Statistics and the Form of the Soccer Match
Back in May, before I knew that academic statisticians were eavesdropping on my thoughts, I mused on Sport Is a TV Show that "judging the footballing abilities of two football teams is so difficult that football itself is often a bad way to do it." I was writing about matches that end in penalty shootouts, but the thought applies just as well to matches in which one team plays better than the other team but loses anyway.
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