Scientist from the Wissenschaftler of Münster have analysed the statistics of the German Bundesliga thoroughly and could characterise a football match as a Poisson-Process and like that made football results calculable. The crucial finding of the scientists is that goals in football are a product of coincidence. Goals, how𒆙ever, aren’t a sole game of dice but are influenced by the technical abilities of the players, the so called performance level, of both teams.
In the Bundesliga a typical outcome of match is determined of coincidence by 86%. 14% are no coincidence and distinct a top ꦉteam from a potential relegation team.
Stunning: All t🌃eams in the Bundeslig🌸a have about the same conversion of chances.
Home teams score more goals on average. Average 1,66 home and 1,20 away goals. There is an overall home advantage but no evidence that in addition to that teams perform especially well at home.🤪 Thus, home streng𒈔th is a myth.
Typically 3 goals are scored in a match. To be precise, the number of goals has decr♛eased over time and now amounts to 2,8.
ওRather n💎ot. 46 % of all wins are based upon a one-goal-margin.
No. Only about 25% of ma♑tches result ins🎉 draw. By implication 75% of matches have a winner!
Yes, but since the middle of the 80s, the number of away wins is constantly getting bigger. While durin🌊g the 70s distinctively more than 20% of matches resulted ins away win, that figure already amounted to 33% in the season of 2010/2011.
Extraordinary: On the last two match days about 20% more goals are scඣored than on average. So: Bet on higher results!
The goal differente of past matches is especially informative for the purpose of predict🀅ions. It is significantly more informative than the number of points. The expected amount of goals, on the other hand, is quite similar among all teams.
Goalscoring opportunities are a lot more informative for the s🐼ake of prognosis. Good teams show a ▨slightly better conversion.
The market value of a team as determined before the start of the season is extremely strongly correlated w🦂ith their actual performance. Rule of thumb: Doubling of the market value = 10 additional points or a goal difference increased by 16 goals.
A season-specific average Performance level of a team does exist. (Performance level =🎃 goal difference that a team scores against an average opponent)
The coincidence averages out during the course of the season. The loౠnger the season has already progressed, the more reliable go🦂als and opportunities display the performances of teams.
A football match is dominated by effects of coincidence. Additionally the performance level of offense and defe🌳nse are correlated.
Without effects of coin🐎cidence, the difference of goaꦆlscoring opportunities would perfectly predict the performance level.
The goal difference ♛is determined by effects of coincidence with 86% (match day) or 29% (season) on average.
Fluctuations of performance levels from match day to match day are, therefore, not statisti🌠cally relevant. The changes of performances levels take place during the summer break and only ra൲re
There are no positive series. The concept of a “streak“ is, thus, void. Unfortunately this does not apply for negative series - those do exist. As Andi Brehme famously put it: “When you got shit on your foot, you ಞgot shit on your foot!“
In the context of statistical preciseness, the conversion of effective goalscoring opportunities is identical for all teams. For🍒 that reason the goalscoring opportunities are quite significant for the prediction of goals.
The performanc🔯e of pr🔴omoted teams is astonishingly well predetermined. Significant deviations from the lower half of the table (goal difference: -13 +/- 8) are, thus, extremely rare. For that reason a „march through“ is very special.
With the help of the market value and the effective differente of goalscoring opportunities you can come closer 🍷to the perfect prediction of the second h🌺alf of the season..
No. In fact only in half of the cases the best ꧙team wins and becomes German champion at the end of the season.
No. Statist⛄ically, there are no bogey team. The scientist’s search for bogey teams was negative. Looking at it statistically the effect is under 10%.
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