Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

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Daniel Memmert and Dominik Raabe explore how positional data on players can be collected, modelled and analysed and they challenge some of the sports longest held assumptions by way of cutting-edge methodology. A lo largo del libro el autor se entrevista con varios de los protagonistas de esta revolución, llevándonos alternadamente por famosos estadios, canchas de clubs de segunda división y salas de conferencias de startups en Alemania, Inglaterra y los EEUU para presentarnos a una serie de iluminados personajes. Asi conocemos las historias de innovadores DTs y outsiders --entre académicos advenedizos, blogueros aficionados y exiliados de otros deportes más matematizados como el basket y la Fórmula 1-- dispuestos a acabar con los sesgos cognitivos que dominan las discusiones, y no pocas veces, decisiones futbolísticas. Biermann’s book is very much the precursor to Rory Smith’s Expected Goals, but where the latter explores the chronological story of data, Biermann travels around looking at the various methods and uses being applied by clubs and includes a bit more about Midtjylland, Brighton and Brentford. Biermann also affords us to views charts and tables to compare different metrics for players across the big leagues in Europe and there is a bigger focus on his native Germany. At first, I expected the book to be somewhat a copy of David Sumpter's Soccermatics , which I rated highly. It turned out to be rather interesting, with a very long chapter dedicated to a number of metrics we have tried, with various degree of success, to deconstruct the sport, chasing a dream of finding a surefire way to build a data-drive, Moneyball like success story.. All sports who use analytics successfully do so because the clubs see it as part of the management strategy.’

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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. Prior to the modern era of ubiquitous digital footage of thousands of games and the availability of cheap computing power coming up with better football statistics has not been possible. Charles Reep's simplistic counting of passes being the best known failed example. But today with annotations available for thousands of games a year being done more sophisticated analysis has become possible. The future of football will not simply belong to those with the best data, but those who draw the best conclusions from the information at their disposal." Many sporting directors or managers prefer to rely on their network of agents as far as signing new players is concerned. The first time we watch football, we probably see it as twenty people running frenzied after a ball. At some point, you may notice the nuances, the subtle tactics, the mazy runs and the different ways athletes control the ball.Es un libro que explica cómo el desarrollo del análisis de datos se ha convertido en una área que día a día genera nuevos conocimientos en el campo del fútbol. Chris Anderson – a former goalkeeper who is now a football statistics guru – and David Sally – a former baseball pitcher turned behavioural economist – debunk the commonly misplaced myths about the game in this great book called The Numbers Game. The muted response showed up one fundamental problem of data analytics in football: most coaches spend so much time working with their teams. Another really interesting trend (used by Midtjylland and Tuchel for example) is psychological profiling of players and how different players work together. So that your team needs a balanced amount of fighters, artists, engineers and social workers on the field (similar to Belbin). On the surface it’s this clear-cut David-and-Goliath story where a complete outsider gets some very resourceful people in trouble through quite a simple method,” says Borchert Holm. “It’s unbelievable how much Rui Pinto has revealed about the football business. But when I read about some of the other things that he had done, that’s when I thought: ‘This really adds another dimension.’ It becomes less clear who is the hero and who is the villain of the story.”

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Professional football gamblers become trailblazers for analytics, Chris Anderson takes over a club and Rasmus Ankersen changes Danish football. 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. Readers interested in how data analytics is transforming traditional sports and entertainment sectors.

The future of football will not simply belong to those with the best data, but those who draw the best conclusions from the information at their disposal. The question is no longer whether data gets consulted – but how good it is, how layered and to what extent it guides the recruitment process. Dortmund, like most of their Bundesliga opponents, are a sports club of which football is but one division. The solution would lie with the Borussia Dortmund women’s handball team. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? Biermann hits the nail on the head about halfway through the book. He writes that when analysing data "context is crucial, always". The same goes for sport.