| Jordan Cousins anyone? on 15:17 - May 16 by rsonist |
Ooh nice.
A similar/wider question I could rephrase is what is/are the biggest blindspots in analytics currently, beyond personal "you never know about a player's home life" type stuff. It's been interesting watching the minor goldrush in the community collectively figuring out how to value keepers in recent years for instance (improving the saleability of The Product but also a tacit admission that it was lacking in that aspect before too).
One more: does analytics make football more or less accessible? Does he like the way analytics is presented in the media, etc? Thinking of the culture war between Those Icky New Young Brentford Fans (and perhaps the increased media attention Warbs took a swipe at on the pod) vs anti-analytics Jim Whites using it as proxy in their fear and loathing of wider disenfranchisement in the game at large.
Third:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/magazine/soccer-data-liverpool.html
Liverpool's director of research Ian Graham says here “I don’t like video. It biases you” and apparently relies solely on his custom formulae for analysis. Is he an absolute madlad? |
That is mad imo cos as someone who does a lot of data stuff for a living you've always got the "eye test" - for eg, I can tell you what spending £x on TV advertising should do for your business, but it doesn't account for your ad being shite
I like looking at football data but you need IRL context for it. Take passes completed % - Eze's were mad high given he was also playing speculative attacking balls, whereas late era Scowen's were super worrying given his role was often to recycle possession. On paper though they were only 7% points apart
Data is a tool, and like any tool you can just as easily use it to build something valuable and long living, as you can do yourself serious bodily harm with |  |
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