Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a professor at Cornell University and the co-author of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong. Follow him on Twitter.

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Aug. 12 2013 7:55 AMThe Great LevelingWhy soccer teams score fewer goals than they did 100 years ago.Chris Anderson and David Sally

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