Can someone explain to me why this question was closed?
Football penalty shootouts: Germany wins 71% of the time, England 17% only. Any reason?
It looks like a good question to me, and has a very thoughtful answer. I don't really understand gbianchi's comment.
Why was this closed?
I feel that it is a legitimate question, and the answer explains the data correctly. For someone like me, who knows very little about soccer, it is an interesting question and answer.
A downvote is certainly warranted if you don't find the question interesting or compelling. However, I don't see any grounds for closure.
The question merely presents data that was found in a chart on a website, and asks for an explanation. There is nothing off-topic about that, and, as it sounds like there is only one legitimate explanation for the data (the sample size is too small for the statistics to be meaningful), the question is not too broad.
For one thing, as the answer points out, its an abysmally small sample, there isn't really anything we can learn from the data.
More importantly though, there really isn't a way to tease out a narrative from comparing two country's PK experiences. The best we can do is say
Neither of those things is particularly interesting, and more importantly, neither of those support the preconceived desired narrative of the question itself.
Essentially, the question is "map a story onto this random statistical anomaly" and I (personally at least), don't find that to be a particularly compelling style of question.
