Premier League Game Changer

I wanted to build an app for demo purposes that shows how you can conduct What If analysis in Qlik Sense, I just needed a theme…

It isn’t really that long ago since Jimmy Hill introduced the the 3 points for a win system to English football in 1981 in an effort to encourage attacking play and tackle the issue dwindling crowds.  Big hitters like Germany, Spain, Brazil and Argentina didn’t introduce the system until as recently as 1995.  Nowadays it’s hard to think that teams only got 2 points following victory.  Some pundits have argued that it actually stifled attacking play; causing teams that went 1-0 ahead to “park the bus” and protect their precious points.

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