TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Christopher TI - The numbers game: why everything you know about soccer is wrong SN - 9780143124566 U1 - 796.33400727 20 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Penguin books KW - Fútbol KW - Métodos estadísticos KW - Modelos matemáticos KW - Juegos de pelota KW - Análisis multivariante N1 - Soccer for skeptics : the counter(s)-reformation --; Before the match : the logic of soccer numbers; Riding your luck; The goal : soccer's rare beauty; They should have bought Darren Bent --; On the pitch : soccer "intelligence" and why less can be more; Light and dark; Piggy in the middle; The deflation of the long ball; Guerrilla soccer --; In the dugout : building teams, managing clubs; O! Why a soccer team is like the space shuttle; How do you solve a problem like Megrelishvili?; Stuffed teddy bears; The young prince --; After the match is before the match; Life during the reformation N2 - Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers - a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions - How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player's value be judged? - they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer ER -