A conversation with Paul Riley @footballfactman
I'm joined today by one of the elder statesmen of football analytics in the UK, Paul Riley aka @ footballfactman . In fact we've known of eachother via an Everton message board for a long time, little did I know that you were living a double life as a football analytics blogger with thousands of twitter followers. Take me back to the start, how did you become interested and aware of the stats side of the game? Delete this message sent from Stop Bunching! Apr 26 Sent Delete this message sent from Stop Bunching! Apr 26 S I think it first started properly when I was trying to come up with a better way of picking fair 5-a-side teams for my weekly game at work. The lad organising it used to pick the teams after scraping ten available from a pool of about thirty. After spending so much time into getting enough players, he'd just put the teams whichever way because he'd had enough. The scores were often very lopsided and t...