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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of Soccermatics? (2017) by r2d2-c3po on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:19AM (#17618129)
Do you have any recommendations for how a hobbyist can get more into the field? Someone who has a technical background, but works in a different field unrelated to sports at all. Any reading material to get familiar with some of the stats and metrics that are used in the industry?
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Re:The unreasonable effectiveness of Soccermatics? (2017) by dpleuler on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:49AM (#17618391)
There isn't a ton of great public resources out there. For the most part, anyone who's writing smart analysis in the public space gets hired away to a club. It's exactly what happened in other sports.

But, I would read "The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong" and read the backlogs of the StatsBomb blog. That will get you up to speed pretty quickly.

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