What is analysis? Many people analyse football matches. They do that for many different reasons. If you write a football analysis for entertainment than anything you write goes. But if you write to explain football or even better yet, a pro football club is using your analyses for match preparation or training programs to improve…

Associative learning is one of the three ways the brain learns. The other two ways are: imprinting and instrumental learning. Associative learning has been discovered and made famous by Pavlov. For that reason it is also called Pavlovian learning. With associative learning the brain creates a probabilistic relationship between two sense impressions. Associative learning is…

Averages are used a lot in football. Yet, an average lacks a lot of context. A player who scores an average of one goal per match, could have gotten that average by scoring ten goals in the first match (against an easy opponent) and then not scored at all for the next nine matches. So…