We’ve long heard about the waves that statistics has made in baseball. But what about soccer? In this episode, we summarize a few applications of statistics in European football (or American soccer).

Sources

• FiveThirtyEight.com: Down At Halftime In A Soccer Game? Use Your Subs.

• ESPN.com blog: Premier League teams rarely use all their substitutes. Why don’t they take advantage of such fresh legs?

• NYT Magazine: How Data (and Some Breathtaking Soccer) Brought Liverpool to the Cusp of Glory

• Freakonomics Podcast: Can Britain Get Its “Great” Back? (Ep. 393)

• The Independent: Takumi Minamino: How RB Salzburg scouted the perfect Liverpool player