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Insightful analysis of football's data revolution.
If you're a football fan interested in how cutting-edge data analysis is transforming the sport, "Expected Goals" by Rory Smith is a must-read. Smith gives readers a front-row seat to the strategies that have reshaped world-class teams like Barcelona and Manchester City, immersing you in soccer's modern evolution. It's an eye-opener on how stats and analytics are as integral to the game as the players on the field.
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ISBN: 9780008484040
Authors:
Rory Smith
Publisher: Mudlark
Date of Publication: 2022-09-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 795 readers)
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Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it’s not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it’s the people behind them. This is the story of modern football’s great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game. Central to this cast is Chris Anderson, an academic with no experience in football, who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed. His aim: to infiltrate the strange, insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data. Expected Goals charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world, from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich, began to see how data could help them unearth new players, define radical tactics and plot their path to glory.
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Insightful analysis of football's data revolution.
If you're a football fan interested in how cutting-edge data analysis is transforming the sport, "Expected Goals" by Rory Smith is a must-read. Smith gives readers a front-row seat to the strategies that have reshaped world-class teams like Barcelona and Manchester City, immersing you in soccer's modern evolution. It's an eye-opener on how stats and analytics are as integral to the game as the players on the field.
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