There's still lots of great football stats work being done out in the open, at http://statsbomb.com/ http://statsbomb.com/ for example. One of the founders of S

There's still lots of great football stats work being done out in the open, at http://statsbomb.com/ http://statsbomb.com/ for example. One of the founders of StatsBomb, Ted Knutson, went on to be hired by Matthew Benham to do player analytics for his two clubs. There hasn't yet been the sudden land grab that there was in ice hockey where all the best analytics bloggers got hired and silenced pretty much overnight, but clubs are getting far better at this stuff. Between Opta's human-based on-the-ball event tracking, and TRACAB's computer vision player tracking solutions that they provide to the Premier League, there's a bunch of interesting computer science and business going on around this stuff.