Episode #5: David Sally (The Numbers Game)




Soccermetrics Podcast show

Summary: David Sally is a trained behavioral economist, visiting professor at the Tuck School of Management at Dartmouth College, and the co-author (with Chris Anderson) of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer is Wrong. In this episode, we discuss David's interests in behavioral economics and how they influence his approach to soccer analytics, his path to becoming a soccer fan, and some of the counterintuitive findings presented in The Numbers Game.