Bacon of the Sea posted:

dilbertschalter posted:

idk if penalty shootouts are racist, but they legitimately are pretty unfair to the team that goes second.

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You further prove that it's your team that is the problem, not Altidore. Like the whole team, Altidore had a bad game as well. We all know there is an inherent bias against American players than their counterpart European players in any European soccer league and American players have to try 100x harder to establish them because of this bias but to write a player off after 2 games in any sports is beyond asinine.

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Consider yourself lucky. We American fans are going to put Sunderland on the map or else it will be going to back just 4 of you in an empty stadium.

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Deceptively quick and strong. Thought he had a very good game v Southampton. Our supporting players offered little to help him out!

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We have to show faith in Altidore...He just need one easy goal..maybe a tap in...then everything will come flushing out...As I've stated, he's a bit of a confidence player that scores in bunches once he starts.

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But the case for jozy is solid...He baggs 3 goals for the U.S, then comes back to sunderland for 2 match and cant get any...Maybe it's just the fact that he's not getting enough support on the pitch in a sunderland shirt.

vaginal culture posted:

Lol at those delusional crybabies

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In a paper we published recently, using an entire season of ball tracking data we showed that home teams had significantly more possession in the forward third which correlated with more shots and goals while the shooting and passing proficiencies were the same. Using our automatic formation analysis, we extend this analysis, and show that teams tend to play the same formation at home as they do away, but the manner in which they execute it is significantly different. Specifically, we show that the formation of teams at home is significantly higher up the field compared to when they play away. This conservative approach at away games suggests that coaches aim to win their home games and draw their away games. Additionally, we also show that our method can visually summarize a game which gives an indication of dominance and tactics. While enabling new discoveries of team behavior which can enhance analysis, it is also worth mentioning that our automatic formation detection method is the first to be developed.

belgend posted:

They haven't been best at baseball for a while http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_World_Cup / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

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Europhilic allure and fashionable otherness have made soccer the new baseball

Baldo di Gregorio posted:

It's so jarring seeing them try to foist the poo poo on football, where it has absolutely no place and never will.

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Soccer presents a Pythagorean challenge because about a quarter of its matches end in draws, worth one point each in the league tables. Because wins are worth three points, the most accurate Pythagorean analyses overestimate most teams’ points totals, as soccer analyst Howard Hamilton has found. I got the same result when seeking the best exponent for the last 21 complete seasons of the big four European professional leagues, using data compiled by Opta, the soccer-stats providers and analysts. The best fit,2 an exponent of 1.19, overestimated the average team’s final standing by 4.6 points.