Soccer’s Analytics Frontier

Omar Chaudhuri - Chief Intelligence Officer, Twenty First Group
Sarah Rudd - Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, src | ftbl
Mladen Sormaz - Director of Football Analytics, 777 Partners Football Group
John Muller (moderator) - Senior Writer, The Athletic

 

Soccer is both perhaps the most "unsolvable" major sport and earlier in the analytics adoption curve at the club level, making it an extremely exciting time for the global leaders pushing the boundaries of soccer analytics. The beautiful game's analytics research grows more fascinating by the year, with concepts like expected possession value models, pitch control, talent development, set piece optimization, and more gaining more traction. Meanwhile, clubs have become massive businesses, spending hundreds of millions of pounds on individual players while still unsure of how to integrate even basic analytical insights into their decision-making processes. This panel gathers the sport's brightest minds from the world's leading clubs, analytics consultancies, data providers, and researchers to truly dig into soccer's analytics frontier.