Factoid of the Day: First and Second Half Goal Frequencies
Football statisticians have long known that scoring increases with match duration. For example, take a look at this graph from a 1998 paper by Mark Dixon and Michael Robinson in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society based on data from over 4,000 matches collected over in the top four divisions of English football over a four year period in the early to mid-1990s.
Soccer Quantified @ Apr 7, 2011 8:24 PM EDT | Blog Profile
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