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. Goa꧂ls, 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%. 14ꩵ% are no coincidence and distinct a top team from a potential r💖elegation team.
Stunning: All teams in t🍷he Bundesliga have abo🦂ut the same conversion of chances.
Home teams score more goals on average. Average 1,66 home and 1,20 away goals. The💛re is an overall home advantage but no evidence that in addition to that teams perform especially well at home. Thus, home strength is a myth.
Typically 3 goals are scored in a match. ဣTo be precise, the number of goals has decreased over time and now amounts to 2,8.
Rathe🌳r not. 46 % of all wins are based upon a onꦅe-goal-margin.
No. Only about 2💜5% of matches 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 during the 70s distinctively mor♋e 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 scored than on average. So:ꦐ Bet on higher results!
The goal differente of past matches is especially informative for the purpose of predictions. 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 informativ🌼e for the sake 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 with their actual performance. Rule of thumb: Doubling of the market value = 10 addition✅al 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 longer the season has already progressed, the more reliabl💃e goals and opportunities display the performances of teams.
A football match♛ is dominated by effects of coincidence. Additionally the performance level of offense and defense are correlated.
Without effects of coincidence, the difference of goalscoring opportunities would perfectly✱ predict the performance level.
The goal difference is de൲termined by effects of coincidence with✱ 86% (match day) or 29% (season) on average.
Fluctuations of performance levels from match day to m💖🐠atch day are, therefore, not statistically relevant. The changes of performances levels take place during the summer break and only rare
There are no positivಌe 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 shꦇit on your foot, you got shit on your foot!“
In the context of statistical preciseness, the conve🐠rsion of effective goalscoring oppoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrtunities is identical for all teams. For that reason the goalscoring opportunities are quite significant for the prediction of goals.
The performance of promoted teams is astonishingly well predetermined. Significa▨nt 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 effe⛦ctive diওfferente of goalscoring opportunities you can come closer to the perfect prediction of the second half of the season..
No. In fact only i𓃲n half of the cases the be🎐st team wins and becomes German champion at the end of the season.
No. Statistically, there are no bogey team. The scientist’s sea𒐪rch for🌸 bogey teams was negative. Looking at it statistically the effect is under 10%.
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