Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

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On the surface it’s this clear-cut David-and-Goliath story where a complete outsider gets some very resourceful people in trouble through quite a simple method,” says Borchert Holm. “It’s unbelievable how much Rui Pinto has revealed about the football business. But when I read about some of the other things that he had done, that’s when I thought: ‘This really adds another dimension.’ It becomes less clear who is the hero and who is the villain of the story.” Prior to the modern era of ubiquitous digital footage of thousands of games and the availability of cheap computing power coming up with better football statistics has not been possible. Charles Reep's simplistic counting of passes being the best known failed example. But today with annotations available for thousands of games a year being done more sophisticated analysis has become possible. The future of football will not simply belong to those with the best data, but those who draw the best conclusions from the information at their disposal. Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski provide excellent answers to some of the biggest questions that football fans want to know, such as why England frequently lose whilst the likes of Germany and Brazil win more often than not.

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A lo largo del libro el autor se entrevista con varios de los protagonistas de esta revolución, llevándonos alternadamente por famosos estadios, canchas de clubs de segunda división y salas de conferencias de startups en Alemania, Inglaterra y los EEUU para presentarnos a una serie de iluminados personajes. Asi conocemos las historias de innovadores DTs y outsiders --entre académicos advenedizos, blogueros aficionados y exiliados de otros deportes más matematizados como el basket y la Fórmula 1-- dispuestos a acabar con los sesgos cognitivos que dominan las discusiones, y no pocas veces, decisiones futbolísticas. Readers interested in how data analytics is transforming traditional sports and entertainment sectors. The film touches on the furore over the fee paid by Real Madrid for Gareth Bale. Photograph: Ángel Martínez/Real Madrid/Getty Images 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. Football fanatics and casual fans alike will often have heard of the expected goals metric that’s often used to analyse performance.But with data now widely available, clubs can create a shortlist of players who have statistics that fit a particular profile, all without having to leave the training centre. That means instant access to the world’s largest selection of audiobooks and podcasts on any Android or iOS enabled device. The future of football will pivot on those who can masterfully balance and interpret both these elements. It is fascinating though that if in 2010 when video analyses and big data really went widespread - the world of soccer statistics seemed to be the future. However today still the big leap into big data and statistics has not happened. There are a few teams making use of it (like FC Midtjylland in Denmark as one example.), but generally football looks at it with suspicion. The muted response showed up one fundamental problem of data analytics in football: most coaches spend so much time working with their teams.

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Outside the Box uncovers when the numbers started to become more important to various stakeholders within football, and it offers a thoroughly detailed explanation of what the numbers mean. Football is no longer a game of mere talent and strategy but has morphed into a sophisticated interplay of data analytics and human intuition. The biggest change in football and how it is understood and interpreted has come from the rise of video analyses. Firstly it has enabled brilliant coaches like Guardiola or Van Gaal or Tuchel or Klopp to study extensive videos on their oppositions and their own team performances to come up with new ways of succeeding. It has also enabled them to learn from other coaches and derive how successful their methods are. Sporting directors and scouts face the challenge of gauging player ability across different leagues.Using 21 st Club’s tool – which calculates the historical link between a player’s on pitch actions alongside overall team performance level and subsequently assigning an overall rating – a player who was earning 25% less than the average player on the client’s shortlist and who was better than all but one on the said shortlist, was identified.

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But it would be absurd, in this day and age, to look for players without the use of digital pre-sorting facilities. In my view, use of such data is an aid to judgement and not a replacement for it. And interestingly that's how Borussia Dortmund used it under Klopp.

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Biermann also explains that attempts to provide clues about the game’s inner machinations, such as those proffered by Trainor, ‘[have] become one of the key analysis trends in recent years, [which] more often than not derived from work done by obsessive members of the global data underground.’ The first time we watch football, we probably see it as twenty people running frenzied after a ball. At some point, you may notice the nuances, the subtle tactics, the mazy runs and the different ways athletes control the ball.