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A goalkeeper leans back and launches the ball downfield. A striker, already sprinting, gives chase. He is one of the fastest human beings on the planet, and he loses. He always loses. The ball, struck once, travels three or four times faster than the quickest man alive, and in that quiet, humiliating fact lies the first hidden law of soccer.
This is a detective story about the world’s most watched game, told by two men who could not agree about it. One spent his life inside the sport, in dressing rooms and negotiations, trusting his eyes. The other arrived from the cold country of formulas and systems, trusting his data. Together they set out to answer a single, dangerous question: does soccer obey hidden laws, or is its beauty precisely that it obeys none?
What follows is an honest investigation, which means it is full of dead ends. Some of the theories in this book are ironclad and provable. Others—the most beautiful ones—collapse the moment the authors finally test them against real matches, undone again and again by the same dull, unglamorous suspect: the simple question of where the ball happens to be. There are no equations here, only their shadows: the ideas made visible through story, argument, and the running quarrel between a man of the field and a man of the numbers.
Out of the wreckage, something hard survives. A number that governs the game. A signal that decides who wins the moment before anyone knows the moment has begun. A crack that spreads through a team like a rumor after a conceded goal. By the last page you will not only see soccer differently—you will have learned the rarer trick the game teaches by accident: how to tell a truth that has been measured from a beautiful story that has merely been declared.
Keywords: soccer, sports science, complex systems, prediction, psychology, tactics, information
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A goalkeeper leans back and launches the ball downfield. A striker, already sprinting, gives chase. He is one of the fastest human beings on the planet, and he loses. He always loses. The ball, struck once, travels three or four times faster than the quickest man alive, and in that quiet, humiliating fact lies the first hidden law of soccer.This is a detective story about the world's most watched game, told by two men who could not agree about it. One spent his life inside the sport, in dressing rooms and negotiations, trusting his eyes. The other arrived from the cold country of formulas and systems, trusting his data. Together they set out to answer a single, dangerous question: does soccer obey hidden laws, or is its beauty precisely that it obeys none?What follows is an honest investigation, which means it is full of dead ends. Some of the theories in this book are ironclad and provable. Others-the most beautiful ones-collapse the moment the authors finally test them against real matches, undone again and again by the same dull, unglamorous suspect: the simple question of where the ball happens to be. There are no equations here, only their shadows: the ideas made visible through story, argument, and the running quarrel between a man of the field and a man of the numbers.Out of the wreckage, something hard survives. A number that governs the game. A signal that decides who wins the moment before anyone knows the moment has begun. A crack that spreads through a team like a rumor after a conceded goal. By the last page you will not only see soccer differently-you will have learned the rarer trick the game teaches by accident: how to tell a truth that has been measured from a beautiful story that has merely been declared. Keywords: soccer, sports science, complex systems, prediction, psychology, tactics, information This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185869819
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A goalkeeper leans back and launches the ball downfield. A striker, already sprinting, gives chase. He is one of the fastest human beings on the planet, and he loses. He always loses. The ball, struck once, travels three or four times faster than the quickest man alive, and in that quiet, humiliating fact lies the first hidden law of soccer.This is a detective story about the world's most watched game, told by two men who could not agree about it. One spent his life inside the sport, in dressing rooms and negotiations, trusting his eyes. The other arrived from the cold country of formulas and systems, trusting his data. Together they set out to answer a single, dangerous question: does soccer obey hidden laws, or is its beauty precisely that it obeys none?What follows is an honest investigation, which means it is full of dead ends. Some of the theories in this book are ironclad and provable. Others-the most beautiful ones-collapse the moment the authors finally test them against real matches, undone again and again by the same dull, unglamorous suspect: the simple question of where the ball happens to be. There are no equations here, only their shadows: the ideas made visible through story, argument, and the running quarrel between a man of the field and a man of the numbers.Out of the wreckage, something hard survives. A number that governs the game. A signal that decides who wins the moment before anyone knows the moment has begun. A crack that spreads through a team like a rumor after a conceded goal. By the last page you will not only see soccer differently-you will have learned the rarer trick the game teaches by accident: how to tell a truth that has been measured from a beautiful story that has merely been declared. Keywords: soccer, sports science, complex systems, prediction, psychology, tactics, information This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185869819
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A goalkeeper leans back and launches the ball downfield. A striker, already sprinting, gives chase. He is one of the fastest human beings on the planet, and he loses. He always loses. The ball, struck once, travels three or four times faster than the quickest man alive, and in that quiet, humiliating fact lies the first hidden law of soccer.This is a detective story about the world's most watched game, told by two men who could not agree about it. One spent his life inside the sport, in dressing rooms and negotiations, trusting his eyes. The other arrived from the cold country of formulas and systems, trusting his data. Together they set out to answer a single, dangerous question: does soccer obey hidden laws, or is its beauty precisely that it obeys none What follows is an honest investigation, which means it is full of dead ends. Some of the theories in this book are ironclad and provable. Others-the most beautiful ones-collapse the moment the authors finally test them against real matches, undone again and again by the same dull, unglamorous suspect: the simple question of where the ball happens to be. There are no equations here, only their shadows: the ideas made visible through story, argument, and the running quarrel between a man of the field and a man of the numbers.>Keywords: soccer, sports science, complex systems, prediction, psychology, tactics, information. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798185869819
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