A few moments later, he looked back at his fiancee and nodded somberly as relatives of the victims sobbed loudly. That was the principle of an article presented at last year’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, an annual gathering of sports science and analytics experts. On the pitch, meanwhile, L’Affaire Howard was little more than afterthought. In 1966, 20-year-old Brazilian-born Eli Durante scored six goals for Ecuadorian club Emelec in an LA tournament in 1966.