World Cup Fans We Timed every game - from 538 - fascinating

[malaise]

https://fivethirtyeig,mht.com/features/world-cup-stoppage-time-is-wildly-inaccurate/

[NCTraveler]

1. Link isn't working for me. nt

[malaise]

2. Here's another link

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/world-cup-stoppage-time-is-wildly-inaccurate/

[NCTraveler]

4. Thank you. Love the chart.

I'm a soccer fan. Always have been. I was a bit taken back by the "Minutes Ball in Field" column. I knew it was well under regulation time, for obvious reasons, I did not know it was that low.

[canetoad]

5. Try this one

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/world-cup-stoppage-time-is-wildly-inaccurate/

[sandensea]

3. The same can be said for a lot of those referee calls.

Of course, that all depends on whom you're rooting for.

[BeyondGeography]

6. I love soccer but they're just making it up as they go along sometimes

Injured players, e.g. There’s an honor system, except when there’s not. “Sorry about that guy writhing on the other end of the field, but we got something going with the ball here, so that’ll just have to wait.”

[malaise]

7. The foul throws are not being called

That has pissed off all my friends who played and coached youngsters.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. Fits what we always estimated in Las Vegas

That stoppage time should be nearly doubled. I remember having a discussion about that on a radio sports handicapping program in the late '80s.

I'm beyond stunned that there was actually one game with more added time than warranted. I have never seen that in the games I have clocked.