Official BBF 2014 World Cup Thread about all around football and samba
#221
Posted 2014-July-03, 02:58
http://fivethirtyeig...-is-impossible/
George Carlin
#222
Posted 2014-July-03, 03:15
gwnn, on 2014-July-02, 16:15, said:
Isn't that sometimes a bit of a liability? I have seen him take a number of low-percentage shots from 30+ meters out, where a well-timed Messi pass might be more likely to succeed (yet would perhaps not even give Messi credit for an assist). Obviously, I would have to watch hundreds of games whether my perception of percentages is true...I guess trying a shot that works 3% of the time is a good shot.
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#223
Posted 2014-July-03, 03:41
gwnn, on 2014-July-03, 02:58, said:
http://fivethirtyeig...-is-impossible/
This is fantastic. This is the first time I see an article on football based entirely on statistics with substance - and wow, quite a serious amount of content!
#224
Posted 2014-July-05, 04:43
#225
Posted 2014-July-06, 01:38
I wonder how the Argentina - Netherlands game will be watched in the living room of the Dutch royal family...
Rik
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#226
Posted 2014-July-06, 16:03
#227
Posted 2014-July-08, 12:15
#229
Posted 2014-July-08, 12:52
Cyberyeti, on 2014-July-08, 12:39, said:
Great! This means either I can celebrate a German win today, or Bayes' formula tells me I can probably complain about bad refereering! Win-win!
#230
Posted 2014-July-08, 12:54
George Carlin
#231
Posted 2014-July-08, 13:34
gwnn, on 2014-July-08, 12:54, said:
Caveat, I've not seen endless replays, I've only seen the incident once. I felt the Colombian thought Neymar was going to carry on moving away from him and jump, in fact Neymar stopped and stayed on the ground, I don't think it was intentional.
The previous game could have had the same problem, Fernandinho committed a borderline yellow/red card challenge in the first couple of minutes and didn't get a card, so Chile clobbered Neymar in the same way and nearly put him out at that stage.
Brazil should have had so many players booked in the first half v Colombia, the fouling would have had to stop, and Colombia might have had a chance to win the game.
That's without talking about the Croatia game.
#232
Posted 2014-July-08, 13:42
I don't know. I liked the football Brazil produced against Colombia, especially the
George Carlin
#233
Posted 2014-July-08, 13:50
gwnn, on 2014-July-08, 12:54, said:
My problem is not so much with the referees, but with FIFA. The number of yellow cards at this world cup is down by a big amount (2.89 per game versus 5.39 in 2006). That's clearly due to FIFA refereeing guidelines. I just can't wrap my head around experimenting with such a delicate balance at the most important event in world. It's mind-boggingly stupid.
P.S.: I am not claiming any conspiracy theories, and I didn't keep track of whether Brazil or Columbia got disadvantaged overall. But a number of times I thought "This used to be a yellow card!"
#234
Posted 2014-July-08, 14:00
gwnn, on 2014-July-08, 13:42, said:
I don't know. I liked the football Brazil produced against Colombia, especially the second half. I guess others were watching it with a notebook, writing up all the mistakes the evil conspiracy made to push the evil hosts through. I guess that is also a way of enjoying the game but it's not really for me. When it is blatant, I will notice it too but I prefer to watch the game.
Even the Brazilian journalists working temporarily with the BBC said that the referee was terrible and had to clamp down on what they did against Colombia. Apparently it's a very well known phenomenon with the Brazilian team, and you just have to show that you're the boss early as a ref or they keep doing it.
Another thing I didn't know that I got from those Brazilian journalists, you know the Brazilian commentary style where you get 20 seconds + of GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL, that apparently originated because the commentary positions were so far from the pitch that it gave the commentators a chance to work out who the hell had scored.
#235
Posted 2014-July-08, 14:00
George Carlin
#236
Posted 2014-July-08, 14:11
btw I noticed just at game time.....the house lost all power
#237
Posted 2014-July-08, 14:13
mike777, on 2014-July-08, 14:11, said:
btw I noticed just at game time.....the house lost all power
standard situation as usual. they stay cool.
#238
Posted 2014-July-08, 14:13
#240
Posted 2014-July-08, 14:26