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Liverpool have been doing this for years without Deepmind’s help (it’s been more than five years since Michael Edwards was decried as a laptop guru who betrayed
by thom 5y ago
Liverpool have been doing this for years without Deepmind’s help (it’s been more than five years since Michael Edwards was decried as a laptop guru who betrayed Brendan Rogers, for example). The analytics team at City Football Group has only really been built over the last year (but are very good). I don’t know that any of their dabbling before that was at this level.
Your point about applicability is totally right though, see Arsenal with StatDNA and the arguably weak impact of Barcelona’s Innovation Hub. I’d argue that Leicester’s use of (at the time) very rudimentary stats, nevertheless well integrated into their process, was a big part of their sudden success.
- PaulRobinson 5y agoI knew - and still know - the data guys from CFG who were there in 2016-ish. It's no doubt undergone a lot of changes, but it's definitely not really been built over the last year.
- thom 5y agoI know Brian Prestidge has been there a while and obviously has stats pedigree going back before even most of the data providers. But I don’t believe he’s been doing most of what Deepmind are talking about here (or which Will Spearman has been working on at Liverpool), which (as I understood it) is why they’re hired people like Laurie Shaw etc over the last year. Happy to be corrected, they all seem like great guys.
- hogFeast 5y agoThe Andy Carrol purchase? Liverpool's process clearly developed over time.