Belief by the Numbers What Modern Fandom Teaches Us About Hope and Risk

Every fan knows the feeling. The rush before a match, the quiet optimism that maybe this is the day when everything clicks. Sports have always been about faith, faith in teams, in players, in something larger than reason. But somewhere along the way, faith learned to speak the language of numbers.These days, the conversations around sport sound a lot like investment talk. People trade in stats and data instead of stories. They discuss probabilities and win percentages the way they once talked ab