The Numbers Game : Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong by Chris Anderson (UK edition, paperback) - 9780241963623

The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals football's astonishing hidden rules Fully updated with a new World Cup chapter Football has always been a numbers game: 4-4-2, the big number 9 and 3 points for a win. But what if up until now we've been focusing on the wrong numbers? What if the numbers that really matter, the ones that hold the key to winning matches, are actually 2.66, 53.4, 50/50, and 0 > 1? What if managers only make a 15% difference? What if Chelsea should have bought Darr...