Waiting For Moneyball - Soccerex Connected February 2021

It has been several years since we were promised that the avalanche of data now available in our sport would produce our very own Moneyball style disruption, where the smaller clubs use data to buy smart and beat the big guys, so why hasn’t it happened? Is football not as suited to dissection by data? Is the wrong data being used? Or has it happened first at the top of the game to maintain the existing order? Featuring: Oliver Gage - Canadian Premier League Koen Veenstra - AZ Alkmaar Mat Pearson - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Mike Jacobs - Nashville SC Oliver Seitz - Johan Cruyff Institute