Expected goals : the story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever / Rory Smith.

Expected goals : the story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever /

"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 m...

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Main Author: Smith, Rory (Football journalist) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Mudlark, HarperCollins Publishers, 2023.
Subjects:
Soccer.
Soccer > Forecasting.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : velvet revolution
  • The switch to digital
  • Trojan Horse
  • Tomorrow's world
  • Proof point
  • Arsenal try to walk it in
  • How (not) to buy a football club
  • Position of maximum opportunity
  • Alien
  • Merseyball
  • Epilogue : the rise of the outsiders.

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