As if the Premier League weren’t popular enough as a product on its own, millions of people also play free Fantasy Premier League (FPL) games on various platforms, including the league’s own. Since we’re offering resources for fantasy players on smarterscout.com, we thought it was time to get involved directly. So this season, for the first time, we have a team – and a special strategy to go with it. The squad Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to write a complete algorithm to optimize our team. When we do, we’ll make the results available to everyone on our site. But…
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What is smarterscout.com?
I’ve spent the past seven years working in soccer/football analytics, and one complaint that I often hear is that so much work is only visible behind closed doors. Another is that analytics hasn’t gone mainstream. I think these two things are connected. So for me, it’s time to bring analytics out into the open, and that’s why NYA has launched smarterscout.com, where basic membership (smarterscout Lite) is free. Right now smarterscout is in beta, and we’ll be adding plenty of features in the coming months. But we wanted to get an early version of the site online because, to be…
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Marcelo Bielsa, let me save your staff some time
Pretty much everyone in the soccer/football world has heard by now that Marcelo Bielsa sent staff to spy on the training sessions of all of Leeds United’s opponents, that he admitted as much in a press conference, and that he then unveiled a substantial amount of his opposition analysis on Derby County. He also revealed that as many as 20 other people work on opposition analysis at Leeds United, and they spent 360 hours analyzing old Derby matches. And this is where I think I can save them some time. In his own words, here are the key points that…
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