> The better team is the team that finds a way to win - even if it is weird and flukey and doesn't fit a nice narrative. Except all of sports data science disa

> The better team is the team that finds a way to win - even if it is weird and flukey and doesn't fit a nice narrative. Except all of sports data science disagrees with you. Long term trends say that a team who keeps possession of the ball the majority of the time is the team that is more likely to win. An individual game might suggest otherwise - a team that has the ball 90% of the time can lose to a goal in other 10%. But over 100 games, the trend becomes pretty clear.