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Bundesliga Teams Could Be Using More Substitutions. But They Aren’t.

Compared to football, baseball and basketball, the “big three” American sports, soccer is a uniquely fluid game: no set possession length, a continuously running clock, a tiny number of actual scoring attempts and constant transitions that blur the line between attack and defense. That’s made it much more difficult to quantify. Lionel Messi is better […]

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Down At Halftime In A Soccer Game? Use Your Subs.

It is halftime in a soccer game. One side is losing. Most of the time, that team’s manager decides to persist with the 11 players who started the match until well into the second half. That lack of action actually damages the team’s prospects of making a comeback in the game. And despite the data […]

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