"One of the main advantages of trying to use objective information to improve your soccer club's decision-making is that most of the American sports are much further ahead. If you want it, they provide a rare kind of vision of the future: you can study the teams who did it right in other sports, and you can steal their ideas. The answers to the test are available, and you won't get punished for looking at them."
"In baseball, where just about every club is run by some guy with an Ivy League degree and every club is making decisions backed up by more data than any soccer club could ever imagine, the big-name players just below the superstar tier now command less money on the open market. That's because teams have gotten so good at measuring minute details like the launch angle of the bat and the spin rates created by a pitcher's grip"
Data and analytics can help soccer clubs win more games by providing objective information to improve decision-making. American professional sports demonstrate the benefits and pitfalls of league-wide data adoption. Teams in other sports have advanced analytics that offer replicable strategies and measurable performance metrics. Widespread use of data has sometimes reduced market value for veteran or mid-tier players as teams precisely measure aging and technical details. Baseball clubs now use detailed metrics like launch angle and pitch spin rate to identify and fix cheaper players. Soccer has not reached that analytics saturation point, and player behavior is adapting around available information.
Read at ESPN.com
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