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The Numbers Game

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Numbers Game

By Chris Anderson, David Sally

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About the book

The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals football's astonishing hidden rulesFully updated with a new World Cup chapterFootball 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 bough...Show more

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ISBN

9780241963623

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2014

Language

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1

Original title

The Numbers Game

Format

Paperback

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