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Zimbabwe vs gambia October 23rd 2024
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> Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:15 pm 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!
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!
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> zimbos_05 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:35 pm 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 f**k to watch.
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 f**k to watch.
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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.
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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!!
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> Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:20 am zimbos_05 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:35 pm 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 f**k to watch.
WTF who cares about American sports except Americans. Football is the biggest sport in the world and America is not the world.
WTF who cares about American sports except Americans. Football is the biggest sport in the world and America is not the world.
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> Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:20 am zimbos_05 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:35 pm 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 f**k 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 f**k? 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 s**t.
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 f**k? 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 s**t.
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Football is that important people were waving “Wenger Out” banners in the anti Mugabe protests before the coup
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> zimbos_05 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 9:27 am Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 12:20 am zimbos_05 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 8:35 pm 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 f**k 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 f**k? 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 s**t.
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.
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.
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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
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
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Can unnanimously agree that whatever kriterion says is bullshit
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> Pat_Bee wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 10:07 am 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.
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.
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Football is most definitely a top four sport in the USA now. The number of bars that are packed with football fans on Saturday and Sunday mornings watching the Premier League are testament to that. We also have MLS teams attracting crowds of 60,000+. If you live somewhere like Texas with a lot of immigrants from Central and South America you really see a lot of football fans.
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Neil Johnson, Brendan Taylor, Murray Goodwin, Andy Flower (w), David Houghton, Sean Williams, Heath Streak (c), Andy Blignaut, Paul Strang, Eddo Brandes, Blessing Muzarabani
Neil Johnson, Brendan Taylor, Murray Goodwin, Andy Flower (w), David Houghton, Sean Williams, Heath Streak (c), Andy Blignaut, Paul Strang, Eddo Brandes, Blessing Muzarabani
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Crastle_cog wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:58 am
Can unnanimously agree that whatever kriterion says is bullshit 😂 😂
You know you're a FOB, when even your posts have an accent, lol.
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I tried watching football twice to see what it was all about and I just can't. It's the diving and histrionics that gets to me the most. A poes Klap from Eben for every dude that dived would fix it.
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