Sports Geek is a visual and numerical tour through sporting debates and ideas.
Sport revolves around two things: narrative and numbers. You need the narrative, otherwise why would anyone care about sport? Rivalries, emotions, and sporting legends all require it. But sport also needs numbers. Without them, we have no idea who has won. We need numbers to tell which team is top of the table, or who is the world champion.
Teams in all sports use data to create extraordinary analysis of how their players perform, to assess tactics and to get an edge over arch rivals; but fans are rarely presented with challenging and informative data that would help them to further understand sport.
You'll never see sport the same way again.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Perfect toilet book -- Chris Evans * BBC Radio 2 * Have you ever wondered why the quality of snooker is so much better now than it was in its Eighties heyday? Or who is, statistically, the greatest ever pound-for-pound boxer? Of course you have. This compilation of sport stats and data has all the answers and much, much more * GQ * Good fun -- Hawksbee and Jacobs * talkSPORT * This revealing read raises a lot of key points to consider in the world of sport. * How It Works * For an alternative explanation of the special appeal of sport try Sports Geek by Rob Minto which in words, statistics and pictures explains what it is about sport that will provoke endless arguments in the coming year * Philosophy Football *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Höhe: 250 mm
Breite: 194 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4729-2749-1 (9781472927491)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Rob Minto is a journalist who has worked at the Financial Times for 10 years. In 2006 he became the paper's first Interactive Editor. He has also been Technology Correspondent, and most recently Emerging Markets Assistant Editor, as well as writing occasional features and columns.
Rob has been obsessed about sport and statistics for many years. He is a journalist who can also design, write code, and crunch data using strange programmes.
He has four children and lives in London.
@robminto
Introduction
1 Football
2 The Olympics
3 Baseball
4 Athletics
5 Rugby
6 American Football
7 Cricket
8 Golf
9 Snooker
10 Tennis
11 Cycling
12 Rowing
13 Rugby Union
14 Basketball
15 Swimming
16 Horse racing
17 Ice hockey
18 Boxing
19 Winter sports
20 Netball
21 F1
Index
Statistical glossary
Sources
Acknowledgements
