A Simple Game Plan
By: WC Bob | March 5th, 2006 | No Comments »
As much as I hate numbers, I love people who crunch them to demonstrate a point. For example, the Climbing the Ladder blog shows that World Cup winners throughout history share the common trait of rarely falling behind in matches. I wonder why more teams don’t think of that.
Minutes Behind
| Total | Pct | ||
| 1930 | Uruguay | 31 | 8.6% |
| 1934 | Italy | 19 | 3.7% |
| 1938 | Italy | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1950 | Uruguay | 124 | 34.4% |
| 1954 | W.Germany | 99 | 18.3% |
| 1958 | Brazil | 6 | 1.1% |
| 1962 | Brazil | 39 | 7.2% |
| 1966 | England | 6 | 1.1% |
| 1970 | Brazil | 38 | 7.0% |
| 1974 | W.Germany | 63 | 10.0% |
| 1978 | Argentina | 28 | 4.2% |
| 1982 | Italy | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1986 | Argentina | 28 | 4.4% |
| 1990 | W.Germany | 0 | 0.0% |
| 1994 | Brazil | 23 | 3.5% |
| 1998 | France | 1 | 0.1% |
| 2002 | Brazil | 27 | 4.3% |
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