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Godzilla07 posted:I know taking shots at Nate Silver's Math Click Farm is really easy but good god. 
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win 1.34 to 0. Also: http://jezebel.com/world-cup-soccer-stats-erase-the-sports-most-dominant-p-1601275793
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Jul 7, 2014 22:54
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Yeah replace Thiago Silva with Daniel Alves, sounds good to me his stats are off the chain.
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I don't want to take anything away from what Landon Donovan has achieved. It is commendable. But every time he sits there, silently allowing that phrase to be rattled off — "all-time leading U.S. goal scorer" — without pointing out that he is the all-time leading men's goal scorer, it does take away from what Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm have achieved — total world domination.
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Jul 8, 2014 06:09
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Mean Bean Machine posted:Yeah replace Thiago Silva with Daniel Alves, sounds good to me his stats are off the chain. Jo is one of the best 200 players in the world
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Jul 8, 2014 07:08
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Earthy Ape Unit posted:Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win 1.34 to 0. of course it's loving Jezebel, my god that site is a morass of terrible feminism
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African AIDS cum posted:I don't want to take anything away from what Landon Donovan has achieved. It is commendable. But every time he sits there, silently allowing that phrase to be rattled off — "all-time leading U.S. goal scorer" — without pointing out that he is the all-time leading men's goal scorer, it does take away from what Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm have achieved — total world domination. Abby Wambach scored 62 goals in 11 years as a professional footballer, including 9 for a team called magicJack. She's Jozy level.
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Jul 8, 2014 09:23
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Godzilla07 posted:I know taking shots at Nate Silver's Math Click Farm is really easy but good god. Hmm yes, what better replacement for world class centre half Thiago Silva than Dani loving Alves? loving hell. e; lol I forgot to read the new page, beaten. gj lads
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Jul 8, 2014 09:42
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Earthy Ape Unit posted:Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win 1.34 to 0. I'm a total social justice warrior in most regards and there's a surprising amount of fiery Jezebel rhetoric I agree with, but this is too dumb. The sheer ignorance about football (women have more goals because they have longer careers and more of their games end in penalty shootouts!!) overwhelmed any desire I had to listen to what points the author was actually trying to make.
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Jul 8, 2014 10:34
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The Mash posted:I'm a total social justice warrior in most regards and there's a surprising amount of fiery Jezebel rhetoric I agree with, but this is too dumb. The sheer ignorance about football (women have more goals because they have longer careers and more of their games end in penalty shootouts!!) overwhelmed any desire I had to listen to what points the author was actually trying to make. I know everyone knows this already but I just watched some women's league highlights on BBC sport and feel it bears repeating: female keepers are bad. Like, worse than male school kids bad.
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Jul 8, 2014 11:02
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/soccer-a-beautiful-game-of-chance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0quote:I’ve been watching the World Cup with some frustrated American social scientists. When they see an underdog team triumph with a miraculous rebound or an undeserved penalty kick, they don’t jump up and scream “Goooaaalll!” They just shake their heads and mutter, “Measurement error.”
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Jul 8, 2014 11:27
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Intergortion posted:I know everyone knows this already but I just watched some women's league highlights on BBC sport and feel it bears repeating: female keepers are bad. Like, worse than male school kids bad. Worse than sticking the fat kid in goal? I find this hard to believe.
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Jul 8, 2014 11:41
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jyrka posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/soccer-a-beautiful-game-of-chance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 The first half of that was actually decent, aside from the notion that Manchester United "buy the best talent"
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jyrka posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/soccer-a-beautiful-game-of-chance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 http://youtu.be/7yVCYFD6flU
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jyrka posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/soccer-a-beautiful-game-of-chance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 quote:But the outcome of any one match is unpredictable enough to confound the most sophisticated computer modelers, as Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado has demonstrated in his evaluation of a dozen forecasts for this World Cup. He found that the “stochastic model” of Goldman Sachs economists and the elaborate Soccer Power Index developed by Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight made fewer correct predictions for games in the group stage than did much simpler systems based only on the monetary value of the players or on the teams’ ranking by FIFA, soccer’s world governing body. noooo my advanced stats, they were all for naught
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Jul 8, 2014 13:42
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worse predictive power than actual FIFA rankings, goddamn
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Jul 8, 2014 16:13
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Azerban posted:worse predictive power than actual FIFA rankings, goddamn Well just think about the advanced stats that go into calculating the FIFA rankings in the first place.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:20
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http://www.cracked.com/video_18996_the-world-cup-as-understood-by-americans.html
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Jul 8, 2014 16:24
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You know I think I preferred a world when Americans were entirely ignorant of football.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:48
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvsuYssoTw0
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Jul 8, 2014 16:50
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Christ, this is some unfunny bullshit.
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Jul 8, 2014 17:06
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sexual assault and domestic violence are no laughing matter e/ and the rest of the poo poo in this video is a no laughing zone either
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Azerban posted:worse predictive power than actual FIFA rankings, goddamn Reminder that Deutsche Bank spent a poo poo load of money on a system that predicted England would win the World Cup lmao
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I'll give you three guesses where this comment came from and the first two don't count: I just want a European country to win so we can tone down all this belligerent South American nationalism, which is way too edgy for my taste. They are overwrought and need to swallow a football-sized chill pill. All this flagwaving and crying, it's getting like the Olympics. Football is a game played by creatures that evolved to walk on two legs; it deserves better than all this baboon-troop grunting. Even the western European players are now being told to sing their national anthem, by officials fearful we're being out-fanaticised by Russians, Americans, Hondurans and other hand-on-heart types. Seriously, you love Honduras that much? And what have we done to the Brazilians that they have to shout their national anthem at us so angrily? The football's been good, at least in the group stages. But this World Cup has shown the sad, creeping growth of nationalism as humanity enters the 21st century arse-forwards, eyes firmly fixed on the past. 2014 is the new 1914. Twenty years ago, no-one was singing that poo poo, certainly not shouting it, and the world was a better place for it.
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Troy Queef posted:I'll give you three guesses where this comment came from and the first two don't count: Please don't post my dairy itt.
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Pand posted:Please don't post my dairy itt. I didn't know your cows felt so strongly about South American nationalism.
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Nostradingus posted:I didn't know your cows felt so strongly about South American nationalism. lol not going to edit it.
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Troy Queef posted:I'll give you three guesses where this comment came from and the first two don't count: monkey smashes heaven
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Jul 9, 2014 05:48
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Badger of Basra posted:monkey smashes heaven if it were Monkey Smashes Heaven it'd be angry that the only team they could support (Iran) got knocked out it's Teh Gruniad
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Troy Queef posted:if it were Monkey Smashes Heaven it'd be angry that the only team they could support (Iran) got knocked out lmao now that I reread it, it's extremely british
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Badger of Basra posted:lmao it's loaded with "our national anthem is poo poo and we're a country whose best days are firmly behind them" subtext, that's for certain
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Brazil and Holland have always been my favourite teams in the World Cup. I fell in love with the Dutch in 74 and Brazil in 82. For the FIRST time in my life I was rooting for Germany. The reason: this is the worst Brazil team I have ever seen other than the 1974 one; "well that is no reason to dislike them" you say?, true; that is no reason to dislike a team, not being good enough. But, if it were only that - lack of ability/talent - I would still wish them well, but this is one of the dirtiest, thuggiest teams I have ever seen in a World Cup. They thought they could kick the opposition of the pitch and stopped playing football. When they had to play football to get back in the game... they had forgotten how. Felipe Scolari is the Tony Pulis of Brazilian football. From Mario Zagallo and Tele Santana to this clown. How have the mighty fallen. As usual though, no one will blame the coach, all the blame will be deflected onto the players. After what Brazil did to James Rodriguez and Colombia; this boys and girls, is what they call SWEET, SWEET, KARMA!
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jyrka posted:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/soccer-a-beautiful-game-of-chance.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 Not sure why people are so down against using data to aid in understanding the game. Not everyone has the time to watch every single soccer match and get an intuition. Just learning things like the better ranked teams tend to do get the largest advantage in extra time vs PKs, and having data to back it up is pretty big. And knowing the parts of the field that have the highest percentage looks. At least its more approachable than ideas that make less sense out of context like 'beautiful game'.
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Jul 9, 2014 14:33
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Tezzeract posted:Not sure why people are so down against using data to aid in understanding the game. Not everyone has the time to watch every single soccer match and get an intuition. lol source your quotes
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Jul 9, 2014 14:39
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Tezzeract posted:Not sure why people are so down against using data to aid in understanding the game. Not everyone has the time to watch every single soccer match and get an intuition.
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What are highest percentage looks?
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peanut- posted:What are highest percentage looks? Upskirt and sideboob
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Jul 9, 2014 15:17
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sassassin posted:Upskirt and sideboob
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Tezzeract posted:Not sure why people are so down against using data to aid in understanding the game. Not everyone has the time to watch every single soccer match and get an intuition. Teams use advanced statistics, and no one is really arguing that they're useless. It's more that amateurs making up advanced stats is dumb and pointless, especially when you see retarded poo poo like DZSiBOT or a retarded VORP analysis for what would happen if Maicon played center back for Brazil.
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