Mathematicians Explain Sports: Soccer
Soccer goals follow a Poisson distribution; why do they even need the humans?
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Soccer: "Each team generates goals according to a Poisson distribution, typically 0.5 < λ < 1.5." "So where do the humans come in? You could do the whole thing in Excel." "That's what I've been telling them!"