Data analytics in football - Kenneth Cortsen talks to Laurie Shaw from Harvard University by UCN/USF Sport Management - Sports Business Podcast

This podcast dives into the big pool of data characterizing the modern form of professional football (soccer in the US). There are still many questions to be asked and answered in this relatively new and growing area of modern football. Some of these areas are at the heart of this dialogue between Laurie Shaw and Kenneth Cortsen. Laurie and Kenneth discuss how data analytics cater to different stakeholders in football and also find time to assess what is nice to know and what is need to know concerning football analytics for some of these stakeholders, e.g. coaches, managers or CEOs in football. Moreover, the dialogue facilitates how research in football analytics, e.g., the work from FC Barcelona or FIFA presented at MIT's Sloan Sports Analytics conference, helps to frame and professionalize the current setting of football analytics in practice.

Laurie Shaw is from the UK, has a huge interest in football and is behind the EightyFivePoints football blog. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Data Science Initiative at Harvard University where he has played a central role in starting a new football analytics group.