{"id":25925,"date":"2009-01-01T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/01\/01\/the-statistical-problem-with-s\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:42:42","slug":"the-statistical-problem-with-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/the-statistical-problem-with-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Statistical Problem With Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best soccer team on the planet has just over a 1 in four chance of winning the world cup even it it makes it to the last stages of the season.  I suppose this is because they play for, like, four hours and each side gets, like, zero or one points.  So it&#8217;s kinda like being really really good at flipping a coin.  And I&#8217;m exaggerating only a little.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/24182\/\">Or at least, that&#8217;s how it is according to this blog post. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best soccer team on the planet has just over a 1 in four chance of winning the world cup even it it makes it to the last stages of the season. I suppose this is because they play for, like, four hours and each side gets, like, zero or one points. So it&#8217;s kinda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/the-statistical-problem-with-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Statistical Problem With Soccer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6K9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}