On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:45:07 +0100, Professor Bill Hillier
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>We need to know the pass length distribution for
>each side.
Dear Bill,
Sounds fascinating -please tell us more...
Best Regards,
Rui
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Dr. Rui Carvalho
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/rui/
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
University College London
1-19 Torrington Place
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>It looks as though Englands are
>predominantly short, with a few long ones which
>always fail, while Croatia's are both less short
>and less long. England's concentration of short
>passes must necessarily be associated with a
>concentration in the middle of the field, and
>this in turn seems to lead to a 'shortest path'
>approach to goal. Croatia's rather longer passes
>use more of the field, as they must, and their
>approach to goal seems topological and angular
>rather than shortest path, and so they tend to
>approach the goal from all over the field.
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>I'm making this up as I go along, and I'm sure
>someone can do better. But I do suspect that the
>distribution of pass lengths might be critical,
>and be necessarily associated with the overall
>morphology of the game as the images show so
>graphically. - Bill
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>>Can anyone explain the attached?
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