I didn't realize soccer players were so much shorter than a lot of North American athletes in hockey, basketball, American football, and baseball.<p>For example, the average height of Brazil's team is 181.7 cm or 5 foot 10, whereas I wouldn't be surprised if most North American sports teams had an average height of 6 feet (much higher for basketball).<p>Of course, if I look at Team USA's stats, the average is 6 feet.<p>Also interesting to note is that the goaltender on most teams is the tallest guy.
There's a real height, and there's a "listed" height. A lot of people say that the "listed" height is often very wrong. Sometimes by several inches and more for certain organizations that aren't really particular about getting an accurate height.
This kind of visualisation screams for a "small multiples" display not spread over 5+ pages. How are you supposed to get a full picture with a layout like this?!<p>Is the data available? What's the source?
FYI, the link to the LoTR project[0] on the about page is broken.<p>[0]: <a href="http://ejoh.se/worldcup2014/lotrproject.com" rel="nofollow">http://ejoh.se/worldcup2014/lotrproject.com</a>
spain really has a disproportionnate amount of small players. That's why they use such a different kind of game (which i like a lot), with many fast short passes rather that long kick reaching the head.<p>I'm really surprised by their poor performance at this world cup. Does anyone here analyzing this set of stats can see another difference that would explain this bad result ?