chdove

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by chdove 2mo ago
Arsenal FC | Research Engineer | London Colney, UK | HYBRID | FULL-TIME Yes, the 25/26 Premier League Champions! You'd be embedded with the Men's First Team analysis dept building the internal tooling analysts and coaches use
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by chdove 2y ago
It's not, although some football knowledge and interest in the game certainly helps.
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by chdove 2y ago
I had to re-read this a couple times, ...but yes!
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by chdove 2y ago
TL;DR - Our department was originally an independent football analytics startup https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/17/arsenal-pla...
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by chdove 2y ago
We've used various methods over the years, but we'll check this one out. Thanks!
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by chdove 2y ago
This works really well until you're dealing with potato quality video, weird fonts, and shirts plastered with ads, or even pretty good quality video and white shirts with white lettering ( https://www.arsenal.com/news&#x
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by chdove 2y ago
We do plan to! We're getting a lot of questions about that. They can reach out via LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dove-43b7a85/ ).
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by chdove 2y ago
Lots of great questions! > Does your team and department taking of analytics primarily on the footballing side? Like player performance? Yes, we work primarily on the footballing side and across the spectrum in that space: Player/te
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by chdove 2y ago
Hmm, well the super secret stuff we’re working on comes directly to mind, but if I set that aside, boring entity resolution is actually a big pain point. Regardless of their sophistication, 3rd party data products in football tend to rely o
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by chdove 2y ago
There definitely is hope for AI aiding with the less subjective elements of refereeing, such as offside, ball out of bounds, keeper moving off of line before a penalty is taken, etc. It has already had a big impact for ball crossing the goa
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by chdove 2y ago
Whew didn’t expect this to get posted here but I’m not complaining! I’m Chris, Head of Analytics at Arsenal and hiring manager for this role ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dove-43b7a85 ) I’m happy to answer any ques
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by chdove 2y ago
Hiring manager here! Aside from 3rd party data, we contract with a nonprofit in Laos where operators collect event data for us (~2000 data points per match) across roughly a dozen leagues worldwide. We also extract player tracking data from
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by chdove 2y ago
Hiring manager here! While living off of porridge shouldn’t be necessary, I will say the porridge at the training ground is absolutely top tier.