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Published online 3 January 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060102-1
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Underdogs fare better in soccer
English football produces more surprises than American sports.
English soccer is more exciting than any of the main American team sports - and it’s a team of US scientists who say so1.
Eli Ben-Naim of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and his colleagues say that soccer matches in the English premier league are more likely to produce upsets, with the underdog winning, than matches in the major leagues of American football, baseball, hockey and basketball.
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