Football statistics gone wrong
Football statistics gone wrong:
I don't want to give old Charlie too much of a hard time though - he really was a revolutionary in terms of data driven analysis. And many people still stand behind his findings. I'll leave it to you to make up your own mind:
Analysis of passing sequences, shots and goals in soccer, by Mike Hughes and Ian Franks (2007)
Invalid Interpretation of Passing Sequence Data to Assess Team Performance in Football: Repairing the Tarnished Legacy of Charles Reep, by Richard Pollard (2019)
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