Welcome to another episode of Arsecast: The Arsenal Podcast.
In this episode, I talk to Rory Smith about his new book ‘Expected Goals’, which tracks the growth of data in football and how it has influenced the game as we know it today. We talked about surprising early adopters, how players were able to skew early iterations of data, how the use of stats is often at odds with the chaos of the game, poor communication, how things may evolve in the future and much more. including how StatDNA put Arsenal ahead of the curve in the past, but never provided the kind of competitive advantage it could have.
The book is fascinating to statistics advocates and statistics skeptics alike, and you can order it now at your local independent bookstore.
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