Clean Sheets, Corners and Cards — What’s More Important?

Soccer By the Numbers has a great post on the value of corners which raised an interesting point about the importance of different statistical measures. Â One of the problems with trying to build regression models for soccer is that few of the variables are independent. Â For example, if you want to look at the relationship corners and shots have on wins, it gets a bit tricky.

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