It is easy to miss the Match Momentum graphic the Fox network stamps onto its World Cup broadcasts. The graph pops up only on rare occasion, wedged into the bottom-left corner, less than a third of the height and width of the screen. Often it appears only so briefly that the commentators never make a…
  • Vampire [any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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    2 days ago

    It is a statistic provided by Stats Perform/Opta, a sports data and AI (presumably in the machine-learning sense) company, that provided a full explainer.

    That explainer gets to the point quicker.

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s not the math or methods in question, it’s the purpose. If I’m watching the game, the momentum graph doesn’t tell me anything new or useful