Football fans’ great expectations: why they should lower them by 10% | Greg Wood
Master statistician Nate Silver has crunched football’s numbers and found managers are paying price for supporters’ blind faithHow well do you know your football team? And how do you think they will get on next weekend? Because my bet would be that however well you think you know your team, no matter how dispassionately you feel you can assess their chances after season upon season of occasional highs and abundant lows, there is a database in the United States that knows a great deal more about your club’s performance than you do.In fact, there are quite a few databases which contain more wisdom about the nitty-gritty of how and why football teams succeed or fail than any human could ever...