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I divided by possession and made my football data worse

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1145+ words) I spent an evening adjusting football statistics for how much of the ball each team had. The correction was obvious, took ten minutes, and made the result measurably worse. The mistake is not specific to football. It happens any time…...