Scientist from the Wissenschaftler of Münster have analysed the statistics of the German Bundesliga thoroughly and could characterise a footb🧜all match as a Poisson-Process and lik😼e that made football results calculable. The crucial finding of the scientists is that goals in football are a product of coincidence. Goals, however, 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 team from a potential relegatio👍n team.
Stunning: All teams in the Bundesliga havജe 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 b🌳ut no evidence that in addition to that teams perform especially well at home. Thus, home strength is a myth.
Typical🌸ly 3 goals are scored in a match. To be preci🏅se, the number of goals has decreased over time and now amounts to 2,8.
Rather not. 46 % of all wins are bas𝓀ed upon a one-goal-margin.
No. Only about 25% of matches result ins draw. By implica🌺tion 75% of matches have💎 a winner!
Yes, but since the middle of the 80s, the number of away wins is constantly getting bigge🃏r. Wh༺ile during 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 daᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚys about 20% more goals are scored than on average. So: Bet on higher results!
T▨he goal differente of past matches is especially informative for the purpose of predictions. It is significantly more informative than the number of points. The expecte𓂃d amount of goals, on the other hand, is quite similar among all teams.
Goalscoring opportunities are a lot m🌱ore informative fo🐼r the sake of prognosis. Good teams show a slightly better conversion.
The market value of a team as determi꧅ned before the start of the season is extremely strongly correlated with 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. (Performa꧑nce level = goal difference that a team scores against an average opponent)
The coincidence ave♍rages out during the course of the season. The longer the season has already progressed, the more reliable goals and opportunities display the performances of teams.
A football match is dominated by effects of coincidence. Additionall🍃y the performance level of offense and defense are correlated.
Without effects of coincide🎉nce, the difference of goalscoring opportunities would perfectly predict the performance level.
The goal dif✃ference 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 statistically relevant. The changes of performances level✤s take place during the summer break and only rare
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 got 💛shit on your foot!“
In the context of statistical preciseness, the conversion of effective goalscoring o🍬pportunities is identical for all teams. For that reason the goalscoring opportunities are quite significant for the predicti🀅on of goals.
The performance of promoted 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 &bdquꦉo;march through“ is very special.
With the help of the market value and the effective differente of goalscoring opportunities you c📖an come closer to the perfect prediction of the second half of the season..
No. In fact only in half of the cases the best team wins and becomes German champꦇion at the 🦩end of the season.
No. Statistically, 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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