Taken from the bbc site;
"The Griffin Park club, who appointed Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuizen as their new head coach this month, have decided to apply statistical modelling to player recruitment.
They will now use a mathematical-based approach to recruitment, introduced by owner Matthew Benham, which has been referred to as a 'Moneyball' approach.
Moneyball is a system which emerged in baseball, in which the use of undervalued statistics allowed financially disadvantaged teams to compete with better-resourced rivals."
I've often wondered how this approach would work in football. Will be interesting to see how it works out. I'm not confident however, obviously different sorts of games, but the fitness, awareness and general ability of the whole squad is much more of a factor in football than in baseball in my opinion. Still, will be intriguing to see how it goes for them.
"The Griffin Park club, who appointed Dutchman Marinus Dijkhuizen as their new head coach this month, have decided to apply statistical modelling to player recruitment.
They will now use a mathematical-based approach to recruitment, introduced by owner Matthew Benham, which has been referred to as a 'Moneyball' approach.
Moneyball is a system which emerged in baseball, in which the use of undervalued statistics allowed financially disadvantaged teams to compete with better-resourced rivals."
I've often wondered how this approach would work in football. Will be interesting to see how it works out. I'm not confident however, obviously different sorts of games, but the fitness, awareness and general ability of the whole squad is much more of a factor in football than in baseball in my opinion. Still, will be intriguing to see how it goes for them.