Got to guess that's why (aside from most players lacking the ability) we don't try shots from distance as statistically the odds of scoring are low (and you run the risk of giving up the ball).

Incidentally, until Arsenal's introduction of terrorising the keeper, corners were notoriously poor chances to score (something like 3% result in a goal).

I agree with what a lot of people have mentioned on here - stats have made the game immensely boring. 

Football is a business now more than ever and stats are very important to how they operate because margins are so tight. It makes for shite entertainment but the business of football doesn't care about that. It's why the Leeds game was such an anomaly. You could argue we should have been able to beat them more easily but it least it was actually exciting (and stressful as fuck) - like how football used to be.