Expected goals : the story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever /
by Smith, Rory, (Football journalist).
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BookPublisher: London : Mudlark, 2023Description: 291 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780008484071 (pbk.) :; 0008484074 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 796.334 SMISubject(s): Soccer | Soccer -- Forecasting | Sport | Sport | Data analysis: general | Economics | Business strategy | Business innovation | Knowledge managementSummary: Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them. This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game.
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Originally published: 2022.
Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them. This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game.
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