• ‘It’s much misunderstood,’ he says of use of stats analysis
• Matthew Benham says Marinus Dijkhuizen’s appointment was a mistakeThe Brentford owner, Matthew Benham, and whose club has been a pioneer in the use of analytics in football,says that he hates the term Moneyball being applied to his team because it is so often misused and misunderstood.
Benham also denied that he was obsessed with data insisting that it was only one share of the package in running a football club – but acknowledged he felt the kicking he got from some sections of the media after sacking Marinus Dijkhuizen as manager may bear been partly justified.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com