Let’s look at ten basic principles of football and see how they connect with complexity. Here I use the term complexity as it is used in information theory and cybernetics. A cybernetic system has a higher complexity when there is more variation. With less variation there is less complexity. Variation is a measure for the…

Our brain is a Bayesian biocomputer that foresees the future. Or to put it more precisely: the workings of our brain can best be described with Bayesian statistics. That is why philosophers, psychiatrists and neuroscientists now talk about the Bayesian brain. At the lowest level the workings of brain cells can best be described with…

In football it is very important to pay attention to actual behavior rather than cognitivist constructs. Behavior can be distinguished between internal and external behavior. To check to see whether something is external behavior there is the MARCO acronym: M stands for measurable. External behavior can be counted. Passing is external behavior as it can…

Everyone is biased. There are explicit biases and implicit biases. Explicit biases are at least recognized by the people surrounding you and if you are honest with yourself also by you. Implicit biases are unconscious and, by definition, cannot be known. Though there are tests that will show you how your implicit biases influences your…