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Offline David_Nab

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1% Villa -Stats and football
« on: June 19, 2011, 12:00:24 PM »
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


Offline Mister E

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Re: 1% Villa -Stats and football
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2011, 12:27:22 PM »
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).

Offline Summers

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Re: 1% Villa -Stats and football
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2011, 01:31:53 PM »
Brilliant read. Wonder how much worth our club puts into stat work.

Offline Lucky Eddie

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Re: 1% Villa -Stats and football
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2011, 03:22:22 PM »
Brilliant read. Wonder how much worth our club puts into stat work.

I wonder how many stats they looked at last week ?

Offline Summers

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Re: 1% Villa -Stats and football
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2011, 04:22:12 PM »
Might have been the "Trophies Won" stat.

 


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