Analyse what has been successful for promoted sides in recent years then use these attributes to select similar players ... I know we are in completion with many clubs but we much achieve Championship football and then maintain it! Simple.
During his years as a sportswriter, Jones began to notice the way analytics were being misapplied, often irrationally, to the detriment of clubs throughout the global multi billion dollar industry of professional sport. Nowhere, he says, was this more obvious than in the world of European football.
”Analytics are great for baseball because it’s a very confined system. There’s not much movement, it’s pretty mathematical and measureable. But with football, how do you quantify the value of a defensive midfielder? A lot of it can’t be quantified, there’s too much movement, too much luck is involved. Similarly, ‘possession’ has become a huge determining statistic in football, but in real terms it doesn’t mean that much. Statistically you can easily dominate a game of football, but still lose because you let in one goal.”
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”Analytics are great for baseball because it’s a very confined system. There’s not much movement, it’s pretty mathematical and measureable. But with football, how do you quantify the value of a defensive midfielder? A lot of it can’t be quantified, there’s too much movement, too much luck is involved. Similarly, ‘possession’ has become a huge determining statistic in football, but in real terms it doesn’t mean that much. Statistically you can easily dominate a game of football, but still lose because you let in one goal.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/10/can-we-take-the-hatred-out-of-social-media-
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/chris-jones/the-eye-test/9781538730676/