In all honesty, I don't see where/how that knowledge/metric would be either useful or applicable. The sheer scope of a contextualized metric like you suggest simply seems impractical to me.

Too much of soccer is instinctual to be quantified. Maybe there are a handful of players on another intellectual level who see the field as quadrants and players as cones, and play the ball or make a run based on crude statistical probability. But by and large, I feel like players simply make the logical pass or run, and having a stat that predicts that just seems worthless to me.

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Posted by crazy4lsu

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Posted on 7/29/13 at 1:33 pm to LSUSOBEAST1

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In all honesty, I don't see where/how that knowledge/metric would be either useful or applicable. The sheer scope of a contextualized metric like you suggest simply seems impractical to me.

Ha, I didn't mean to I imply my example was meant to be applicable. I was simply thinking through a process by which you could account for variables and determine which are the most important.

I also agree on the instinctual part. Since the game is fluid, muscle memory and instinct are paramount in the sport. But people who insist upon statistical analysis will still break down decision making. I'm actually on your side with this, as I don't believe you can actually develop a comprehensive metric for the sport that reinforces what you see and accurately predicts the future. Again statistical analysis in soccer can tell us why things happened in the past but not in the future.

If we want to really understand future events, we would have to study decision making processes and no Economist is really interested in that.

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