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What football had not witnessed, Anderson and Sally felt, was an analytics revolution. Plenty of people were reading the numbers and taking note of what they said: these are the players who have sprinted the most, these are the number of shots we have taken and the rest. But nobody – as far as they could tell, at least – was trying to find out what
... See moreRory Smith • Expected Goals
In 1994, a football team discovered
a loophole so absurd, they broke the game.
They won the match by scoring an own goal.
ON PURPOSE.
What followed changed how we see
soccer and game theory forever.
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any time inside football soon discovered that just as oil was part of the oil business, stupidity was part of the football business.
Stefan Szymanski • Soccernomics
All of that drama, though, comes with a figurative asterisk. This season’s Premier League has been defined as much by turbulence off the field — points deductions, internecine bickering, legal disputes, fraud accusations and the looming threat of government intervention — as it has been by City’s (eventual) smooth sailing through it.