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

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. Soccer For Skeptics : The Counter(s)-reformation -- Before The Match : The Logic Of Soccer Numbers. Riding Your Luck ; The Goal : Soccer's Rare Beauty ; They Should Have Bought Darren Bent -- On The Pitch : Soccer Intelligence And Why Less Can Be More. Light And Dark ; Piggy In The Middle ; The Deflation Of The Long Ball ; Guerrilla Soccer -- In The Dugout : Building Teams, Managing Clubs. O! Why A Soccer Team Is Like The Space Shuttle ; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Megrelishvili? ; Stuffed Teddy Bears ; The Young Prince -- After The Match Is Before The Match. Life During The Reformation. Chris Anderson And David Sally. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 325-360) And Index.