{"id":15067,"date":"2014-07-03T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15067"},"modified":"2014-07-03T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T08:00:13","slug":"the-analysis-is-messy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15067","title":{"rendered":"A Messy Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/lionel-messi-is-impossible\/\">Lionel Messi Is Impossible<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI arrived at a conclusion that I wasn\u2019t really expecting or prepared for: Lionel Messi is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not possible to shoot more efficiently from outside the penalty area than many players shoot inside it. It\u2019s not possible to lead the world in weak-kick goals and long-range goals. It\u2019s not possible to score on unassisted plays as well as the best players in the world score on assisted ones. It\u2019s not possible to lead the world\u2019s forwards both in taking on defenders and in dishing the ball to others. And it\u2019s certainly not possible to do most of these things by insanely wide margins.<\/p>\n<p>But Messi does all of this and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi Is Impossible I arrived at a conclusion that I wasn\u2019t really expecting or prepared for: Lionel Messi is impossible. It\u2019s not possible to shoot more efficiently from outside the penalty area than many players shoot inside it. It\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}