The first person in the UK to start looking at this seriously and doing something with the numbers was that utter dinosaur and last bastion of "pwoppa Inglisch football" Sam Allardyce when he took over at Bolton in '99
Quote from: pbavfckuwait on April 24, 2016, 11:20:36 AMCorrect Monty but they also need to do some homework on the characters of the players they are looking to purchase, stats are fine but crosschecks need also to be carried out.This is true - but then we haven't had problems with the characters of any of the foreign players bought last season. It's the British based ones who've been involved in all the problems.
Correct Monty but they also need to do some homework on the characters of the players they are looking to purchase, stats are fine but crosschecks need also to be carried out.
Quote from: aj2k77 on April 24, 2016, 11:09:14 AMQuote from: Monty on April 24, 2016, 11:02:22 AMThe Benteke replacement was hardly Moneyball. He was replaced, by Sherwood, with Rudy Gestede. Perhaps we could have used more stats than 'he's scored some goals, bruv'.Who scores headed goals? Looks at stats, Gestede, buy him.Moneyball for morons, maybe.The point is that everybody who's any good - EVERYBODY - uses 'stats' in the modern game now for scouting. Everybody. The way you dismiss them as some crazy wacky thing dreamed up in a lab by some fringe maniac scientist is so divorced from the real-world reality of the sport it's frightening. It's like you and The Edge have been cryogenically frozen since 1945.
Quote from: Monty on April 24, 2016, 11:02:22 AMThe Benteke replacement was hardly Moneyball. He was replaced, by Sherwood, with Rudy Gestede. Perhaps we could have used more stats than 'he's scored some goals, bruv'.Who scores headed goals? Looks at stats, Gestede, buy him.
The Benteke replacement was hardly Moneyball. He was replaced, by Sherwood, with Rudy Gestede. Perhaps we could have used more stats than 'he's scored some goals, bruv'.
I wouldn't trust Sherwood to build a lego wall.
Quote from: edgysatsuma89 on April 25, 2016, 05:36:22 PMI wouldn't trust Sherwood to build a lego wall.we'll never know cos he wasn't given the chance
Quote from: The Edge on April 25, 2016, 05:48:18 PMQuote from: edgysatsuma89 on April 25, 2016, 05:36:22 PMI wouldn't trust Sherwood to build a lego wall.we'll never know cos he wasn't given the chanceHe'll get his chance to build his British or at least experienced, 110% in training, running around like headless chickens pwoper laaaaads team at some point and you'll find out the jingoistic prick hasn't got a clue.#Bantz
Quote from: The Edge on April 25, 2016, 05:48:18 PMQuote from: edgysatsuma89 on April 25, 2016, 05:36:22 PMI wouldn't trust Sherwood to build a lego wall.we'll never know cos he wasn't given the chanceHe was given half a chance. The ones he bought have been as bad, if not worse then the ones he supposedly had nothing to do with. Even though he bigged them up massively and was taking credit for them in all the media when bought. If Richards, Lescott and Gestade were the ones performing well each game, or if he had Grealish playing well or decided to actually get Gabby fit or decided to quell any dressing room troubles rather then fanning them, then your trust of him would have been justified. There is also an argument that if Garde had been given the same chances Sherwood had to get the players in he wanted in January and maybe replace some of the dross we have left, then we might have strung results together and been safe. We were started to actually play like a team that cares again when we the board decided not to even try anything in the Jan transfer windows and the troublemakers decided they were safe to get another manager sacked who could do nothing about it but play them.