Soccermatics: how maths explains football | David Sumpter | TEDxUppsalaUniversity

Behavioural mathematician and popular science writer, David Sumpter, applies his models of collective behaviour in fish, birds and ants to understanding soccer. Find out the mathematical structures behind the beautiful game.
As behavioural mathematician he applies his models of collective behaviour in shoaling fish and slime molds to other areas such as football.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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Liverpool, especially since klopp, already had division dedicated to data analyst under the Michael Edward. Their analysis made Liverpool performance in transfer market skyrocketed.

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I wish he actually gave some math examples of findings.

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That’s My football trainer wohoo

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The audience have a lack of sense of humour.

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What happened to his shirt?

[@mikhailklimov100]

One of the football magic is a score and combination of 0, 1, 2, 3... as a Poisson distribution

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👍⚽🌎MATHS

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Funny video surprised that the audience isn’t laughing louder

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Know nothing about soccer but dress up as alike a cyber look!

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i'm not the first comment

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ants, animals

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Scouser 😂😂😂

[@andyhatfield1071]

Pretty self indulgent, not really any mathematics shown!!