Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread
I was checking the article from 2020 and they're studying Messi's performance in different seasons however during all these seasons he was playing for Barcelona but this shows us how stable was Messi's performance in the different seasons. But he had this situation until 2020 and now is in 2023 when even Messi's performance is not the same unstable anymore. It will be even worst in the next years.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37583978/ronaldinho-barcelona-understudy-goat-candidate
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37583978/ronaldinho-barcelona-understudy-goat-candidate
Freaky statistic in my opinion. If a player made 5 successful dribbles, but it was 5 successful attempts out of 100, then all these actions were at a loss for the team. Miracles of univariate analysis when, with the right approach, you can achieve any result you want and pass off bad indicators as good ones. I'm not saying that Messi was consistently bad, but such statistics are only annoying.