The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know about Soccer Is Wrong

Anderson, Chris; Sally, David

ISBN 10: 0143124560 / ISBN 13: 9780143124566

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2013

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0143124560I2N00

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know ...
Verlag: Penguin Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: As New
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