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 coincidenꩲce. Goals, however, aren’t a sole game of dice but are influenced by th🧸e 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 coincidence and distinct a top team from a𒆙 potential relegation team.
Stunning: All teams in the Bundesliga 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 especially well✅ at home. Thus, home strength is a myth.
Typically 3 goals are scored in a match. To be precise, the number of goals has decreased ov✅er time an🦩d now amounts to 2,8.
Rather not. 46 % of all wiܫns are based upon a one-goal-margin.
No. Only about 25% of matches result ins draw. 𓄧By implication 75% of matches ha🌳ve a winner!
Yes, but since the middle of the 80s, the 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 scored than ♓on average. So: Bet on higher results!
The goal differente of past matches is especially informative for the purpose of predictions. It i😼s significantly more in𒁃formative 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 informative f🐈or 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 additional pointꦕs or a goa🥀l difference increased by 16 goals.
A season-specific average Performance level of a team does exist. (Performance level = goal difference th🅷at a team scores against an average opponent)
Theꦰ coincidence averages out during the cours🌃e 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 def♒ense are correlated.
Without effects of coinci🐻dence, the diff🌌erence of goalscoring opportunities would perfectly predict the performance level.
The goal difference is d෴etermined by effects o🐽f coincidence with 86% (match day) or 29% (season) on average.
Fluctuations of performance levels from match day to match day are, therefore, not statisticallyཧ relevant. The changes of performances levels take place dur⛦ing the summer break and only rare
There are no positive series. The concept of a &ld🍌quo;streak“ is, thus, void. Unfortunately this does not apply for negative series - those do exist. As Andi Brehme famously put it: “When you got s🐼hit on your foot, you got shit on your foot!“
In the context of statistical preciseness, the conversion of effective goalscoring opportunities is identical for all teams. For that reason the goalscorღing opportunities are quite significant for the prediction of goals.
The performance of promoted teams is astonishingly well predetermined🤡. Significant deviations from the lower half of the table (goal difference: -13 +/- 8) are, thus, extremely rare. For that reason a „march through“ i🐼s very special.
With the help of the market value and the effective differente of goalscoring opportunities you can come closer to the perfect ꧋prediction of the second half of the season..
No. In fact only in half of the cases the bes🍸t team wins and becomes German champion at the end of the seas🍸on.
No.💫 Statistically, there are no bogey team. The scientist’s search for bogey teams was negative. Looking at it statistically the effect is under 10%.
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