The film Moneyball, released in 2011 and based on a true story, introduced the world of analytics to sports. Now big data analytics has arrived in the English Premier league. However, football is a much more dynamic game than baseball and thus analytics is a lot more difficult. The correspondents from The Economist discuss how big data can be applied and is already applied in football. In football the data is logged manually by analysts who pay close attention what happens during the game and this data is then automatically enriched with X,Y coordinates by the cameras that are located on top of the stadium. They discuss among others the tool Ayasdi that is used to for example visualize the goals per minute per player.
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