Liverpool’s Title Win Breakdown + Salah & VVD Contract News with Ian Graham Insights

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Liverpool's original data analytics wizard, Ian Graham, joins Rog for an in-depth discussion on how Liverpool used data analytics to build a Premier League and Champions League winning team. Ian also discusses the boom in analytics in football and talks about the future of data analytics in the sport and why some teams are still hesitant to embrace it.
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"Running the Game" is a series from Men in Blazers where we speak to the brightest minds working behind-the-scenes at some of the biggest clubs in the world. We go deep on the business of football, boardroom strategy, and culture building to learn all it takes to run an elite football club today.

00:00 - The early days of data/analytics in football
06:50 - early Player Ratings models
13:54 - “I don’t like to watch players until I look at the data”
18:14 - Messi and Arnautović player comp?
20:14 - Squad building through data
23:12 - What the data said about Mo Salah
30:55 - Finding Virgil van Dijk and Alisson
34:42 - What data said about Andy Robertson
40:06 - Transforming Liverpool
42:33 - Enter Arne Slot
48:14 - does Mo and VVD’s new contracts make sense?
50:47 - how clubs can exploit the data
53:18 - the future of data analytics in Premier League
57:52 - how to improve Wrexham

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