Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever

Name: Expected Goals: The Story of How Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever
Brand: Mudlark
SKU: 0008484074
Price: 374 INR
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ISBN: 9780008484071

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05 Sep, 2023

By Rory Smith (Author)

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years ...

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ISBN-10:

0008484074

ISBN-13:

9780008484071

Publisher

Mudlark

No.of Pages

304

Dimensions

7.84 X 5.24 X 0.76 inches

Description

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 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. Central to this cast is Chris Anderson, an academic with no experience in football, who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed. His aim: to infiltrate the strange, insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data.

Expected Goals charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world, from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich, began to see how data could help them unearth new players, define radical tactics and plot their path to glory.

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ISBN-10

: 0008484074

ISBN-13

: 9780008484071

Publisher

: Mudlark

Publication date

: 05 Sep, 2023

About the Author

Rory Smith is a journalist, broadcaster and author. In 2016, Smith became the chief soccer correspondent of The New York Times and is a former journalist forThe Times, Independent, and Daily Telegraph. Smith has been nominated for Writer of the Year by the Football Supporters' Federation four times, winning twice in 2015 and 2019 and highly commended by the Sports Journalists' Association in 2015.

@RorySmith