Chris Anderson played in goal for a 4th Division club in Germany at 17; today he’s a professor at the London School of Economics. An award-winning social scientist and football analytics pioneer, Anderson consults with leading clubs about how best to play the numbers game. His bestselling book The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football is Wrong, co-written with David Sally, was published by Viking in the UK and has been described as football’s equivalent to Moneyball. It is also a bestseller in the USA for Penguin, and has been sold in many countries around the world.
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