{"id":2578,"date":"2014-07-31T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:09:43","slug":"world-cup-science-goalkeepers-follow-predicable-patterns-during-shootouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/world-cup-science-goalkeepers-follow-predicable-patterns-during-shootouts\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup science: Goalkeepers follow predicable patterns during shootouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Soccer goalkeepers in penalty shootouts behave in a predictable way, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors analysed all 361 kicks from the 37 penalty shootouts that occurred in World Cup and Euro Cup matches over a 36-year period (1976-2012). They found out that following repeated kicks in the same direction, goalkeepers became increasingly likely to dive in the opposite direction on the next kick, a behaviour known as the \u2018gambler\u2019s fallacy\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors note that kickers failed to exploit these goalkeeper biases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(14)00839-2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Current Biology<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 31, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Erman Misirlisoy, University College London,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patrick Haggard, University College London, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer goalkeepers in penalty shootouts behave in a predictable way, a new study shows. The authors analysed all 361 kicks from the 37 penalty shootouts that occurred in World Cup and Euro Cup matches over a 36-year period (1976-2012). They found out that following repeated kicks in the same direction, goalkeepers became increasingly likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1647,2042,1494,2041],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-human-behaviour","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-FA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}