The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
by Chris Anderson, David Sally
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- 9780143124566
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Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understandingand winningthe most popular sport on the planet Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbersa 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 questionsHow 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.
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- Title
- The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong
- Author
- Chris Anderson, David Sally
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0143124560
- ISBN 13
- 9780143124566
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Date Published
- July 2013
- Pages
- 384
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