Football

More recently, statistics and soccer have met head on.

In the nineties stats were used to find correlations between players and their habits, and winning.

But all the attention was on the ball. How many times a player touched it. When they did, what they did with it. Etc.

Then some genius correlated winning to the habits of players off the ball. He found strong correlations to all sorts of things like how many kilometers a defender ran in a match. This helped them hire defenders.

Obviously the coach and ref are next. Then the crowd.

When this is over they will be able to simulate the whole thing in computers and we won’t know the difference.