Football in numbers

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I commented on the study consultants Frontier Economics conducted to trace the value of the players in the world. But there's more. The analysis shows many interesting things well open another view of the game and answered many questions about prices, especially in the European market.

To determine certain outcomes technique is applied econometrics, which is a statistical system that helps to link the price paid for a signing of player performance in question, analyzing something that seems impossible to analyze, as the quality of football.

According to Frontier Economics, the qualities of a player are hard to measure, but not impossible. To achieve this, taking into account aspects such as goals scored, the goals conceded, minutes played, the call for the selection, nomination and Golden Ball titles.

Thus we know that for example, a player can calculate their contribution increases every 90 minutes played was 3.18%, 1.33% higher than that raises its price if your selection is convened. Incredible no?

As for goals, the report shows even more striking data. While the goal for their signing a striker increases by 3.4%, the goal does not impact equally in the form of a defender striker, who has not improved at all its form, but does affect the goals that proponents make your computer because your chip is reduced by 0.5% for each goal.

The worst part is carried by porters, those afflicted workers living to prevent the most beautiful football holds precisely the goal. Whenever the goalkeeper should go get the ball into the goal, his value drops to 4.4% outright for goal.

Football, as we see, not only about twenty-two types of running after a ball, as defined by the intellectuals. It is also science.

Special thanks to: Dr. Fernando Barrera and Jorge Leon Frontier Economics.

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