Full name: The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong

Authors: Chris Anderson, David Sally Year: 2013 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Non Fiction, Economics, Science Purchase/reserch links: eBooks.com Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780143124566 0143124560

Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding-and winning-the most popular sport on the planet - now with a new afterword on the 2014 World Cup! 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. Similar books: Inverting The Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson Soccernomics by Simon Kuper Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss A Few Seconds of Panic by Stefan Fatsis Forza Italia by Paddy Agnew The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden Paper Lion by George Plimpton Brilliant Orange by David Winner Monsters by Rich Cohen Collision Low Crossers by Nicholas Dawidoff War Room by Michael Holley Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano The Blind Side by Michael Lewis League of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard Complex Adaptive Systems by John H. Miller Mind to Matter by Dawson Church Deep by James Nestor