Numbers Game Why Everything You Know about Soccer Is Wrong

Name: Numbers Game Why Everything You Know about Soccer Is Wrong
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ISBN: 9780143124566

ISBN-10: 0143124560

ISBN-13: 9780143124566

Edition: 2013

Authors: Chris Anderson, David Sally

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Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understandingand winningthe most popular sport on the planetInnovation 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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.30" wide x 7.99" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine and is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Long Tail, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award in 2006 and won the Loeb Award for the best business book in 2007. His next book, Free, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Northern California with his wife and five children.