Which of the Big Five European Soccer Leagues Has the Lowest Draw Percentage?

In soccer league matches, a draw is quite often a bad result for both teams, since a win awards three points and a draw just one point each. As soccer analytics advances, a natural hypothesis is that the draw rate drops over time, as teams realize that the reward of scoring a goal in a tied game late greatly outweighs the risk of conceding and suffering defeat. In this analysis, I’ll take a closer look at the draw rates in the Big 5 leagues over the past two decades and comment on what the trends suggest about the development of analytics in each league.

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