When we watch a soccer game, it's very rare not to witness one of the most frequent bad habits in this sport: diving. It consists in having the referee believe we suffered a foul, when actually it is absolutely not true.
During the 2014 World Cup in Brasil, journalists from the Wall Street Journal decided to count how much time the players spent collapsing and staying on the ground. For every foul, they measured the amount of time that elapsed between the ref's whistle blow and the moment the player got back up. They found a total of 132 accumulated minutes, in the space of 32 games. Out of the 302 players involved in this time on the ground, only 9 were then replaced or couldn't play the following game.
So why do soccer players dive so much? Here is a video explanation with this third episode of our series "Datafoot".
Sources :
« Receivers Limit the Prevalence of Deception in Humans : Evidence from Diving Behaviour in Soccer Players » - David GK, Condon CH, Bywater CL, Ortiz-Barrientos D, Wilson RS (2011)
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« The World Cup Flopping Rankings » - The Wall Street Journal https ://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-rankings-of-flopping-1403660175
« The Number Game : Why everything you know about football is wrong » - David Sally et Chris Anderson.
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