Sport science and chances - what would you do if you knew the chances to win?

When you think about chances it is easy to think about gambling. But also in science chances are important. Scientists use statistics to discover which theories are more likely then others. But the notion of chance always remains relatively abstract. What is a chance? And more important; what would you do if you knew the chance? Sport scientist Gert-Jan Pepping studied how you might be able to increase the chances that a team wins in a soccer penalty shootout.

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Science & Technology

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• football
• penalties
• sport
• science
• chances
• research