It's 2021 and the age of IT. All businesses use data analysis to some extent af least so why would professional sport be different and take a Luddite attitude.Argylegames":3h1114zv said:jimsing":3h1114zv said:Potty,
Hallett has insisted that data analytics is used, and Lowe has agreed to use it, otherwise he would not have become manager, so it is here to stay, I'm afraid.
That confuses me as Lowe brought his data analyst with him from Bury. I think the Chairman said he wanted a manager who used analysis and found one.
It is big in the USA of course since it was 'invented' in Baseball.
Its not new to football anyway, the likes of Graham Taylor and Dave Bassett were employing data analysts 30-odd years ago to sit in the stand counting the number of long balls launched into the box that led to goal scoring opportunities.
It's obviously moved on a heck of a lot since then, particularly with regard to player recruitment. Sam Allardyce used it at Bolton as well many years ago, as he said it helped them compete with the so-called bigger teams who could afford to spend millions on players who didn't cut the mustard and just bought more.
As a Baseball fan, I'm not sure data analytics was actually 'invented' in Baseball, as portrayed in the film Moneyball. The way in which the Oakland Athletics - a small budget team - used it to great effect was to look at a set of statistics that were mostly overlooked by the other teams in MLB in order to find players with very specific attributes. They have been very successful over many years signing players discarded by other teams.