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Monday, January 21, 2013

The Ultimate Statistic for Predicting Match Outcomes

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I've been reading a lot of posts recently comparing two statistics, shots (S) and shots-on-target (SoT), for predicting match outcomes. ...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Football Vandalism

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Wikipedia defines vandalism as "ruthless destruction or spoiling of anything beautiful or venerable". There are many motivations ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

How Fantasy Football Explains the Stock Market

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Managing a fantasy football team is surprisingly similar to managing a stock portfolio. In both, you have a fixed budget to spend on a fixed...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

On Diving

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Another weekend of football comes with another set of questionable penalty decisions. In this post, I'd like to focus on two in particul...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

Nasri and Silva

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In today's match between Manchester City and Norwich City, one aspect that caught my attention was the influence of Samir Nasri. For onl...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Cheaty Divers

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Based on last weekend's match between Liverpool and Man City, one would have to say that Luis Suarez's reputation for diving is well...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

4-4-2 versus 4-2-3-1

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We have previously discussed on the fact that no top team plays a traditional 4-4-2 today and that the current version of the 4-4-2 played b...
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