{"id":4364,"date":"2014-07-05T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T20:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:40:33","slug":"meta-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2014\/07\/05\/meta-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most unfortunate developments of modern football, and a clear symptom of the decline of civilization, is the regrettable irruption in the comments of a deluge of factoids that manage to simultaneously give a bad name to team sports and to statistics (&#8220;This is the first time in twenty-one competitive games played in the Southern Hemisphere that a French Number 10 player&#8217;s backward pass from the left foot has been intercepted by a Dutch player born in Amsterdam&#8221;). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LASTYUGgWSg\">Roger Couderc<\/a> certainly did not need this to make a game come to life (of course, technically, he was advantaged by the fact that he was commenting the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2009\/05\/10\/the-greatness-of-serge-blanco\/\">much greater<\/a> game of Rugby).<\/p>\n<p>I am waiting impatiently for a more refined approach that will include meta-statistics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDid you know? France has never lost a game where a single US-based newspaper presented more than three human-interest stories concerning the opposing team players in the three days before the game.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nDid you know? It is the first time since the invention of the personal computer that the BBC has listed more than 243 statistical facts about a game.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nDid you know? Three out of four statistical facts about the Italy-Switzerland game have involved numbers larger than thirteen.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These will be the days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most unfortunate developments of modern football, and a clear symptom of the decline of civilization, is the regrettable irruption in the comments of a deluge of factoids that manage to simultaneously give a bad name to team sports and to statistics (&#8220;This is the first time in twenty-one competitive games played in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/2014\/07\/05\/meta-statistics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta-statistics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homages-and-parodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/kowalski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}