How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer 20:22 - Oct 27 with 1577 views | NeiltheTaylor | There was no Opta back in 1950, no Total Shots Ratio, no Expected Goals. But there was Reep, who took it upon himself to attend every Swindon Town F.C. match that season – sometimes with a miner’s helmet on his head to better illuminate his notes – and meticulously scribble down play-by-play diagrams of how everything went down. More than 60 years before player-tracking cameras became all the rage in pro sports, Reep was mapping out primitive spatial data the old-fashioned way, by hand. Poring over all the scraps of data he’d collected, Reep eventually came to a realization: Most goals in soccer come off of plays that were preceded by three passes or fewer. And in Reep’s mind, this basic truth of the game should dictate how teams play. The key to winning more matches seemed to be as simple as cutting down on your passing and possession time, and getting the ball downfield as quickly as possible instead. The long ball was Reep’s secret weapon. “Not more than three passes,” Reep admonished during a 1993 interview with the BBC. “If a team tries to play football and keeps it down to not more than three passes, it will have a much higher chance of winning matches. Passing for the sake of passing can be disastrous.” http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-one-mans-bad-math-helped-ruin-decades-of | |
| Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 20:37 - Oct 27 with 1547 views | airedale | Don't knock it, Leicester won the PL last season last year using it. | | | |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 20:44 - Oct 27 with 1535 views | Groo | Maths not math, or has American ownership skewered the way it spelt. | |
| Groo does what Groo does best |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 20:46 - Oct 27 with 1527 views | longlostjack | I wonder what Bill Shankly would have made of that article. | |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:07 - Oct 27 with 1482 views | NeiltheTaylor | Or Garry Monk | |
| Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:09 - Oct 27 with 1471 views | union_jack |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 20:44 - Oct 27 by Groo | Maths not math, or has American ownership skewered the way it spelt. |
Plus: soccer, off of, realiZation. | |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:11 - Oct 27 with 1459 views | longlostjack |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:07 - Oct 27 by NeiltheTaylor | Or Garry Monk |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:24 - Oct 27 with 1436 views | trampie | England enjoying all the benefits of a home World cup [refs, moving semi-final venue, ghost goal etc] they played without wingers and without an injured talented centre forward. Seems this circumstance lead them to believe playing 4-4-2 with workman like players was the way to achieve success, 50 years later they still have not moved on. | |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:32 - Oct 27 with 1408 views | Loyal |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 21:07 - Oct 27 by NeiltheTaylor | Or Garry Monk |
He is the new Nick Cusack. | |
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The official inventor of the tit w@nk. | Poll: | Who should be Swansea number 1 |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 00:29 - Oct 28 with 1278 views | Shonky | When I first read that I thought it said " How one mans bad breath ruined decades of English Soccer" | |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 00:55 - Oct 28 with 1261 views | WarwickHunt |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 00:29 - Oct 28 by Shonky | When I first read that I thought it said " How one mans bad breath ruined decades of English Soccer" |
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 04:17 - Oct 28 with 1209 views | NeiltheTaylor |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 00:29 - Oct 28 by Shonky | When I first read that I thought it said " How one mans bad breath ruined decades of English Soccer" |
Haha - the Alex Ferguson story | |
| Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 14:56 - Oct 28 with 1070 views | Glyn1 |
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer on 20:44 - Oct 27 by Groo | Maths not math, or has American ownership skewered the way it spelt. |
You're complaining that an American article on an American website is written in American? | |
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