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Originally Posted by Ethers
Statistical analysis has absolute nothing to do with the middle classes you absolute berk.
It comes from the US. They're absolutely stat obsessed over there, and in fairness it has some merit. Personally I don't feel it translates as well to a fluid, dynamic game like football, although there's clearly something to be taken from it, if you know what you're doing and are open to new ideas.
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There's some truth to this - although at the higher levels, it's the Germans who have used advanced analytics to best effect. One of the metrics they came up with is 'time between touches' and they found, not surprisingly, that good players take less time between their touches.
Sounds obvious, but it means they can play out of pressure more easily.
There are some incredible analytic tools available these days, and they are useful for coaches. But I agree with Trippers that they give 'stats bores' a new arsenal of shite to pepper their blogs and articles with. No stat in isolation is very useful, so droning on about 'shots per game', for example, while ignoring the correlating efficiency of those shots is misleading and pointless.
Not sure what any of it has to do with the middle classes.