That’s a shout World Cup enthusiasts don’t hear too frequently.
Soccer’s known for low-scoring games, which makes it difficult to find
an objective means of measuring the skill of top players. In a given
game, a couple might nail a goal or have an assist. But who’s the best
of the best?
This conundrum plagued Luis Amaral as a kid in Portugal. Now, a professor of biology and chemical engineering at Northwestern, he used his team’s computational skills to find the best. The work is in the journal Public Library of Science One. [Jordi Duch, Joshua Waitzman and Luis Amaral, http://bit.ly/azpqyU]
To read the full, original article click on this link: Soccer Players Ranked with Network Analysis: Scientific American Podcast
Author: Cynthia Graber
