Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

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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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The term ‘availability heuristic’ describes our mind’s flawed presumption that things that are memorised are also important. Biermann goes on to explain that the VCR has influenced football more than any other technology over the past 25 years. ‘Coaches found it much easier to learn from their best colleagues and analyse their own games,’ he observes. ‘They could show players what they are doing right or wrong rather than simply talking about it. Visual learning engendered great improvement across the board. What’s more, no one ever went into matches blindly any more, not knowing what to expect. Players could literally see what type of opponent and patterns of play they were up against in advance.’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. 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. 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. Football fanatics and casual fans alike will often have heard of the expected goals metric that’s often used to analyse performance. There is a flaw in their analysis when comparing football to other sports as they failed to account for the fact that in football there are 3 outcomes – win, draw and lose – whereas in American sports it’s only wins or losses.

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Some of the topics covered in this title include the emergence of positional data analysis and the benefits of a data driven approach to decision making in football. 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. 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.Readers interested in how data analytics is transforming traditional sports and entertainment sectors. 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. At first, the scraps of overseas footage that Hitzfeld and his assistant, Michael Henke, found on German television did not really cut the mustard, while scouting trips that covered just one or two matches did not provide meaningful insights that could be shared with other members of staff. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU.