Poisson Distribution on soccer matches

May 1st, 2009

The text below is taken from http://www.brighton-webs.co.uk/distributions/poisson_football.asp .

Poisson Distribution

The Poisson can be used to model soccer matches.  The graph below shows the the distribution of goals scored by a team playing at home over a season in a league competition.  Their average was 1.00 goals/match.

poisson distribution football

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Poisson distribution on soccer game

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