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It was the British [b]Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli[/b] who first told the world that there are three kinds of lies - "lies, damned lies, and statistics". Well, actually, it wasn't. Disraeli was who Mark Twain claimed said it first, but there's no evidence to back that up - the phrase doesn't appear in print until ten years after Disraeli died in 1881. So that's another lie then. I thought of all that when I heard on Friday night that former Wimbledon striker Jon Goodman had invented the [b]"Performance League"[/b], billed as a thought provoking example of "sabermetrics", analysing detailed data to produce forecasts. Goodman puts 3,000 different statistics from every Premier League match into his melting pot. He said Arsenal will win the League, Manchester City won't even make the...