Recent content by MCdread

I'm not an enzymologist in any way (and certainly not a clinical one), but hopefully these answers will make sense, and won't be (too) wrong. Yes, they're catalysts with a complex make-up (depending on what that means exactly, and depending on the specific enzyme too), but they're not...

That was also due to Enzo Perez, I think. Zabaleta has the work rate but not the mobility and vision to pull it off. Hence, whenever they need to move the ball up through a full back they mainly use Rojo on the opposite side. He doesn't have a modicum of Zabaleta's tactical discipline (e.g., go...

Ozil, Sanchez and Khedira? Is Arsenal trying to build a team with all the misused and misunderstood players of Barcelona and Real Madrid? ;)

It's also because Argentina has huge problems in organising their attack from deep. That's why Di Maria's injury was so important. He was the main solution to carry the ball from their hard, but poor on the ball, defenders to their stars in attack. Now it's unclear how they're gonna solve this...

P.S.: And all hail the most unexpected prototype of the modern footballer: Müller. He's not especially skilful in a traditional sense with ball at his feet, he's not physically imposing, he's not a real striker. He's a very intelligent player who always knows what is the best thing to do at any...

Tiki taka didn't show up out of nothing. Aspects of it have been anticipated by the likes of van Gaal and Mourinho, yes Mourinho (but only in the first 5 years of his career or so), then Guardiola showed up. And now you have people like Klopp playing something that apparently has no connections...

The third option is this happens... :eek: The manner and numbers of the defeat might obfuscate some of the necessary soul-searching, and it was of course a freakish result. Germany is a better team, but not 7-1 better. I also feel sorry for the players and the public (but not for Scolari...

While I disagree somewhat with the details of your main points (the timeline is a bit sketchy, and the alleged dichotomy between "European football" and "jogo bonito" is a charicature), this is a good and interesting general conclusion. It appears that many people are upset with Brazil's...

Going beyond the ridiculous penalty (and as Darkness points out, the disappointing impression that any 50-50 call always favoured the home team*), I see Scolari is still in the past. Put a bunch of night club bouncers in there to scare the opposition off, and complement that with a semi-random...

That's not the point.* The point is a lot of people jumped on Sneijder's bandwagon at the time (here's one out of dozens of examples). The logic was Inter won everything (and Holland did well), so the player who's perceived by the media and fans as being the most flamboyant in the team gets to...

When did this idea that Ribéry is the unmatched genius of Bayern, the leader, the guy who carried them over the line and more than anyone guided them to glory, etc. emerge? It certainly is accepted wisdom now, but would be interesting to track its development. (Must have be similar to the...

With the squad Bayern (will) have, any competition they don't win has to be considered an epic failure. And it's getting to the point where that will include the CL too. Especially if they get a strong centre back to improve on what they have. Raiding Dortmund again and getting Subotic would be...

Yeah, that's the integration you need to do for Mise's scenario 1. For the general case, where you sample C in range [C_min, C_max] (with 0 < C_min < 1; 0 < C_max < 1), you do the same thing and integrate z in [C_min, C_max]. But with p_c(z) corrected by a factor that reflects "player C's loss...

;) Yeah. Mathematically, and for any C_min and C_max between 0 and 1, you just have to calculate what the mean of y = C^2 would be for a large number of trials (so long as you sample from uniform distributions of course).

Another way of seeing it, although not sure it's the clearest intuition is: At each round, the chance C wins given it's current value is C^2. If C is fixed at 0.5 (scenario 2), then the probability is 1/4 as you say. Imagine that you now allow C to fluctuate a bit (but uniformly !) around 0.5...