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That seems odd; we play every other Pac-12 team once, so you would assume that the schedule would just alternate home/away in even and odd years, no?

On the other point about attacking down the center or the sides, the article I linked had some data...

The same goes for trying to spearhead an offense from the wings instead of attacking up the middle. In their book, Anderson and Sally write about a seminal piece of quantitative analysis on the 1986 World Cup from researcher Mike Hughes: “Successful teams played a passing game through the middle in their own half and approached the other end of the pitch predominantly in the central areas of the field, while the unsuccessful teams played significantly more to the wings.” The numbers from the 2013-14 season in Europe’s “Big Four” leagues6 bear this out as well. The percentage of a team’s attacks made up the middle did have a moderately positive7 relationship to its scoring rate relative to the league average, while the relationship between wing attacks and scoring was of the same magnitude and in the negative direction.

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[BostonCard]

That seems odd; we play every other Pac-12 team once, so you would assume that the schedule would just alternate home/away in even and odd years, no?

On the other point about attacking down the center or the sides, the article I linked had some data...

The same goes for trying to spearhead an offense from the wings instead of attacking up the middle. In their book, Anderson and Sally write about a seminal piece of quantitative analysis on the 1986 World Cup from researcher Mike Hughes: “Successful teams played a passing game through the middle in their own half and approached the other end of the pitch predominantly in the central areas of the field, while the unsuccessful teams played significantly more to the wings.” The numbers from the 2013-14 season in Europe’s “Big Four” leagues6 bear this out as well. The percentage of a team’s attacks made up the middle did have a moderately positive7 relationship to its scoring rate relative to the league average, while the relationship between wing attacks and scoring was of the same magnitude and in the negative direction.

BC