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« Last post by Penfold78 on Today at 07:50:17 am »
Thanks all. I’m kinda reassured by your confidence in our club. And I don’t mind the spiky comments. We have to use the forum as a safe space to properly debate stuff. It’d be a bit soviet if we all had to all repeat a positive pre determined narrative the whole time.
My only kick back at the responses is the one that doubles down on the belief in superior data science we deploy at the club. I’m in the data science trade, it’s my career. I run a dept of just under 30 analysts (I’m in the environmental sector so no, I’m not well paid….). We use R, Python, FME, Bayesian statistics, Monte Carlo modelling etc etc. We are only most confident with our outputs when we have a good, deep set of raw input data. Before LFC, Klopp had around 600 managerial games. Amorim and Slot less than half this number, around 230-250. Alonso even fewer. So I’m pretty sure a purely data driven assessment would have run short of statistical confidence, relative to other assessments. You may respond by pointing out that we also use data to recruit young players with fewer games and therefore less data but with players there is richer data because you can derive plenty of raw data around speed, stamina, positioning, passing distance, passing accuracy etc and everything else we used to get on Championship Manager. So I come back to my point that a strong element of subjectivity will have crept into this appointment and the left field nature can’t be explained adequately by our deployment of novel data analysis.