Zimbabwe vs gambia October 23rd 2024

[ilovearsenal04]

Just to emphasize...I just went to FIFA's website for maybe the third time in my life. They've got rankings, but there isn't even a "statistics" tab on their homepage...thats how quantitatively boring a sport that foot fetish thing is

They've got a motherfucking "legal" tab at FIFA...but not a stats one. Thats how NOT interested a human could be in even trying to quantify that game, lmao.

Meanwhile...the statsguru feature on cricinfo is pure gold.

Yeah this is a really bad take, go and search on the PL official website and you will find a lot very obscure stats, the last 10 years have been great for football analytics and stats and i am not sure when you last watched a game of footy but you should try it again soon!

[Kriterion_BD]

Football is the biggest sport in the world, your hatred is weird.

Its not even a top 4 sport in America!

But yeah, I don't see the big deal about football. Are the players skilled? Sure. But its absolutely boring as fuck to watch.

[Googly]

This might be the only time we ever agree
A ball sport where you don't get to use your opposable thumbs and you can lose despite being 89 minutes in the opposition's penalty area hacking at an inflated goat's bladder.

Trump 2024!!

[CholeZimbo]

Football is the biggest sport in the world, your hatred is weird.

Its not even a top 4 sport in America!

But yeah, I don't see the big deal about football. Are the players skilled? Sure. But its absolutely boring as fuck to watch.

WTF who cares about American sports except Americans. Football is the biggest sport in the world and America is not the world.

[zimbos_05]

Football is the biggest sport in the world, your hatred is weird.

Its not even a top 4 sport in America!

But yeah, I don't see the big deal about football. Are the players skilled? Sure. But its absolutely boring as fuck to watch.

Do you even take yourself seriously?

Just because it's not top 4 in America, that doesn't change the fact that it's number 1 in the world.

Boring as fuck? You do realise you are saying this on a forum which is about a sport that can sometimes last for 5 days and end in a draw. Sometimes, those 5 days it just rains the whole time.

I love cricket, but you are smoking some heavy shit.

[Pat_Bee]

Football is that important people were waving “Wenger Out” banners in the anti Mugabe protests before the coup

[andrea lanzoni]

Football is the biggest sport in the world, your hatred is weird.

Its not even a top 4 sport in America!

But yeah, I don't see the big deal about football. Are the players skilled? Sure. But its absolutely boring as fuck to watch.

Do you even take yourself seriously?

Just because it's not top 4 in America, that doesn't change the fact that it's number 1 in the world.

Boring as fuck? You do realise you are saying this on a forum which is about a sport that can sometimes last for 5 days and end in a draw. Sometimes, those 5 days it just rains the whole time.

I love cricket, but you are smoking some heavy shit.

Soccer is not boring, quite the opposite: its worldwide success is based on how easily it offers emotions.
Easy to use emotions for everyone: if you watch a soccer match for the first time, you may easily feel involved.

Quite different for technical sports like cricket or, even more, baseball.
In cricket, baseball if you are not simultaneously grasping also the inherent statistics, you are just watching someone who bowls a ball and another one who hits it: 10% of what is happening.

In soccer when you watch a match on TV you are grasping 99% of it. There are not statistics. The few that sometimnes are offered are meaningless.

For me, as an Italian who has grown with soccer, this sport, rather than boring, it is not appealing. There is nothing intrinsecally interesting which make me think watching a match: just emotions.
Cricket makes me think about all the variables which may affect a result: dew, light, pitch deterioration, bowlers rotation, and a million others...

Baseball, maybe even more than cricket, is another science affected sport. Think of the movie Moneyball and the scientific approach, almost artificial intelligence, to draft a team. In soccer it would be simply ridicolous.

Bottom line: if you want easy emotions watch soccer (or volleyball). If you seek something which may appeal your brain I suggest cricket, baseball, american football, basketball and Formula 1.

[Pat_Bee]

Football is boring in my opinion I loved it when I was a kid but it’s a different game now, practically a none contact sport these days at the highest level. Can’t attempt to deny its popularity though.

There’s enough stats in it; goals, assists, possession, heat maps and trackers for where the majority of play is etc., how far guys have ran in a game or whatever, points per game, win ratios and stuff. Just off the top of my head

[Crastle_cog]

Can unnanimously agree that whatever kriterion says is bullshit

[andrea lanzoni]

Football is boring in my opinion I loved it when I was a kid but it’s a different game now, practically a none contact sport these days at the highest level. Can’t attempt to deny its popularity though.

There’s enough stats in it; goals, assists, possession, heat maps and trackers for where the majority of play is etc., how far guys have ran in a game or whatever, points per game, win ratios and stuff. Just off the top of my head

Oh yes there are those "stas".
None of them have ANY meaning, neither are of any help to better undestand a team's performance along a season.

For a while, some years ago there was a collective understanding that ball possession could be the parameter to assess a club skill.
Apparently it may make some sense.
It's been then empirically demonstrated that there is NO correlation at all between ball possession and performance. It's just a fancy stat. Useless under a scientific poit of view.

Then there are also statistics such as number of corner kicks in a match. The purported basis was that the more you attack the more corners you are supposed to have, consequently more chances to win.
Empirical evidence demonstrated its groundless effect.

There are NO meanigful statistics in soccer to appraise performance out of matches won (which is a statistic that a 6 years old kid can easily monitor).....

Soccer is pure emotion, not intelligence.