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Post by Soccerhouse on Jul 25, 2016 8:55:18 GMT -5
from www.socceramerica.com"We won the game. That's what you do in soccer games. We were on the road in a venue where the team does pretty well at home. What are we complaining about? Then some moron will write that they had more shots than us thinking that's important. Actually, analytics in soccer, if no one here has figured it out, doesn't mean a whole lot. Analytics and statistics are used for people who don't know how to analyze the game. I'll be very honest with you, this isn't baseball or football or basketball. We have a very important analytic, and that's the score. That distorts all the other statistics." -- LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena with a dim view of use of analytics in soccer after the Galaxy's 2-1 win at Portland. (LA Galaxy Insider)
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Post by soccerfan30 on Jul 25, 2016 10:25:33 GMT -5
Or how about we had 80% posession so we dominated the game not understanding that all that posession was backwards and side to side, nothing into the attacking third. Numbers don't always tell the real story.
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Post by youthsoccerdad on Jul 26, 2016 11:30:20 GMT -5
Anyone that thinks analytics does not have a roll to play is a dummy. It is as dumb as a sales manager in business saying he is going with his gut with how to manage his team instead of tracking how his team is doing based on the number of outbound calls, pitches, proposals, etc. It is fair to say that you may choose ignore certain analytics in a game because your strategy was to park the bus, or based on your experience you disagree with the conclusion of the stats. Bruce is ultimately right though it is the score that matters, but if you don't measure the other things you are going to be at a loss to figure out how to fix them when you have a scoring issue.
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