Applying Complex System Analysis to Soccer


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“The winning goal of the Manchester City match occurred when a Queen Park Ranger fell down, leaving a two-on-two situation which is exactly the situation our research shows enables goal scoring opportunities.”

Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and a co author of the study “Science of Winning Soccer: Emergent pattern-forming dynamics in association football” (2011).