Ex MAN CITY data analyst shares secrets!

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Sports analysis, scouting and recruitment. Hear from football analysts, scouts and sporting directors to learn what goes on behind the scenes of a professional sports club. We cover video and data analysis, squad building, coaching and much more.

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Ex MAN CITY data analyst shares secrets! - Lee Mooney #79

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1 month ago

Ex MAN CITY data analyst shares secrets! - Lee Mooney #79

Ex MAN CITY data analyst shares secrets! - Lee Mooney #79Lee Mooney is a football-financial strategist, data scientist and entrepreneur. Currently the founder of a very interesting sports data start-up, MUD Analytics, he previously spent several years working in, and leading, the analytics and insights team at Manchester City.Lee shares some really interesting points about football recruitment, building squads, and managing budgets. We also speak about forecasting, AI in football and much more. One of my favourite episodes on the podcast so far!Please do subscribe if you haven't already, either here on Youtube, but also on Spotify too!0:00 - Introduction2:14 - Lee joins and gives background9:40 - Joining Man City14:39 - Different data roles, and what does Lee mainly do?18:06 - The Man City analytics department in the early days24:43 - Experimenting with AI early29:06 - Building squads and talent cost optimisation38:57 - Thinking about risk43:03 - Predictive analysis and forecasting in football analytics48:34 - How to measure alternative player 'attributes'51:27 - How multi-club ownership is effecting player recruitment58:05 - How can lower league clubs start to use more analytics1:04:40 - MUD Analytics1:13:34 - Lessons learnt from a 20+ year career in data1:33:00 - Book recommendations, wrap upCheck out MUD Analytics here: https://www.mudanalytics.co.uk/

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