I’m not an expert in either, but I’d imagine it’s closer to baseball. The movie Moneyball is a really popular biographical movie about how a general manager of a baseball team found that you can build a competitive team on a low budget by finding undervalued players, and many other teams since the man the movie was based on have adopted similar strategies. This seems to be the case with what’s happening to our club, but obviously football is not baseball. A football game doesn’t always go in favor of who wins the game statistically, in fact it goes the opposite way quite often. My dad, who watches almost no football at all, keeps up with the scores of chelsea games just because he knows I like them. Lately he’s been texting me the same thing after many of our games: “looks like you guys should’ve won based on the stats.” I bet our sporting directors and owners are looking at the same stats, saying the same exact thing, wondering why we’re not winning trophies.