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🗓️ 1 January 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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We wouldn't dream of leaving you hanging during the holidays, so ETR set about creating four shows to get everyone through the end of 2014.
Dec. 22: Referees (PRO's GM Peter Walton and Chris Penso)
Dec. 25: Americans Abroad (Alejandro Bedoya, Herediano owner David Patey, Kabul Premier League vet Nicholas Pugliese)
Dec. 29: Expansion (Atlanta MLS president Darren Eales, LAFC president and co-owner Tom Penn)
Jan. 1: ETR Book Club (The Numbers Game with author David Sally)
In this episode, the guys revive the ETR Book Club by reviewing The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong by Chris Anderson and David Sally.
Sally joins to talk about the thought process behind the book, the progress in the field since and where advanced statistics in soccer go from here. Meanwhile, Opta analyst Devin Pleuler and the Armchair Analyst Matt Doyle fill in for Simon for a roundtable on the state of stats in soccer.
Finally, the guys dip into the mailbag to see what the listeners thought of the book. Tweet or email with your suggestion for our next ETR Book Club!
Email us at [email protected] or tweet us at @ExtraTimeRadio. And make sure you check out our West Coast brethren at March to the Match every Wednesday!
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Extra Time Radio Book Club. |
0:05.0 | I can never get my head around the Dewey Decimal System. |
0:09.0 | Did Aristotle play holding mid or attacking mid? |
0:12.0 | Weather-bound mahogany books. One time my mom took me as a |
0:16.1 | seven-year-old to the library, we took out a bambi book, it's still at home to this day. |
0:20.6 | Deuce face. Don't we want to be watching soccer games? Isn't it |
0:26.3 | counterproductive to read instead of watching soccer games? Well that just |
0:31.2 | happened. I'm cringing. |
0:32.8 | You know, sometimes those ideas that you think are great |
0:35.6 | and then you do them and you just, |
0:37.5 | you don't realize until three or four months later |
0:39.9 | how ridiculously bad they were. |
0:41.5 | That's the key is if you just send things out |
0:43.3 | into the world and don't edit them or check them or think about them? |
0:46.6 | Never look back. |
0:47.2 | No, never look back. |
0:48.4 | What people don't understand about Simon, |
0:50.6 | they think it's an act. |
0:52.0 | They think he's an act they know I get the question just putting putting this out there and playing a role |
0:56.9 | He really believes the stuff that he says you know? It's jarring for me because I've never worked with him on a day-to-day basis so we only really see each other cup, |
1:06.0 | all-star game that sort of thing. |
1:07.5 | He always comes up with like three or four things that just absolutely drop my jaw. |
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