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Yes, I do think the interaction in football makes it harder to rely purely on stats - although I agree they should play a part. Cricket is probably a better game for this sort of experiment as it focuses on lots of individual duals. Warburton will be able to walk into a job in the summer - he...

Not necessarily. I think the models that the article talks about are more sophisticated than "X scored goals in the past so will do again". Moneyball is specifically about how that sort of approach fails I don't know enough about the models to know whether emotional factors play a part but I...

Surprised this hasn't been posted already http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/feb/22/brentford-mathematical-modelling-denmark I think it's a fascinating approach and show what happens when you get a mathematical whizz-kid with a love of gambling as a chairman. I wonder which other...