Outside the Box: OptaJoe’s 25 Years of the Premier League

Outside the Box: A Statistical Journey Through the History of Football (2017) by Duncan Alexander is a season by season statistical trip through the history of the Premier League. Alexander works for the statistical service Opta.Each season gets a chapter that has various stats about the season included at the end. There are also interludes on Liverpool and each season of their failure to win a title, title defences, Arsene Wenger and various other topics. The book is a bit like a series of Opta tweets joined together. It's actually a bit taxing to read as it doesn't really flow.For anyone interested in the Premier League it's worth a read, it's not as good as 'The Mixer' but it is well worth a look.

Did not meet my expectations. With a referential image to OptaPro I expected some cool info graphics, new insight based on statistical investigation, but all I got was a written history of the premier league and some tidbits of data. This was a history book... I felt mislead

Great book, enjoyed it enormously. All chapters around the Premier League are so rich of curious facts that it's impossible to remember them all, still the reading is very smooth and funny. That's the main reason I liked it, the way Alexander writes, it does put a smile on your face, whoever you support. The chapters about Liverpool (with an homage to David Peace style), Wenger and World Cup are sensational, especially the first one even if i expect Scousers to disagree.

Great book. Great stats.

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Excellent

Brilliant.