Football Hackers: The Science and Art of a Data Revolution

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Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski provide excellent answers to some of the biggest questions that football fans want to know, such as why England frequently lose whilst the likes of Germany and Brazil win more often than not.

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Data Analytics in Football contains data collected from the German Bundeliga and UEFA Champions League and is supplemented with interviews from some esteemed professionals within the industry such as Ralf Ragnick and Urs Siegenthaler.First I’d like to enlist those which I’ve read so anyone who hasn’t heard of them finds out about them.

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Then main takeaway for me was that most clubs are moving beyond the initial stage of just understanding what's happening on the pitch and now using data science to predict what will happen next. Data tells a story of the game - not the story, but often a new and better one than the one we have all become used to. The book meanders a bit through different subjects though, and it also feels like a snapshoot of the development at that point in time, more than a complete primer on football analytics. We have a preference for articles that show their work, especially if they include links to their source data. Kevin Muscat - You look up hacker in the dictionary and a certain Kevin Muscat is likely to feature high in the description box.With the help of video analysts this has now been cut significantly to only those moments that matter. But the later will once models […] become suitable for daily use, and when every action on the pitch will have a specific mathematical value.

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The author spends a lot of time in the beginning on xG and people who created mathematical models that could not be properly presented or explained. He was a traditional, uncompromising centre back, who was a rock at the heart of the defence for Liverpool for more than 15 years. This is most certainly a far cry from how things were in the sport back in the ‘70s, ‘80s or even the ‘90s. I can’t recommend this book enough to anyone interested in the use of data in modern football: five stars out of five. If you are a fan of Football and want to know more about where the game is heading this is the book to get.While it remains frank about the achievements of this field, it has given enough information about how analytics has and can continue to change this sport. 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. But it would be absurd, in this day and age, to look for players without the use of digital pre-sorting facilities.