Johan Lange & Tottenham’s Data Strategy — Can Spurs Still Find A Transfer Edge? (Moneyball, Brighton’s Model, xG & A Better-Balanced Squad)

Is Johan Lange right that the race for hidden gems is over? Enya, a quantitative investor and former CPL player, says if it were true she wouldn't have a job.

Jim, Enya and Raj walk through how data is actually used in football recruitment, and why every Premier League club buying the same data doesn't mean every club ends up with the same shortlist. They cover Moneyball and the Oakland A's, the efficient market hypothesis, how Brighton and Brentford keep finding new edges, whether data can measure attitude (Rafael Leão), why Tottenham's two 17th-place finishes weren't really about signings like Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall, and the new depth with Marcos Senesi and Andy Robertson.

Then Raj goes back to the Villa game Spurs lost 3-2 but won on xG. You'll want to hear what he thinks it says about the rest of this season.

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