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Football, as a more complex team game without a form of real possession, is largely about triangles. One such triangle might be the player currently touching the ball, the one about to receive it, and the off-ball player currently causing the greatest deformation in the defence’s shape. Triangles might replace ‘ball events’ as the key unit of
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Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
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I learned a lot from this: https://t.co/0HlP23b9Xh. (If you liked Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, @stevenstrogatz is quoted on the back saying that it's a "masterpiece" that's "nothing short of revolutionary".)
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