FRD Book Club: Soccernomics, Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
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🗓️ 31 May 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We’re here to supply with you with the tools to win any football argument on today’s episode of FRD’s Book Club, as we take a look at Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s ‘Soccernomics’!
This project has taken on a life of its own since it was first published in 2009; the book and its data-driven analysis are continually updated in subsequent editions, with some theories proven and others revised within the context of the modern game. Kate Mason, Andy Brassell and Luke Moore pull their respective editions from their shelves and sit down to discuss some of the entertaining anecdotes from the book and the wider discussion around statistics’ place in football discourse – and we also hear from Simon Kuper himself about the process involved in continually updating what may prove to be a life’s work.
Buy Simon and Stefan's book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/000823664X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
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| 0:00.0 | Extra money coming into the Premier League and the capacity that it gives him to buy players and possibly to build stadiums |
| 0:06.7 | Means that the attractiveness of the Premier League relative to those leagues is growing and that creates the pot real |
| 0:13.4 | Possibility that those other leagues just become feeders for the Premier League. They develop players and then sell them on |
| 0:20.4 | To the Premier League. Hello and welcome to for Amble Daily Book Club with me Kate Mason. Me and a Brassel and |
| 0:27.8 | Me look more. He didn't look happy coming forward and Elk and he's not happy now because it's red in Russia |
| 0:35.5 | This English night in Europe is Manchester United's night best in the Premier League |
| 0:42.8 | Their best in the Champions League |
| 0:45.9 | Bank to Edwin Van der Sauer's save |
| 0:49.0 | This week for Book Club we've been reading |
| 0:51.5 | Socconomics if you got the chance to hope you enjoyed it the books an international bestseller written by the |
| 0:57.3 | two brilliant men journalist Simon Cooper and economist Stefan Tmanski is a fifth edition of an ongoing project that started as |
| 1:05.1 | Why England lose if you have picked it up you'll like us now be finding the game very simple and will never be surprised again |
| 1:12.7 | There was a recent paper actually in the American Economic Review they actually have a pretty small sample of |
| 1:19.5 | 129 shoe doubts |
| 1:21.0 | They show that the first-kicking team wins |
| 1:24.6 | 60% of the cases so a huge effect so it's a 20% difference between being first or second |
| 1:30.6 | Socconomics makes the world of football seem organized totally clear if you only have the tools |
| 1:35.5 | Which is what Pupir and Tmanski bring you in a way even the most maths averse |
| 1:41.0 | Congrats, they bring new eyes to the game and then explain the data so you can read it that way too if that sounds a bit dry |
| 1:47.9 | Don't worry. There are brilliant anecdotes Edwin van der Sauer's left hand secret football meetings in France |
| 1:53.1 | And a former it's really prime minister or feature and it's often very funny |
| 1:58.1 | It doesn't special it's a book that makes you actually want to take notes |
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