Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Tabell 4. Rank fotboll matches.
Rank fotboll matches, 1-5, where 5=best Average Participant number
ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A match with your Swedish favourite team 2.3 3 - 1 2 5 2 2 1 2
A match with the Swedish national team (men) 4.3 4 - 5 5 4 4 3 5 4
A match with the Swedish national team (women) 2.1 1 - 2 4 1 1 1 2 5
A champions league match 3.1 2 - 4 1 3 5 5 4 1
A World Championship if Sweden do not participate 3.3 5 - 3 3 2 3 4 3 3
The participants thougth, on average, that the most entertaining matches are those where there are many
goals (table 5). Although football is a sport with pretty few scores compared to other sports and to the end,
according to the source above, is more uncertain in matches with less scores. Moreover, it is often more
goals in the much less popular, lower divisions than in the higher (figure 1). The most hardcore football
consumers of the respondents rated however, all the "players are attuned" as the most important factor in
whether a game is entertaining. Attuned players are apparently good at knowing where they have each other.
Which means that the attacks are straighter and faster, and thus the game more action-filled. Perhaps thats
the meaning of sports consumption for the relatively many who follow European club football at the top
level, with no private or national affinity to the teams.
Table 5. Rank fotball matches.
Rank fotball matches, 1-5, where 5=best Average Participant number
ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Many goals 3.9 5 - 1 5 4 5 2 4 5
It is even 3.1 4 - 4 4 2 2 3 2 4
Many free kicks 1.9 1 - 5 1 3 1 1 1 2
They play very tight 3.4 2 - 2 2 5 3 5 5 3
Many famous players 2.8 3 - 3 3 1 4 4 3 1
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5
Average number of goals per match
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3
2
1
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Allsvenskan Superettan Div. 1 norra Div. 2
Div. 3
Göteborg A
Div. 4
Göteborg A
Div. 5
Göteborg A
Div. 6
Göteborg B
Div. 7
Chart 1. The average number of goals/game in 2011 from the top and down down in the Swedish serial system for
men’s fotball.
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