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The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know about Soccer Is Wrong Paperback - 2013
by Chris Anderson; David Sally
Summary
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.
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.
Details
- Title The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know about Soccer Is Wrong
- Author Chris Anderson; David Sally
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 6/30/2013
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2013-07-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780143124566 / 0143124560
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Pop Culture
- Library of Congress subjects Soccer - Mathematical models, Soccer - Statistical methods
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013011448
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.334
Media reviews
“Chris Anderson and David Sally have the ability to see football in a way few have before them. Be warned: THE NUMBERS GAME will change the way you think about your favorite team or player, and the way you watch the beautiful game.” – Billy Beane, Manager of the Oakland A’s and subject of Moneyball
"I learned a lot, and it's hard not to applaud a project that is bent on the disenchantment of football's internal conversations and archaic practices, while simultaneously acknowledging an ineradicable core of the unpredictable and random at its heart." - David Goldblatt, author of The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer for the Times Literary Supplement
“…North American soccer fans would do very well to pick up this book. It will not only help them understand the game better, but it will also stimulate new ways to analyze and think about the game.” – Forbes
“[This] is the book that could change the game forever.” – The Times (London)
“By any standards, this is a landmark book, scrupulously researched and bound to be influential.” – Booklist (starred review)
"I learned a lot, and it's hard not to applaud a project that is bent on the disenchantment of football's internal conversations and archaic practices, while simultaneously acknowledging an ineradicable core of the unpredictable and random at its heart." - David Goldblatt, author of The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer for the Times Literary Supplement
“…North American soccer fans would do very well to pick up this book. It will not only help them understand the game better, but it will also stimulate new ways to analyze and think about the game.” – Forbes
“[This] is the book that could change the game forever.” – The Times (London)
“By any standards, this is a landmark book, scrupulously researched and bound to be influential.” – Booklist (starred review)
“Witty and thoughtful…should appeal not just to soccer fans, but to readers of Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics.” – Kirkus Reviews
"Their rather innovative and revolutionary way of looking at the game makes for fascinating reading." - The Library Journal
“A highly original contribution to our understanding of what we are seeing at a match, their book is unbeatable” – The Independent on Sunday
“Pundits, armchair fans and professionals, will find that several of their long-cherished truisms are not true at all.” – The Guardian
“Superb” – GQ
Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2013, Page 14
- Choice, 02/01/2014, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2013, Page 0
- Library Journal, 09/01/2013, Page 116
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