Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

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This fell somewhere between Soccernomics and one of Michael Calvin's books, as Biermann explored the metrics that are now being used to analyse football, but also gained access to people at the vanguard of using them. Readers interested in how data analytics is transforming traditional sports and entertainment sectors. It highlighted the depth and complexity of statistics that often go unnoticed by many football fans.

Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

The term ‘availability heuristic’ describes our mind’s flawed presumption that things that are memorised are also important. Biermann’s book is very much the precursor to Rory Smith’s Expected Goals, but where the latter explores the chronological story of data, Biermann travels around looking at the various methods and uses being applied by clubs and includes a bit more about Midtjylland, Brighton and Brentford. Biermann also affords us to views charts and tables to compare different metrics for players across the big leagues in Europe and there is a bigger focus on his native Germany. This was a lovely read. The author provides a nice and concise overview of the development of new metrics to better understand football. The author brings with him a deep love of the game, a curiosity and drive to understand and explain and a human touch allowing him to really flesh out the many interesting figures he meets. 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.’ Armed with OptaJoe archives and tonnes of data, he explains why Liverpool have had a lengthy trophy drought and reveals whether Messi is the greatest footballer of all time.

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Samuel Waihenya is 27 years of age and has been watching, discussing, as well as playing soccer for well over 10 years. Though quantitative analysis in football is in its infancy relative to American sports, its development will help inform judgements about the world's most popular sport. Daniel Memmert and Dominik Raabe explore how positional data on players can be collected, modelled and analysed and they challenge some of the sports longest held assumptions by way of cutting-edge methodology.

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Sporting directors and scouts face the challenge of gauging player ability across different leagues. Yet despite its ever-growing importance in football, the majority of casual fans still don’t fully understand what the expected goals term is, or when to apply it correctly when analysing a player’s performance. 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! Each chapter focuses on a specific season and chapter endings include a statistical overview of each season which is a nice touch Reinforced the belief that while data is transformative, the soul of football remains human, making every game an unpredictable delight.Niemeyer notes that coaches such as Guardiola or Paris St-Germain Head Coach Thomas Tuchel have also made the game more tactical, with increased focus on positions, passing lanes and pressing patterns. The question for data and analytics, then, is to be better represent these fields in numbers that provide answers and insight while promoting greater understanding. 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. The chapter on player recruitment was fairly relevant to the direction that data analysis is taking at present to support football clubs

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In 2018, football consulting firm 21st Club found that players from Ligue 1 were on average 17 per cent more expensive than players of a similar level from other leagues, like Switzerland, for example. In other words, there were bargains to be had.

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. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial.