between 50-58% of the time, depending on the country.
I recently got into soccer (less than a year) and I am still learning so much about it. Your weakest player will always have a great negative impact on the team and while there are ways to cope with this (hide him, improve him, sell him among others), it is not always that easy to accomplish. In a recent presentation to analysts at a summit in London, Anderson himself said: "I don't think football analytics has progressed as far as it could. Actually the facts tell us that no! The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals football's astonishing hidden rulesFootball has always been a numbers game: 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points for a win.
Personally the chapters I enjoyed the most and think are most valuable are two: The first focused on the importance and value we give to scoring goals (on a side note: actually the second goal we score and not the first is more important as it increases the team’s predicted point value by0.99) while at the same time we tend to ignore the importance of not conceding goals.
The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong (2013) On 5 September 2018 14 September 2018 By thefootballissues In Book Presentations. What the authors try to do is actually simple: gather up a lot of statistical data-after all we live in an age where gathering data is not a problem, rather is what to do with the data you have that matters- and see whether some conventional truths we hold dear are true after all. I'm Coaching Soccer - What rules, drills, and discipline do I need to know?
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