Hoping this will bring an end to data-driven football and we can concentrate on just getting the ball in the other team’s net. Not sure why people have a problem with this.
Edit - but I found this link on the Rochdale fans' forum, and it appears that Sean McHugh, who was Southall's chief finance officer at CAFC, no longer has a certificate to practise as a chartered accountant. https://find.icaew.com/members/sutton/shaun-mchugh/Z1kvl0Q
Taking Farnell out of the equation, they kind of have a point. Obviously anyone can collect data on a match, player etc., but if you're then flogging that data maybe the players deserve a cut too? Just like image rights and that sort of thing. I really don't know how it works though or how legitimate this action is.
Taking Farnell out of the equation, they kind of have a point. Obviously anyone can collect data on a match, player etc., but if you're then flogging that data maybe the players deserve a cut too? Just like image rights and that sort of thing. I really don't know how it works though or how legitimate this action is.
But where does it stop?
Do you have to pay a player a royalty for noting down on the back of your programmes who started and who was sub?
Yeah, i totally get the last two posts. But the difference here is that someone is gathering data not just for fun (charltonlife stats) but to sell on. I guess the question is who owns the data. The players, the clubs, the efl, the fa or maybe its just out there and can't be owned by anyone? There is no real answer, so this will probably go nowhere!
Doesn’t the data statistics belong to those who take the trouble to collect and collate, not the footballers? If I were paid to stand at the Tigers Head traffic lights and tell Nissan how many Toyotas drove past within an hour, I wouldn’t be liable to reward the Toyota drivers for driving past.
Edit - but I found this link on the Rochdale fans' forum, and it appears that Sean McHugh, who was Southall's chief finance officer at CAFC, no longer has a certificate to practise as a chartered accountant. https://find.icaew.com/members/sutton/shaun-mchugh/Z1kvl0Q
I wonder what that's all about?
A practising certificate is needed to carry out audit work or offer accounting services to the general public, but if you're a chartered accountant working outside of practice then you don't need one. Not having one doesn't mean you're not a chartered accountant, and certainly not that you've broken the rules. Nothing to see here, sadly.
Hoping this will bring an end to data-driven football and we can concentrate on just getting the ball in the other team’s net. Not sure why people have a problem with this.
This is such bovine nonsense. How do you think Brentford have turned themselves into a viable Premiership team?
Ignoring the footballing aspect, this is going to be a really interesting test of GDPR interpretation. I would argue that most of the data, such as height, which Russel Slade points to as an example of Personal Data is publicly available on sites such as Wikipedia and therefore using that data could be considered legitimate use.
Charlton has the data of our players publicly available on our site:
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Edit - but I found this link on the Rochdale fans' forum, and it appears that Sean McHugh, who was Southall's chief finance officer at CAFC, no longer has a certificate to practise as a chartered accountant.
https://find.icaew.com/members/sutton/shaun-mchugh/Z1kvl0Q
I wonder what that's all about?
I think Slade's just upset that his 90's management style has been left behind.
Unashamedly cynical...
Do you have to pay a player a royalty for noting down on the back of your programmes who started and who was sub?
How about football journalists?
If I were paid to stand at the Tigers Head traffic lights and tell Nissan how many Toyotas drove past within an hour, I wouldn’t be liable to reward the Toyota drivers for driving past.
Nothing to see here, sadly.
Charlton has the data of our players publicly available on our site:
https://www.cafc.co.uk/team/player/5950fc82e1e06/profile
I'm not sure that data scraping companies are doing much wrong here to be honest, even though I would question the ethics of selling such data.