Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

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Sobre tecnologías de información, análisis de probabilidad y la 'revolución de la data', como la llama Biermann en este libro, tampoco estaba muy enterado. Quizá fue esa doble ignorancia la que me atrajo a la posibilidad de introducirme en ambos temas a través de una crónica de las profundas transformaciones que ocurren en el paisaje deportivo en los últimos quinquenios. Este libro es un relato de un experimentado periodista sobre el advenimiento y proliferación de variopintas métricas y modelos estadísticos para hacer otorgar sentido a sets de datos y lograr predecir resultados con un poquito más de certeza frente a la "eterna predisposición del fútbol a los eventos aleatorios" (p. 187) Our goal is to showcase and discuss interesting links regarding the use of data and analytics in sports. Think of us like /r/sabermetrics, but not specific to baseball. He’s all about finding a way into the box and creating superiority, with a position game. He would think for hours on end, sometimes throughout the night, discussing it with the analysis team. He would watch games himself as well, to come up with ideas for a strategy. Perhaps some work was done twice that way but it was necessary.’ The author of this fantastic title – Christoph Biermann – has spoken with numerous scientists, managers, scouts and psychologists involved in the game to provide a balanced account of the growing influence of data within football. While the bigger clubs increase their myriad advantages through the funding of cutting-edge research, the smaller ones are still at the stage where they’re trying to understand what all these numbers are useful for. The data revolution in football is gaining momentum – but at the same time it’s not.

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Secondly they now have material to show the players exactly what they want them to see and explain their methods. Gone are the days when "tactical training" required tedious sit-throughs of whole games. With the help of video analysts this has now been cut significantly to only those moments that matter. Football is like chess, but with dice." - Peter Krawietz, highlighting the game's unpredictability.How would that then work in refereeing - how do you really make a difference between a good referee and a great one as subjective feelings are always misleading. All sports who use analytics successfully do so because the clubs see it as part of the management strategy.’ The Tifo Football Podcast — This has great interviews and discussions about tactics. It is mostly about the English Premier League, but do go over other areas of interest. Then: ‘Instead of manually searching through videos for hours on end, analysts will leave computers to do that menial work and focus on more productive tasks instead.’

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Clubs will want their athletes in tip top shape for matches and they can only be sure that their athletes are in the best physical condition by using the data at their disposal to keep an eye on their performance in training.Really interesting idea is that of Ghosting - a game is played and based on the data feed into the computer previously - the computer offers an ideal route for the player to take in that situation. So for a defender to either close down the opposition or stay put on the 16m area line. And you can see live the difference between the two. Same can be applied to refereeing if we know from which positions referees make the best calls - so with ghosting we could teach referees where to position.

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I wholeheartedly agree with Biermann. Data tells a story. But it is not THE story. It's another tool in the belt. Chris Anderson – a former goalkeeper who is now a football statistics guru – and David Sally – a former baseball pitcher turned behavioural economist – debunk the commonly misplaced myths about the game in this great book called The Numbers Game.It appears there is no 'one' model for assessing players but rather multiple ways of interrogating the data according to the philosophy of the analysts and coaches. Overall, a good book if you are interested in football analytics. The book meanders a bit through different subjects though, and it also feels like a snapshoot of the development at that point in time, more than a complete primer on football analytics. But that is mostly because there is a lot of development in this space. Samuel Waihenya is 27 years of age and has been watching, discussing, as well as playing soccer for well over 10 years. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. Ultimately, from this blog post you should have been able to deduce the fact that data driven insights are playing an increasingly important role in several facets of the sport today.

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The question is no longer whether data gets consulted – but how good it is, how layered and to what extent it guides the recruitment process. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side.The European Game: The Secrets of European Football Success The Secrets of European Football Success by Dan Fieldsend. Not a soccer analytics focused book, but does include many sections on the topic as well as the advent of exercise science methods in soccer. Gives a really nice tour of European soccer leagues and some of the rivalries. Hopefully a new edition will come out eventually. Hi everyone! Hope you are doing fine. I’m here because I’m on a quest of trying to read and learn as much from Soccer Analytics as I can (it is my dream job) and have decided to start by reading some books. First I’d like to enlist those which I’ve read so anyone who hasn’t heard of them finds out about them. And then, I’d really appreciate if you guys could recommend me some books in the comments to keep learning and enjoying this. Thanks in advance!