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The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know about Football Is Wrong
[Paperback - 2014]
chris anderson
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Publisher: Penguin Uk | ISBN: 9780241963623 | Pages: 400
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Why does stopping a goal beat scoring one? Why do the best defenders rarely touch the ball? Why is ditching your worst player smarter than buying a superstar? In this myth-busting book, Chris Anderson and David Sally show that the normal football terms - goals, possession, points, transfer fees - can actually hinder how we understand the game. Instead, by diving deep into the data, they uncover hidden truths about what is really happening on the pitch. Wonderfully readable and counter-intuitive, The Numbers Game will win you plenty of pub arguments. After reading it you will never think about football in the same way again. 'Rush to read this book immediately. The game [you] love will take on new depth, colour and subtlety.' Ed Smith, The Times 'Pundits, armchair fans and professionals will find that several of their long-cherished truisms are not true at all.' Guardian 'Challenges everything we know about football.' 'Sportshour', BBC World Service 'A highly original contribution to our understanding of what we are seeing at a match . . . unbeatable.' Independent on Sunday

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Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.A pioneer of soccer analytics, Chris Anderson is the author of “The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong“, and Managing Partner of Anderson Sally LLC. A sought-after soccer industry advisor, Chris’s work focuses on using rigorous and appropriate analysis to acquire, manage, and build and sustain clubs in the context of global competition for talent and success. Before co-founding Anderson Sally, Chris was a professor at Cornell University; he has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Stanford, and the LSE, and has s taught management strategy at Cornell’s Johnson School of Management and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Anderson has been a frequent commentator on the use of analytics in football and Big Data in high performing organizations.At 17, Chris Anderson found himself playing in goal for a fourth division club in West Germany; today, he's a professor in the Ivy League at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. An award winning social scientist and football analytics pioneer, Anderson consults with leading clubs about how best to play the numbers game.

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