Sublime

any time inside football soon discovered that just as oil was part of the oil business, stupidity was part of the football business.

incentives.

incentives.

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

bookies.

companies have a strong incentive to exploit behavioral biases, including availability, unrealistic optimism, and anchoring.