{"id":11083,"date":"2014-06-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2014-06-23T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T03:42:13","slug":"why-players-miss-penalty-shoot-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-players-miss-penalty-shoot-outs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Players Miss Penalty Shoot-Outs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/061914_0236_WhyPlayersM1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Players from the Czech Republic have never missed a single penalty shoot-out, while Germans have won all their World Cup shoot-outs. In contrast the British and the Dutch are pretty shoddy at them. Why the difference? The Economist offered its perspective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoot-outs are individualistic and allow time for thinking \u2013 unlike the rest of the game. It is a test of nerve, not athleticism.<\/li>\n<li>Shoot-out results might have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. English and Dutch players may have internalized the idea that they&#8217;re bad at shoot-outs, and so they don&#8217;t train for them causing players to miss even more of them.<\/li>\n<li>It might also be about culture. Collectivist cultures are better at shoot-outs than individualistic ones. This is because those from a collectivist culture know that if they fail they won&#8217;t have to shoulder the blame alone.<\/li>\n<li>This is probably also the reason why star players are worse at them than unknown ones. The star ones know they will get a lot of attention if they fail.<\/li>\n<li>There are other types of pressures. Teams that go first in shoot-outs have the advantage since catching up to a score is more stressful than leading it.<\/li>\n<li>Players are also more likely to flub a shot which would prevent them losing a match, than one which lets them win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the different psychological factors affecting performance, the role of &#8220;emotional contagion&#8221; and what players should do to be successful at shoot-outs over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21604198-how-handle-pressure-lessons-penalty-shoot-outs-english-disease?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21604198-how-handle-pressure-lessons-penalty-shoot-outs-english-disease?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players from the Czech Republic have never missed a single penalty shoot-out, while Germans have won all their World Cup shoot-outs. In contrast the British and the Dutch are pretty shoddy at them. Why the difference? The Economist offered its perspective: Shoot-outs are individualistic and allow time for thinking \u2013 unlike the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/061914_0236_WhyPlayersM1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11089,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions\/11089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}