Alex Stewart

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screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015: JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th [Sun rises] [Sun keeps getting bigger] BUCK: yes [World engulfed by flames] BUCK: oh god yes

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

Analytics FC Collaboration with AIK Fotboll Making Real Impact - Analytics FC AIK's Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on how a partnership with Analytics FC is having a positive impact

⚽ 🇸🇪 Analytics FC's work with AIK Fotboll is making a real impact

AIK’s Head of Football Strategy, Jeremy Steele, has given an update on our partnership with AIK’s is having a tangible impact on scouting, recruitment, and performance reviews. Find out more below:

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🦇 Amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill are likely to be discussed @houseoflords.parliament.uk today. The Bill ignores and disregards the need for evidence and will not benefit the economy, our natural heritage or society. Updated briefing here:

Imagine if there was a company with a strong track record in working directly with players

I swear if one more commentator says Agyemang "causes chaos" I will reach into my TV and throttle them

Sarina is a brilliant coach and I love what she has done in general, but at some point we have to start giving meaningful chances to new players especially in midfield.

Yeh it's a dynamic system that is hard to work against, really nice coaching

This is usually true with possession ha

English football’s focus on possession over transition causes so many problems when the international side comes up against quick strong sides with a core of NWSL attacking players.

Zambo is such a gem and remains for me a good example of analytics identifying good players even if the first move doesn’t work (Fulham)

If this team didn’t have Russo idk

Good coach to go with the style and player profile too

Market Analysis: Norway’s Youthful Toppserien - Analytics FC Neel Shelat looks at Norway's Toppserien, a market with real importance for elite-level recruitment and the promise of its youth development

🌍 Market Analysis – Norway’s Toppserien

@shelatneel.bsky.social looks at one of Europe’s more youthful elite women’s leagues and showcases some of the exceptional talent to be found there

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I’m extremely over getting AI-generated messages on LinkedIn asking about the football industry. A) AI can be spotted a mile away in this kind of missive; don’t do it! B) how can you be expected to be taken seriously if you outsource saying hello to a fucken robot

What does this even mean my god

🧵 Thread: I recently explored a few ideas to analyze a team's press in more detail 👇

1️⃣ Pressing triggers

▫️By focusing on the opponent's pass before a 1st pressing action in a sequence, it's possible to separate different triggers

👇 The graphic shows an example, with the 8 triggers that I defined

I think a lot about how most big-city newspapers used to have a a couple of movie critics, a theater critic, a few book critics, an architecture critic, a music critic or two, an in-house cartoonist, at least two or three foreign correspondents, a fashion writer, and a whole staff of photographers

Sure, you have an opinion, I have an opinion 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think it’s indicative of the general issues which are that the design is bad. It’s a small example yes but there’s such an obvious fix that not to have that fix is maybe why all the other problems are there too

Sure but why not label? Dots and remembering seems bizarre

I have no idea sadly

I really wanted it to be good. I really wanted to be able to say yes, this is a cracking iteration and all the time etc was worth it and now I can play WSL and that’s cool etc etc. But so far, it’s just really not

The staff pop out is another example. I have a senior team, a B team, and a U19s. But nowhere does it say which I’m looking at and if I then go into coaching team to recruit, it doesn’t say which one I’m looking at. The third image is (probably) B team based on guesses but just display it somewhere!

Now multiply this irritation by every box on every screen

It’s such a small thing - choose the zone and it restricts to that drop down, or choose from the drop downs alone and that’s it - and overall it should be a good add but you just spend two mins going wtf is all this

So here’s a good example of bad decisions. You select one but you have to click the circle left. Choosing a role on the drop down alone does nothing, but it’s a straight duplication of the choice. Plus you can also choose multiples on the drop downs (one for each area) but only one counts

Tell me about it.

It’s good though, misunderstanding aside, because Saints are third in the xGD table so it’s worth highlighting the underlying numbers