re: New soccer book using sabermetrics

The book is a mass of cursory arguments that seem on their face to hold water, but upon a deeper analysis fall apart time and again. I agree with the home field advantage argument, but that wasn't the gist of "the whole book." Some of the stuff like the penalty kick chapter and the home field advantage stuff is very interesting. I just found the rest of it ridiculously easy to poke holes in the arguments. It's very much so a surface analysis. They conveniently gloss over facts that don't agree with their theories.