Michael Cox: “One veteran of the data industry jokes that football analytics, while a multi-million-pound industry that employs hundreds of people, is essentially about inventing increasingly sophisticated ways to tell everyone to shoot from close to the goal, rather than far away from it.”

6 comments

1. I would like to piggy back on this great information by adding it really helps when the shots are on goal. Kicking it 40 rows up in the seats or 20 yards wide is not a good tactic.

2. Why people hate modern football. Make 5000 passes then tap it in a few feet from the goal. Limit risk taking and care for possession, it sucks.

3. 😂😂😂

4. Sometimes just the basics are enough 

5. Cox into his second decade as the best football writer

6. Scary how obvious that is lol

   My seven year old nephew started playing for his local team this year – I bet he knows that!