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Analytics has ruined sports…. And if you don’t understand why, then you’re probs a pocket protector wearing nerd who took his mom to the senior prom.

 

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Maybe we should just hire a calculator for head coach.

Analytics used to be called scouting. Football is a game that does not require too much machine intelligence. Instead, it is a game that needs skills and instincts of humans playing in it.

When you bring in analytics and technology and try to reduce the human element in the sport, it simply just crushes the spirit of the game. Relying on analytics heavily killed the Premier Leagues long ball game and brought in the pressing, continual passing tiki-taka. Each league for that matter had its own style of play. The Premier League had the brash and brazen style of football that was termed the way real men play football.

There were beautiful long balls, harsh tackles but all the players just sucked it up, walked it off and it was all up to the referee on the pitch to penalize the offender or not. There were arguments and fights, the passion from the fans was crazy, that was the football that screamed of passion, when players got in the face of other players not fearing punishment.

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