Download or read book Opta World Football Infographics written by Adrian Besley and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World Football Infographics written by Adrian Besley and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition contains ten new categories, adding even more design ideas and football information, and revealing the answers to questions on the greatest players, finest clubs, best national teams and most dominant leagues: the Olympic Games, Japan's J-League, FIFA World Cup and European competitions all are given fresh looks. Filled with colour on every page, World Football Infographics offers rich entertainment for football fans of all ages. Opta has earned a reputation for the breadth and accuracy of the statistics it provides on a wide range of sports, especially football. The "Beautiful Game" has been portrayed in many ways over the years, but never in such a dynamic and interactive fashion as this. It covers every aspect of the game, from the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championships to the Copa America and the Africa Cup of Nations in international football to the UEFA Champions League and Europe's most famous domestic leagues in club football.
Download or read book World Soccer Infographics written by Opta and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to present soccer’s rich history, statistics, and culture through highly detailed yet accessible infographics. Who is soccer’s greatest player: Pelé, Maradona, Messi, or Ronaldo? Which national team has garnered the most fouls? Where is the best place to aim a penalty kick? Just like the great game itself, World Soccer Infographics is rich entertainment and takes fans of all ages on a visually compelling statistical journey of revelations about the game. This book is a fresh, colorful approach to depicting the history and statistics of soccer in an insightful diagrammatic form. The “Beautiful Game” has been portrayed in many ways over the years, but never in such a dynamic and interactive fashion that makes for addictive and easily browsable reading. The book covers every aspect of the game, from statistical information about goals scored, red and yellow cards given, and number of championships won by individual teams, to aspects of the culture surrounding the sports institution and the nature of fandom. It includes information on the World Cup, the Copa America, the Africa Cup of Nations, the UEFA Champions League, and all the world’s most famous domestic club leagues.
Download or read book OptaJoe s Football Yearbook 2016 written by Duncan Alexander and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kane or Vardy? Pep or José? Pulis or ... anybody else? Football is a game of opinions. A world where received wisdom and the law of the hunch reign supreme. But football is becoming more intelligent. The history books may say that Leicester City winning the premier league ‘defied logic’, but if you looked more closely, they were always going to win . . . From distances run to pass success rate, shots on target to corners won, counter-attacks to tackles made, Opta, the world’s leading sports data company, records everything. But what does it all mean? And how can it add to our love of the game? From the author and statistician behind the popular OptaJoe Twitter account, what follows is a hugely entertaining and insightful guide to football in 2016, analysing data from the world's greatest teams, players, leagues and tournaments. Stats can never tell us everything, but combining cutting-edge analysis with wry humour, this book debunks countless myths peddled by pundits, managers, and even players. The ideas that follow are both surprising and satisfying, but may also leave you with the feeling that ‘yes, that’s what I was thinking all along’.
Download or read book The History of the Women s World Cup written by Adrian Besley and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Women' s World Cup is a celebration of women' s soccer' s most prestigious tournament. In the UK, crowds and TV viewing figures are at record levels and top players have become household names. The Women' s World Cup 2023 in Australia and New Zealand will be the biggest, most eagerly anticipated and watched competition in it' s history.This book explains the growth of the women' s game and the origins of the Women' s World Cup. Illustrated with fabulous colour photographs, it tells the story of each tournament, highlighting key moments, great goals and providing an in- depth account of every final. It recalls the great teams and the legendary players who emerged, including Marta, Birgit Prinz, Megan Rapinoe and Lucy Bronze.The book also previews in detail the 2023 World Cup. It focuses on each of the venues and features the 32 competing teams, their groups and possible route to the final. It also picks out the potential stars of the finals, from Australia' s Sam Kerr and Belgium' s Tessa Wullaert to Germany' s Lea Schü ller and England' s Ella Toone, in a comprehensive guide to the global showpiece of women' s football.In 1995, FIFA President Sepp Blatter famously declar
Download or read book The Beautiful Game written by John Andrews and published by Aurum Press Limited. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the world of football brought to life with illustrations and stunning infographics. The Beautiful Game is loaded with facts, stats, profiles on player personalities, bios, history, and much more to make the beautiful game leap out at you like you've never seen before. Whether it's uncovering the most goals scored in an international tournament, or comparing the left-foot of the world's best players, the intriguing, and often surprising, truths of soccer are completely at your disposal. Who has scored more penalty shots, Ronaldo or Messi? Which goalie has the safest hands? Who has received the most red cards? These striking and fun infographics put the game's most intriguing questions to the test. The perfect gift for avid football fans, whatever team they support!
Download or read book White Space Is Not Your Enemy written by Kim Golombisky and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Space Is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout guide that introduces concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communication across a variety of formats—from web to print. Sections on Gestalt theory, color theory, and WET layout are expanded to offer more in-depth content on those topics. This new edition features new covering current trends in web design—Mobile-first, UI/UX design, and web typography—and how they affect a designer’s approach to a project. The entire book will receive an update using new examples and images that show a more diverse set of graphics that go beyond print and web and focus on tablet, mobile and advertising designs.
Download or read book Ethics for Digital Journalists written by Lawrie Zion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth of online media has led to new complications in journalism ethics and practice. While traditional ethical principles may not fundamentally change when information is disseminated online, applying them across platforms has become more challenging as new kinds of interactions develop between journalists and audiences. In Ethics for Digital Journalists, Lawrie Zion and David Craig draw together the international expertise and experience of journalists and scholars who have all been part of the process of shaping best practices in digital journalism. Drawing on contemporary events and controversies like the Boston Marathon bombing and the Arab Spring, the authors examine emerging best practices in everything from transparency and verification to aggregation, collaboration, live blogging, tweeting and the challenges of digital narratives. At a time when questions of ethics and practice are challenged and subject to intense debate, this book is designed to provide students and practitioners with the insights and skills to realize their potential as professionals.
Download or read book The Periodic Table of FOOTBALL written by Nick Holt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can never take what you love too seriously and The Periodic Table of Football celebrates this fact. Welcome to The Periodic Table of Football. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you’ll find Pelé to Sepp Blatter – 108 elements from the football pantheon arranged by their properties and behaviour on and off the pitch. This expert guide and accompanying poster spans over 150 years to offer an original perspective of the beautiful game.
Download or read book Football Legends 2022 written by David Ballheimer and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computers in Sport written by Peter Dabnichki and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of computers in the sport and exercise sciences is now unquestioned. They are employed in the functioning of laboratory facilities, data collection, data handling and prediction of forthcoming outcomes. Recent advances are strongly affected by current developments in computer science and technology. In particular, progress in hardware (processor speed, storage capacity, communication technology), software (tools), information management concepts (data bases, data mining) and media (internet, eLearning, multimedia) gives a great impetus.This book, written by leading experts in the interdisciplinary field of sport and computer science, provides an overview on current fields of research and application covering fields such as virtual reality, ubiquitous computing, feedback systems and multimedia.
Download or read book World Tourism Directory written by Burkhard Herbote and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burkhard Herbote in association with the World Tourism Organization Now every conceivable association, institution, authority, service, and information center associated with the burgeoning travel trade is systematically listed in a unique Baedeker to the industry itself. This 4th edition puts users in touch with 55,000 sources of interest and information in some 330 countries and territories. Tourism professionals, travel writers, and independent globetrotters will find this directory invaluable on a multitude of fronts -- whether they wish to contact the tourist office in Mombasa or Munich.
Download or read book Football Hackers written by Christoph Biermann and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well written and thoughtful. Takes us on a tour of some of Europe's most innovative football thinkers - Financial Times The future of football is now. Football's data revolution has only just begun. The arrival of advanced metrics and detailed analysis is already reshaping the modern game. We can now fully assess player performance, analyse the role of luck and measure what really leads to victory. There is no turning back. Now the race is on between football's wealthiest clubs and a group of outsiders, nerds and rule-breakers, who are turning the game on its head with their staggering innovations. Winning is no longer just about what happens out on the pitch, it's now a battle taking place in boardrooms and on screens across international borders with the world's brightest minds driving for an edge over their fiercest rivals. Christoph Biermann has moved in the midst of these disruptive upheavals, talking to scientists, coaches, managers, scouts and psychologists in the world's major clubs, traveling across Europe and the US and revealing the hidden - and often jaw-dropping - truths behind the beautiful game. 'A book full of exciting ideas and inside views on modern football. The most exciting book in an exciting time for football.' Thomas Hitzlsperger
Download or read book Soccer Legends 2022 written by David Ballheimer and published by Mortimer Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The top 100 stars in modern soccer. The book offers facts and stats of players operating in Europe's top leagues, with records presented concisely and with the use of infographics. The chapters are divided into player positions, namely defenders, midfielders, strikers, goalkeepers, plus there's a final chapter that profiles today's top 10 coaches. The profile-per-page is visually arresting, packed with incisive data, which the reader can use to compare and contrast the achievements and technical merits of the current icons of the beautiful game.
Download or read book Mathletics written by Wayne L. Winston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How math can be used to improve performance and predict outcomes in professional sports Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a power hitter like David Ortiz? Should NFL teams pass or run more often on first downs? Could professional basketball have used statistics to expose the crooked referee Tim Donaghy? Does money buy performance in professional sports? In Mathletics, Wayne Winston describes the mathematical methods that top coaches and managers use to evaluate players and improve team performance, and gives math enthusiasts the practical tools they need to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports—and maybe even gain the outside edge to winning bets. Mathletics blends fun math problems with sports stories of actual games, teams, and players, along with personal anecdotes from Winston's work as a sports consultant. Winston uses easy-to-read tables and illustrations to illuminate the techniques and ideas he presents, and all the necessary math concepts—such as arithmetic, basic statistics and probability, and Monte Carlo simulations—are fully explained in the examples. After reading Mathletics, you will understand why baseball teams should almost never bunt, why football overtime systems are unfair, why points, rebounds, and assists aren't enough to determine who's the NBA's best player—and much, much more. In a new epilogue, Winston discusses the stats and numerical analysis behind some recent sporting events, such as how the Dallas Mavericks used analytics to become the 2011 NBA champions.
Download or read book The Expected Goals Philosophy written by James Tippett and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expected Goals method is football's best-kept secret. The metric gives unparalleled insight into which teams and players are performing at the highest level. Professional gamblers have used Expected Goals to make millions through football betting. Club scouts have used Expected Goals to identify hidden gems in the transfer market. And the media have recently started using Expected Goals to offer more profound insight in their broadcasts. Despite this, most ordinary fans still don't understand what the Expected Goals method is - or appreciate the significant impact that it is set to have on the sport in coming years. Expected Goals (otherwise known as xG) was originally conjured up by a small corner of the online football analytics community. It didn't take long for professional gamblers to begin using xG to predict match outcomes. These bettors utilised the Expected Goals method to turn over hundreds of millions of pounds from the bookmakers. Before long, football clubs had caught on to the ground-breaking insight given by xG. Brentford FC were leaders in this field, managing to assemble a Play-Off-reaching squad on a shoe-string budget. In the last five years, the small West London side have turned over more than £100m in transfer revenue from their use of the Expected Goals method in player recruitment. More recently, the Expected Goals method has been adopted by the media as a form of insight. Fans are finally catching on to the pioneering means of football analysis. Soon enough, anyone who doesn't understand the Expected Goals philosophy will be left behind. "This book will make you watch football differently" - Tobias Pedersen "Possibly the most ground-breaking football book ever written" - Football Impact "A brilliant account of the history and future of Expected Goals" - StatShot
Download or read book The Economics of Sports Betting written by Plácido Rodríguez and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book delves into a number of intriguing issues and addresses several pertinent questions including, should gambling markets be privatized? Is the ‘hot hand’ hypothesis real or a myth? Are the ‘many’ smarter than the ‘few’ in estimating betting odds? How are prices set in fixed odds betting markets? The book also explores the informational efficiency of betting markets and the prevalence of corruption and illegal betting in sports.
