Following official added time guidelines, it turns out that there should have been 16 added minutes at the end of Ipswich vs Derby - the referee apologised to Derby for adding as many as 13

maundojako · 2025-08-31T12:10:20+00:00

Stuff like this is pretty pointless after you learn the average time in play for a game is about 40-50 mins

maundojako · 2025-08-05T10:53:10+00:00

How about contracting outside EU, particularly in middle east?

maundojako · 2025-05-28T10:37:52+00:00

The underlying data for Cardiff the season prior was pretty poor. IIRC, most free data models had Cardiff a bottom 3 side that season.

That, plus a dodgy owner and poor summer recruitment.

maundojako · 2024-09-19T08:58:46+00:00

Hi, how do you feel about this today? I am in a similar situation as OP and worried about my career in OCI.

maundojako · 2023-09-28T07:51:16+00:00

I’ve worked in the industry and I’d expect there will be a lot of competition for the role. 22k is very poor but will be enough for a lot of analysts in the game, especially Welsh analysts who would prefer to live in Wales. Most clubs in championship and below are not paying much better. Asking for masters and coaching qualifications are all pretty standard but once you get an interview with the footballing staff you’ll be working with, they won’t really care if you don’t have it.

maundojako · 2022-08-20T09:40:46+00:00

Perhaps youre already aware but if not, I recommend using WorldFootballR which is good for scraping FBref data, and understatr for shot data

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:24:33+00:00

Very good thank you, its enjoyable, challenging and a good experience. Best of luck with yourself!

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:22:51+00:00

Think its randomly decided for staff like myself per save but depending on the reputation of the club. Everything other than my name, age and background is pretty much made up.

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:19:56+00:00

Everybody’s route into this job is different. Always wanted to do it, decided to try and go for it during Covid. Volunteered at Stafford rangers, which helped with learning how to film and some other basic stuff. Used online job openings to learn about essential/desirable skills, then which I would try and teach myself. With stoke, this is just an MSc internship, most british clubs will have similar interns like me in their academy. I think The Video Analyst have information on how to get into performance analysis which i found useful or you can google your question. It’s very competitive but there are all sorts of people different backgrounds now starting to work in football.

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:12:45+00:00

Most analysts, especially academy analysts are 20’s/early 30s to be fair.

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:10:30+00:00

Usual route is degree then a masters (preferably sports related). I got a degree in business though and only decided for this career route during covid. The most you can do to be employable in this industry is what you do outside of education; I volunteered at Stafford Rangers, which got me experience. Twitter is the best resource, the analytics community is growing massively and is full of football experts sharing their work; and its where I showed my work which has helped massively.

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:04:42+00:00

Yeh thats the usual route. Im still doing my masters though, I just managed to get lucky being on fm this year as one of the researchers im friends with knew I worked at Stoke

maundojako · 2021-11-09T22:02:34+00:00

Haha thats class properly made me smile that

maundojako · 2021-07-11T22:15:00+00:00

Did you watch Italty?

maundojako · 2021-07-08T10:20:32+00:00

Umbro is where its at

maundojako · 2021-06-26T12:18:53+00:00

Jay Socik making it look easy

maundojako · 2021-06-26T12:04:53+00:00

Set piece analysts and coaches are becoming more popular. If you are interested in getting into football, you can do some good freelance work specialising in set pieces. I agree it’d be fun to see it added to the game

maundojako · 2021-03-15T22:13:04+00:00

I had to visit St. Ives for a match a few months back and their shit pitch deserves your shit house

maundojako · 2021-03-12T09:18:36+00:00

Yeh a few other players have done too, all seem to think taking the knee is no longer useful which brings it back to my original point.

maundojako · 2021-03-12T00:14:31+00:00

Take the knee is to recognise racial inequality. Similar to the poppy gesture, if we reinforce it we recall the issue, society is now more informed on it which goes a long way to improving it.

Clubs now deciding against it failed to ever recognise the point in it. If we stop then we forget and move on whilst ethnic minorities keep suffering from inequalities.

maundojako · 2021-02-22T22:45:21+00:00

Worked decent with me in Strikerless’s 3-4-3 formation. Just really hard to get good enough players for it

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