The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - Paperback
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The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - Paperback
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by Chris Anderson (Author), David Sally (Author)
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.Author Biography
Chris Anderson is a pioneer of soccer analytics and a professor at London School of Economics in the U.K. and Cornell University in the U.S.
David Sally is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: July 30, 2013