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 sc♒ientists 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 coinci🅰dence and distinct a top team from a potential relegation team.
Stunning: All teams in the Bu🧸ndesliga 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 especiall🍰y well at home. Thus, home strength is a myth.
Typically 3 goals are scored in a match. To be precise, theꦗ number of goals has decreased over time and now amounts to 2,8.
Rather not. 46 % of all wins are based upon a on𒅌e-goal-margin.
No. Only about 25% of match🦄es result ins draw. By implication 75🥀% of matches have a winner!
Yes, but since the middle of the 80s, t🅠he number of away wins is constantly getting bigger. While 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 days about 20% more goals are score♕d than on average. So: Bet on higher r🦩esults!
The goal differente of past matches is especially informative for the purpose of pre🌺dictions. 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.
Goalscor𝐆ing opportunities are a lot more informative for the sake of prognosis. Good teams show a slightly better conversion.
The market vaꦓlue 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 additional points or a goal difference increased by 16 goals.
A season-specific average Performance 💦level of a team does exi𓆏st. (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 reliable goals and opportunities 💜display the performances🐼 of teams.
A football match is dominated♌ by effects of coincidence. Additionally the performance level of offense and d⭕efense are correlated.
Without effects of coincidence, the difference of goalscori❀ng opportunities would perfectly pꦬredict the performance level.
The goal difference ℱis determined by effects of coincidence with 86% (match day) or 29%🍎 (season) on average.
Fluctuations of performance൩ levels from match day to match day are, therefore, not statistically relevant. The changes of performances levels take place during the summer break and only rare
There are no positive series. The concept of a “streak&⛦ldquo; is, thus, void. Unfortunately this does not apply for negative series - those do exist. As Andi Brehme famously put it: “When you go🌜t shit on your foot, you got shit on your foot!“
In the context of statistical preciseness, the conversion of effective goalscoring opportunitie♋s is identical for all teams. For that reason the goalscoring opportunities are quite significant for the pred☂iction of goals.
The p👍erformance 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 effective differente of goalscoring opportunities you can come closer to the perfect prediction𝓰 of the second half of the season..
No. In fact only꧙ in half of the cases the best team wins and becomes German champion at the end of the season.
No. Statistically, there are no bogey team. The⭕ scientist’s search for bogey t🧔eams was negative. Looking at it statistically the effect is under 10%.
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