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Lies, damned lies and statistics 2:39pm on 10 Oct 2008 ' Another myth that can be exploded is the notion that teams run a greater risk of conceding a goal after scoring. Prof Ayton said "We analysed hundreds of games where the final score was 1-1 and found this wasn't the case". '

Am I missing something? If they analysed 100 games that finished 1-1 then surely in each match one team conceded a goal after scoring one themselves. Any other sequence of events can't surely lead to a 1-1 result!!!

This has undermined my faith in Prof Ayton entirely.

Also, if a goal keeper stands in the middle of the goal because of the stats saying most shots go down the middle then the trend will start to change because people will learn that this goalkeeper simply stands still.

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