The numbers game
Subtitle: why everything you know about soccer is wrong
By: Chris Anderson and David Sally
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780143124566
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Soccer for skeptics : the counter(s)-reformation; title: Before the match : the logic of soccer numbers.; title: Riding your luck; title: The goal : soccer's rare beauty; title: They should have bought Darren Bent; title: On the pitch : soccer "intelligence" and why less can be more.; title: Light and dark; title: Piggy in the middle; title: The deflation of the long ball; title: Guerrilla soccer; title: In the dugout : building teams, managing clubs.; title: O! Why a soccer team is like the space shuttle; title: How do you solve a problem like Megrelishvili?; title: Stuffed teddy bears; title: The young prince; title: After the match is before the match.; title: Life during the reformation