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In other sports both teams are expected to score tens, even hundreds of times. In soccer one goal often is enough. Collecting stats for analysis seems entertaining for the observers, but how is that useful for the teams, in a sport that is so dependent on luck?

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Hundreds of times? 100 points in an NBA game is about 50 times on average--you miss 1 out of 2 free throws about as often as you get a three point play, probably. 10 runs is high for a baseball game. 50 points in an NFL game is about ten scoring opportunities, if you figure five touchdowns and five field goals. And yet statistics are meaningful for all of these games, just as they are for soccer.

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