The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-05-30 Pages: 384 Language: English The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals footballs astonishing hidden rulesFootball has always been a numbers game: 4-4-2. the big number 9 and 3 points for a win. But what if up until now weve been focusing on the wrong numbers What if the numbers that really matter. the ones that hold the key to winning matches. are actually 2.66. 53.4. 5050. and 0 1 What if managers only make a 15% difference What if Chelsea should have bought Darren BentIn this incisive. myth-busting book. Chris Anderson. former goalkeeper turned football statistics guru. and David Sally. former baseball pitcher turned behavioural economist. show that every shred of knowledge we can gather can help us to love football and understand it even more. Youll discover why stopping a goal is more valuable than scoring one. why corners...