Is there a normal number of goals scored in a season for a striker? To answer this, one may be tempted to just take the mean of the goals scored of every player in a season. If we do this for last season, the mean is 1.83. Of course, this is misleading. There isn't really such thing as a "normal" number of goals scored in a season. The reason for this is that goals scored does not have a standard distribution, the bell curve we are used to. For example, if you looked at the distribution of heights in a population, you would see a nice bell curve. Most people are right around the average height, and as you go towards the extremes either way (really short or really tall) you find fewer and fewer people. Therefore, the mean of heights in the population is instructive because it gives us the "normal" or "typical" height. The problem is, goals scored in a season does not follow a standard distribution. Instead, most players score no goals at all. The next most common number of goals scored last season? Just one goal, of course. This distribution continues, and it follows a power law distribution.