Interactively discussing Fussballfieber wissenschaftlich betrachtet (Football fever viewed scientifically) at the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft" ("Long Night of Science") 2010 of the University of Leipzig (24 September 2010). Andreas Nußbaumer playing table football with visitors (left) and presenting our statistical results for the FIFA World Championships (right).

The presented material is based on joint work published in:

• E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke, and M. Weigel,
  Self-Affirmation Model for Football Goal Distributions,
  Europhys. Lett. 78, 58002 (2007) [online] [arXiv:0705.2724 (physics.soc-ph)].

• E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke, and M. Weigel,
  Fußballfieber beim Wissenschaftssommer: Eine mathematisch-empirische Nachlese,
  Universität Leipzig Journal 5/2008, 22 (2008) [online] (in German).

• E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke, and M. Weigel,
  Football Fever: Goal Distributions and Non-Gaussian Statistics,
  Eur. Phys. J. B67, 459 (2009) [online] [arXiv:physics/0606016 (physics.soc-ph),
  discussed by Michael Hopkin in Nature News Feature article Goal Beget Goals, Nature 441, 793 (2006) [online].

• W. Janke, E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, and M. Weigel,
  Football Fever: Self-Affirmation Model for Goal Distributions,
  Condens. Matter Phys. 12, 739 (2009) [online]
  (invited talk, Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Statistical Physics: Modern Trends and Applications StatPhys09, Lviv, Ukraine, 23-25 June 2009).