{"product_id":"9780008484064","title":"Expected Goals: The story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFootball has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c\/em\u003e you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it’s not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it’s the people behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of modern football’s great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game. Central to this cast is Chris Anderson, an academic with no experience in football, who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed. His aim: to infiltrate the strange, insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExpected Goals\u003c\/em\u003e charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world, from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich, began to see how data could help them unearth new players, define radical tactics and plot their path to glory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book Expected Goals by Rory Smith, delves into the intricate world of soccer, where the best coaching strategies are now driven by data and statistics. It's a top pick for anyone interested in the business side of sports, especially the economics and probability aspects that are now integral to the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Tifo - The Athletic (How To Watch Football), James Tippett (The Expected Goals Philosophy), Jonathan Wilson (The Names Heard Long Ago), Stefan Szymanski (It's Football, Not Soccer), and Michael Lewis (Going Infinite).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins 2022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RORY SMITH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889010528405,"sku":"9780008484064","price":45.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008484064.jpg?v=1776888399","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008484064","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}