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The second part is not quite true. It's called soccer in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa (and sometimes in Ireland), Calcio in Italy, Sakkā in Japan, Zu Qiu in China... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
In Aus and Nz, the recent trend has been to use Football than Soccer, the national associations has been renamed accordingly.
Can someone explain what this is and the significance of Carlsen's achievement to someone completely and utterly clueless about football?
It's a very luck based game, or so it seems. With 7 million players. But last year the world chess champion was top-100 and now he's (at this particular moment) first.
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Memory and intuitive reasoning definitely helps in both, though another part is luck: Carlsen's skilled, but he also has made some incredibly lucky guesses.
What do you think luck is?
Unlike chess, games with humans aren't fixed: there's luck inherent to them.
Interesting that he mentions a stats-based approach, calling out provider Opta by name: https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1204105872668016642
Sounds like a clever marketing scheme from Opta.
Sometimes even I am surprised the details of those stats, like passes by an individual player, distance covered etc.
This is his account (not updated yet) https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/event/17 He was climbing really well https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/history
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It's a very luck based game, or so it seems. With 7 million players. But last year the world chess champion was top-100 and now he's (at this particular moment) first.
Being good at managing uncertain outcomes is not luck though, although the difference between that and luck is nuanced and this often gets lost in discussion.
This is his account (not updated yet) https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/event/17 He was climbing really well https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/history
- Picking Salah and making him captain makes sense because of his form uptick and the opposition being someone he scores against.
- So did keeping Leicester and Sheffield players, though he was unlucky with the unexpected result at Leicester.
- I am surprised he kept Alli in but left the Wolves player out, I would expect Wolves to score and possibly win as well. But he is #1, so we will find out tomorrow.
This is his account (not updated yet) https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/event/17 He was climbing really well https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/history
Salah in midfield? Say what?
Though in the 4-2-3-1 Liverpool played today Salah was the most forward player.
This is his account (not updated yet) https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/event/17 He was climbing really well https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/1908330/history
Salah in midfield? Say what?
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Sounds like a clever marketing scheme from Opta.
I doubt it is. Opta is probably what most publications and broadcasters use as well. I don't think there is anyone else who collects stats that deep across so many leagues. Sometimes even I am surprised the details of those stats, like passes by an individual player, distance covered etc.