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LMAO

Should the corner kick be eliminated from soccer?

"The first step was to analyze data provided on the FIFA World Cup website. They provide videos of all goals scored as well as statistics on the number of corner kicks attempted. There were 145 goals scored in the World Cup. Of the 627 corner kicks that were attempted, 271 connected with an offensive player (43%). Of those, 9 goals were scored from a corner played into the penalty area resulting in a shot. That’s a ratio of 1 goal scored for every 70 corners taken. Part of the difficulty with this analysis is defining how a goal is scored from a corner kick. Many consider more than one pass beyond the corner kick as free play. Others consider any goal scored where the run of play was initiated with a corner to have resulted from the corner. For example, a poor clearance by a defender that results in a successful shot could be attributed to the corner kick. Likewise a short corner that is touched a few times then played into the box and headed in might also be considered. If you also count goals that resulted from poor clearances (5) and from short corners (2), a total of 14 goals resulted from corner kicks. This brings the ratio down to 1 goal for every 45 corners attempted.

Using this approach, corner kicks accounted for as few as 6% or many as 10% of the goals scored during the 2010 World Cup and corner kicks resulted in a goal once every 4.5 to 7 matches."

http://www.scienceofsocceronline.com...y-numbers.html

I don't know offhand how many matches were played in the World Cup. But that's 9 scores on 627 attempts, give or take.

Amazing to see the numbers :hmmm:

I'm piecing together some stats here. According to this (http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/po...-effect-on-nfl), 1374 kickoffs were returned in 2011. So 10 scores on 1374 returns, that's roughly half the scoring of corner kicks. Of course that's playoff soccer, with the best teams. I assume that if you look at regular season totals that corner kicks would result in less scoring, as the overall quality of play would be lower.

For me, soccer is below baseball and above NASCAR on my list of terribly boring sports to watch. Are you thinking of Zach?

Should I clap and laugh at you two for not having any idea who you are talking about?

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It's OK. You can admit it. We won't judge you.

I don't disagree with that.

Well, I agree with this, but if you do go down this road, I think that you can't just place the ball for the other team. That wipes out the "on sides kick" option.

I think you could require an actual punt in place of the kickoff. But to keep the on-sides kick like option, you have to allow for a fake punt. And to do that you have to have a 1st down line somewhere.

Actually, I think I might have just walked through the arc of their own thinking on this.

All of this assumes that something about the punt formation makes for a significantly lower risk for brain injuries than KO's. If that's not true, then either you need to be keeping the KO or getting rid of both KO and PR's.

Again, what does the data say?

I don't care much what you think about me, but I don't talk about, never played, and couldn't care less about soccer. I'm not your guy on that.

|Zach| is the resident soccer fan.

But in any case, feel free to think what ever you want about me on that or anything else.

Completely agree.

Well that would do away with onside kicks too

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