1% Villa -Stats and football

[David_Nab]

Interesting article here ,if a little long about the emergence of using data in football.Explains what Commoli's job at Spurs and now Liverpool entails.How Wenger decides which player's to buy which is a little like real life ''Football/Championship manager '' !

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9471db52-97bb-11e0-9c37-00144feab49a.html#axzz1PiAQl6sX

[Mister E]

Yeah, read this earlier this morning. Good stuff.
You ought to ready Moneyball if you like this article - a great book even if Baseball means nothing to you (as for me).

[Summers]

Brilliant read. Wonder how much worth our club puts into stat work.

[Lucky Eddie]

Brilliant read. Wonder how much worth our club puts into stat work.

I wonder how many stats they looked at last week ?

[Summers]

Might have been the "Trophies Won" stat.