Episode 697 - Expected Goals
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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Is Vendia on Board With Stats?
Arsenal spotted that data was coming. Vendia had been a really early advocate of it. He saw it, I think, as something that could help rather than a lifestyle choice to be kind of bought into completely. And they end up using that DNA, buying that DNA, doing some really advanced stuff in terms of the metrics they were working with. They were way ahead of the field, apart from maybe one or two teams, by 2014 say they'd have been the world leaders in analytics. But there is a different version of that story that if Arsenal don't buy stat DNA or don't start working with them in 2011 and then buy them in 2012, maybe that whole demise happens an awful
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