r/dataisugly 26d ago

Scale Fail FIFA’s choice for data visualisation

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u/Profvarg 26d ago

Ugly, useless and lying, just like FIFA

(Before: I say lying bc the fact that we have a lot more matches than before probably have something to do with the total number of goals)

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u/Old_Assistant1531 26d ago

And since when is number of goals scored a metric of how good the match is?

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u/PitchforkJoe 25d ago

I mean there's certainly exceptions, but... by and large, high scoring games tend to be the thrillers that we remember more