Scoring rates of soccer competitions

Major Project ¨C Performance of Professional European Soccer Clubs

The English Premier League, England¡¯s professional soccer league has long been considered one of the most difficult, lucrative, competitive and most loved soccer leagues in the world. So much is this fact that many people associate soccer immediately with England or one of its smaller teams. Sometimes even individual players such as David Beckham or Thierry Henry symbolise the game in England. Even if now the season has ended for the English Premier League has ended, there still are leagues all around the world, playing for the glory that comes for being the soccer champions of their nation. There are leagues established in every continent in the world, and the FIFA World Cup is a cumulation of all these leagues. The world cup is the most widely watched event in the world, and this is one of the reasons why soccer is sometimes considered as the ¡®World Game¡¯.

However, though the English Premier League has...