You are more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez than a shark
The Uruguay and Liverpool forward keeps biting other players – how much should they worry when they play him?
BY IAN STEADMAN
Uruguay’s Luis Suarez (r) holds his teeth after biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini (l) on the shoulder during a match on 24 June. Photo: Getty Images
Some back-of-the-envelope maths regarding Luis Suarez: according to Wikipedia, he has played in 363 club league, cup and friendly matches since breaking through into the Nacional senior team in the 2005/06 season. He’s also played 78 times for the Uruguay national team.
He has bitten three opposition players in the time it took him to play those 441 senior matches – PSV’s Otman Bakkal in November 2010, Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanović in April 2013, and now Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini in the World Cup game on 24 June. This raises a crucial question: how much risk is a football player taking if Luis Suarez is on the opposition team? You’ve got to know the risks when you get involved in a contact sport, after all.
Let’s crunch some numbers. Suarez’s bite rate of three in 441 means we can expect him to take a bite out of someone every 147 matches, but if we assume that there are 14 players at risk of being bitten (that’s 11 starting players and assuming three substitutes come on) that means Suarez has bitten three players out of the 6,160 who have lined up against him in his professional career.
We can therefore conclude that Luis Suarez has roughly a one in 2,000 chance of biting any individual opposition player. For comparison, the following things are less likely than being bitten by Luis Suarez:
Bitten by a shark while swimming in the ocean (one in 3.7 million)
Struck by lightning once across an 80 year lifespan (one in 10,000)
Dying from a hornet, wasp or bee attack (one in 75,852)
Being killed by a firearm in the United States (one in 6,509)
Living on a coastline and experiencing a tsunami (one in 50,000)
Hit by an asteroid (one in 700,000)
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true dat bro! true dat!
Well, if anyone should complain about the cruel treatment by the other side, it’s the sharks who get killed by millions. :)
ahh .., true … the above mentioned stats may be skewed indeed, but i believe you must actually be on the field o’ play with Luis to qualify, as his on field and off field bites must be counted separately to be fair to both Mr. Suarez and to the no doubt handsomely paid FIFA officials who must keep track of these ongoing statistics … after all, cardable on field offences and felonies are separate stats … lol
p.s. to be clear and fair to the sharks mentioned in this piece, at NO time did I or the writer of the original piece mean to disparage or short sell sharks and their statistics … just wanted to make sure i got that in, I get enough hate mail from the right, no need to start any shit with the sharks union or their members …lol
What this math doesn’t mention is that for millions of people who play soccer, only three were bitten by Suarez.