What are all these numbers for anyway?

We should really have begun this series with the interview below, but we couldn’t get Chris Anderson on the line in time.

Anderson is co-author, along with David Sally, of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong, and he was an obvious man to speak to about the acceptance — or not — of statistics in a game that doesn’t traditionally rely on that kind of data.

Soccer is his frame of reference, but the lessons are easily applicable to Gaelic football and hurling.