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A conversation with Jay Socik @blades_analytic

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Jay, better known to most as @blades_analytic found some time between his various media appearances and promotion celebrations to chat football with me. Hello, you've become well known in football analytics twitter for your excellent work on EFL data. With the big 5 leagues dominating the stats world you've found a really good way of introducing the concepts lower down the pyramid. How did you first get interested in that side of the game? Delete this message sent from Stop Bunching! Apr 26 Sent   After studying performance analysis initially at university I traveled to America to coach. Whilst working with jnr academy level teams I found a whole new appreciation for the statistical concepts that dominate major American sports. I found it not only massively increased the quality of my analysis but that in general I was very interested in the data despite being very skeptical at first coming from the background of football knowledge Is in th