Football Big Data: the problem of thinking

Football Big Data: The problem of thinking

Note: This sequence of articles is my translation of the chapters of theNumbers GameBook (watercress link http://book.douban.com/subject/12274063/).

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It's a simple question, whenever Americans talk about football. Would bring it up in a confused tone.

"Why did they do that?" ”

Dave and I were watching the Super League video collection and there was a scene that caught his eye. Not another dazzling technology, not a charming beauty, not a clumsy referee, but a thorough end of a very ordinary thing. Dave, like countless central defenders in front of him, was puzzled by the long throw throw-ins of Rory Delap.

Every time the Stoke City team gets the chance to throw in the penalty box within the throw distance, Delap will jog across the sideline. Dry the ball with his clothes, or at home. Use the towel that you have already put in handy. Then the ball is thrown into the forbidden area, so repeat.

As a formal goalkeeper. For me, the advantages of Delap's long distance throw are very obvious. I explained to Dave that the Stoke team is a pretty good team. But lack of pace and cleverness. What they have, however, is. Height.

Why not, when the ball is out of bounds, take advantage of this opportunity to create an opportunity at 0 cost. Why not correct your opponent to create a little damage? Looks like it's going to work.

But my answer doesn't satisfy Dave's curiosity. Instead led him to ask another logical question.

"But why isn't every team doing this?" ”

The answer is also quite obvious: not every team has a Rory Delap, a capable person who can throw a long-distance ball in the horizontal projection weak path, like a flying stone. Make the defender panicked. Make the keeper confused.

Dave. As a regular baseball pitcher, he changed tack this time: "But why can't you find someone like him?" or let one of the players practice lifting weights. Javelin and Hammer "

It is very obvious that there is a problem. Yes, Dave's question. Just like the inquisitive little children, more and more angry.

What's even more annoying is that I don't have a very good answer.

"You can play like a Stoke team," I countered, "assuming you have a delap and a lot of tall defenders."

But such a way is not very appealing.

Unless it is forced. You're not going to do that. ”

"Why?" Dave answered with overwhelming logic. "It seems to work."

”

And that's the truth. I can answer that. Like a frustrated father, there is only one word. Because ”

There are some things you don't want to do when you play football.

Because. Even a goal created by a throw-in is as valuable as a pass-made goal, but it seems that it is not so meaningful. Because, for a purists, that somehow is not worth it.

But Dave's never-ending question-why? Why? Constantly nagging me.

Assuming it's possible for the Stoke team, why didn't the other teams do it? Who's right? Stoke team, one of the three points in the Super League that year was scored by a throw-in team. Or someone else, who can no doubt feel that they are not necessary for Arsenal (Arsenal) to throw a throw-in ball over long distances. or unwilling to do so.

Why are there some things that others have not done?

Why is football carried out in its current way?

We are trying to answer these two big questions through our know-how and skills--I, as a political economist, Dave, as a behavioral economists, with a social scientist-like education, with goalkeeper and baseball pitcher experience, and our passion for sports and solving this problem. The result is in your hands: A book about football and numbers.

Football from the beginning is the number of games: 1-1,4-4-2, the big number 9, the sacred Number 10. That's not going to get. We don't want to change either. But "counters-reformation" quietly, which may make a set of numbers look more important: 2.66,50/50,53.4,<58<73<79, and 0>1, Will prove to be the essence of future football.

This is a book about the nature of football-goals. Randomness, strategic. Offensive and defensive, possessive. Superstars and weaknesses, development and training, red cards and substitutes, efficient Lingao. The dismissal and hiring of football managers-and their relevance to numbers.

Football Big Data: the problem of thinking