--- product_id: 1211923 title: "The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong" price: "NT$1292" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1211923-the-numbers-game-why-everything-you-know-about-soccer-is store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong **Price:** NT$1292 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - **How much does it cost?** NT$1292 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1211923-the-numbers-game-why-everything-you-know-about-soccer-is) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Moneyball meets Freakonomics in this myth-busting guide to understanding—and winning—the most popular sport on the planet. Innovation is coming to soccer, and at the center of it all are the numbers—a way of thinking about the game that ignores the obvious in favor of how things actually are. In The Numbers Game , Chris Anderson, a former professional goalkeeper turned soccer statistics guru, teams up with behavioral analyst David Sally to uncover the numbers that really matter when it comes to predicting a winner. Investigating basic but profound questions—How valuable are corners? Which goal matters most? Is possession really nine-tenths of the law? How should a player’s value be judged?—they deliver an incisive, revolutionary new way of watching and understanding soccer. Review: After reading this book you'll see the old game through new perspective - This book is a must for any football fan - it changes the way you see the game for rest of your life. Having read countless of sports books, this one stands out as exceptionally insightful and brings something uniquely fresh to the table on topic that I thought there's nothing new to write about. The explanations on different aspects of the game this book gives are so obvious that you can only wonder how you got them so wrong all those years. And I promise: after reading it, you'll never again join the crowd to cheer for an corner. Review: A bit dry but very informative - I'm not an 'advanced statistics' person when it comes to soccer but I found the book very informative and insightful. It's very analytical - hence the dryness - but it gives you reasons to think a little harder about the things happening within a match and provides the relative values of different events, such as how successful corner kicks are versus free kicks and so on. Worth a read. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #588,881 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #132 in Sports Encyclopedias #150 in Sports Reference (Books) #177 in Soccer (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 971 Reviews | ## Images ![The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71auD9QYEiL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ After reading this book you'll see the old game through new perspective *by M***I on July 5, 2015* This book is a must for any football fan - it changes the way you see the game for rest of your life. Having read countless of sports books, this one stands out as exceptionally insightful and brings something uniquely fresh to the table on topic that I thought there's nothing new to write about. The explanations on different aspects of the game this book gives are so obvious that you can only wonder how you got them so wrong all those years. And I promise: after reading it, you'll never again join the crowd to cheer for an corner. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A bit dry but very informative *by T***V on August 29, 2013* I'm not an 'advanced statistics' person when it comes to soccer but I found the book very informative and insightful. It's very analytical - hence the dryness - but it gives you reasons to think a little harder about the things happening within a match and provides the relative values of different events, such as how successful corner kicks are versus free kicks and so on. Worth a read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Riveting *by N***T on December 19, 2025* An eye opening view of the beautiful game. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong - Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma) - Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1211923-the-numbers-game-why-everything-you-know-about-soccer-is](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1211923-the-numbers-game-why-everything-you-know-about-soccer-is) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-10-18*