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Chris Anderson and David Sally have the ability to see football in a way few have before them. Be warned: THE NUMBERS GAME will change the way you think about your favorite team or player, and the way you watch the beautiful game. - Billy Beane, Manager of the Oakland A's and subject of Moneyball <br> <br> [This] is the book that could change the game forever. - The Times (London)<br> <br> By any standards, this is a landmark book, scrupulously researched and bound to be influential. - Booklist (starred review)<br><br> <br> Witty and thoughtful...should appeal not just to soccer fans, but to readers of Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics . - Kirkus Reviews <br><br>

Chris Anderson and David Sally have the ability to see football in a way few have before them. Be warned: THE NUMBERS GAME will change the way you think about your favorite team or player, and the way you watch the beautiful game. - Billy Beane, Manager of the Oakland A's and subject of Moneyball . ..North American soccer fans would do very well to pick up this book. It will not only help them understand the game better, but it will also stimulate new ways to analyze and think about the game. - Forbes [This] is the book that could change the game forever. - The Times (London) By any standards, this is a landmark book, scrupulously researched and bound to be influential. - Booklist (starred review) Witty and thoughtful...should appeal not just to soccer fans, but to readers of Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics . - Kirkus Reviews A highly original contribution to our understanding of what we are seeing at a match, their book is unbeatable - The Independent on Sunday Pundits, armchair fans and professionals, will find that several of their long-cherished truisms are not true at all. - The Guardian Superb - GQ

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Chris Anderson is a pioneer of soccer analytics and a professor at London School of Economics in the U.K. and Cornell University in the U.S. David Sally is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

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