Imagine a league with 20 teams, each requires a right back and a pool of the best 20 right backs are gathered together, with the clubs, in a room. Each club submits it’s list of the 20 players in ranked order from most to least preferred. Each player submits their Read more…
MRKT Insights LLP are a football consultancy partnership specialising in technical scouting, recruitment, and analytics. We are actively recruiting for clients at several different levels of football. In order to provide our clients with the best possible service, we welcome contact from player agencies, intermediaries, and directly from clubs. We Read more…
MRKT Insights is a new company that has drawn together data scientists, scouts, and analysts. We offer bespoke services to each client depending on their needs. The work can be extremely complicated. But technical scouting doesn’t have to be comlex. The below blogs were written over the course of the Read more…
Billy Beane didn’t choose to use the sabermetric and data-driven processes we know as “Moneyball” because he loved statistics. He did it because sensible use of data gave his team a competitive advantage over his opponents. In football, we are still at the early adopter phase, just using data sensibly Read more…
Imagine a 20 team league, where every team is exactly equal with equally skilled players. Every team creates exactly 4 good chances a game, each chance has a 50% chance of being scored. I think most people would say if every team is exactly as good, and create exactly as many chances Read more…
The more that I have met people working in football the more curious I have become about the ability for smart clubs to exploit the seemingly inefficient way football seems to deal with player recruitment. I can understand at the money no object end of the game with multi-million-pound decisions Read more…
We are delighted to announce that our new partnership, MRKT Insights LLP, has been selected to work exclusively in the Championship for Swansea City FC to provide analytical and scouting services. We look forward to collaborating with the recruitment and analysis departments for the 2019/20 season and beyond.
Millwall 2018/19 season analysis Millwall lined up in either a 4-4-2 or a 4-5-1 formation. The average pass position of each player with over 300 passes over the season is shown below. The size of the dots represents the number of passes each player made. You can see that the Read more…
Passing – failures are as important as successes I’ve been thinking a lot about passing recently. It seems to be the area where I think there is most room for improving what analytics can offer. The traditional response to passing percentage statistics is “anyone can pass the ball under no Read more…
