In sports, we always hear about sophomore slump. Let's examine if soccer players exhibit sophomore slump.
The below table lists performance of each player in his rookie year and sophomore year.
For this analysis, only thoes players are considered who played more than one WorldCup Tournament.
Only 16.8% of the players exhibited sophomore slump. Sophomore slump is not prevelent in Soccer FIFA WorldCup Tournament.
After looking at above tbale, we might become curious about how players' performance in each of their WorldCup Tournament. Below graph shows Number of goals scored by top 9 players in each WorldCup Tournament they participated.
This makes us curious about the general trend; as player grows old and gains experience, how his performance would change.
SOPHOMORE SLUMP
