Expected Goals: The story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever

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The metric gives unparalleled insight into which teams and players are performing at the highest level. But if Moneyball is about using data to find what's undervalued in a market, this book is more about figuring out what that data even is and then convincing people to use it. Midtjylland - and Brentford - run on data; everything is checked and assessed and verified according to the data: the players they sign, the way they play, the decisions they make. The main protagonists are Chris Anderson and David Sally - it felt like half the book was teeing them up as the Moneyball pioneers of football and the plot would come together in a satisfying climax. Because we care about the lovely game, we want to share our thoughts about the books we read about our favorite topic: football.

But Liverpool’s Champions League and Premier League glory under Jurgen Klopp was helped by the cutting edge approach deployed by their ‘transfer committee’, which pitched for Roberto Firmino’s arrival in 2015.After seven seasons at Anfield, the Brazilian is set to depart for free in the summer, though his overall worth to the club in that time has been extremely good value for money. Whether you belong to a football club, are a Premier League fan, or simply just interested in learning more about the football world, our list of the best football audiobooks captures what draws so many people to makes ‘the beautiful game’. He also offers helpful information on important things to bear in mind, including xG’s assertion that a team who creates a few big chances are more likely to win a soccer match than a team who create numerous small ones, even though their xG may be lower than their opponents. Starts off strong with insights into the first teams that started to introduce data and the theories etc they were applying. The second is raised by Smith himself, which is that he doesn't have any details as to what effect the analysts had on their teams - we are left to conclude that Liverpool's success was helped by data, and it seems plausible, but he couldn't demonstrate it.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Clubs did things because that is what they had always done, and even owners new to the game seemed to allow themselves to be shaped by that herd mentality.Even as someone who follows data analytics in soccer/football, I learned a lot about this history of how the analytics got there in the first place.