Futuros Clasicos: El Futbol Es Asi! (Soccernomics) : Una Explicacion Economica Sobre los Mitos y Verdades del DePorte (Paperback)

from Othemts

A soccer writer and an economist bring a sabermetrics/Freakonomics approach to global soccer. Issues covered include: That England based on their experience, population, and other demographics they are actually not underachievers but win more often than they should. The authors also give some tip...

from jrcovey

If you love both soccer and math as I do, or you simply want to acquire a rational framework for understanding why various national teams succeed and fail at the beautiful game, you owe it to yourself to read Kuper and Szymanski. This updated edition is well timed to be the ideal contextual read ...

from jpkaye

Well, it's not Moneyball for football (UK & Europe). It starts as a good read, with some humour and some nice expositions of football topics, but the later chapters get bogged down in rather pointless discussions about which countries like football the most, and variations on this theme: once was...

from TomMcGreevy

A useful book pointing to global trends that seem undeniable but at the end-of-the-day each game in knockout tournaments remains unpredictable given the vagaries of day-to-day performance and officiating inconsistencies. A global enterprise? Certainly. Best team wins? A posteriori.

from eglinton

Someone was always going to apply the 'Moneyball' -style anaylsis to football, and likewise the not-totally-unprecedented Freakonomics- inspired techniques of, err looking at the facts behind common assumptions, and here come co-authors clearly well qualified to take on both tasks in one go. And ...