"What we're saying is 'imagine there were these 10,000 different realities, here's how often in these 10,000 different realities this thing would have happened'." West Bromwich Albion were likely to finish second at 43.9%, while they would top the table 39.6% of the time. "Sport, as well as the general economy, is people making decisions, and those decisions have an affect on outcomes," adds Professor Reade. "All these different decisions taken under pressure lead to particular outcomes occurring and that's the case in sport as well. "A lot of the ways we think about things in economics are readily applicable in sport, and equally because sport is well measured.

Source: BBC May 02, 2020 08:15 UTC