Signing within your budget
Who gives you the most for what you can spend, and who plays most like the player you're losing.
For Clubs
Data help for your football club
A lot of football decisions still come down to gut feel: who to sign, which trialists to keep, whether a bad run is bad luck. I've spent 35+ years building models for banks, insurers, manufacturers and retailers, and this site shows the same methods working on football. If you're involved with a club, whatever the league, I'd like to help, and it won't cost the club anything.
Bryan McGuire
Data scientist and engineer
The kind of questions I can help with
Trialists and the academy
Why picking the best few can fool you about what matters, and how to judge trialists fairly.
Bad run or bad manager?
How far below expectations a run has to go before it means something, and how often it happens by luck alone.
Set pieces
Who marks whom at corners, worked out rather than guessed.
Rotating the squad
Spreading minutes across a busy run of fixtures without losing the games that matter.
Shape and movement
What each run opens and closes, and when a pass is really on.
Or anything else your club is wondering about.
You don't need a data department
Results, line-ups, who played how many minutes, and a phone video of your set pieces are enough to start. If it's in a spreadsheet or a notebook, I can work with it.
Need help for your club?
- Cost to the club
- Nothing
- Questions
- As many as you like
- Who it's for
- Anyone at any club
I've spent my working life answering questions for businesses that could afford to ask them. Most football clubs can't, and that bothers me. So ask me whatever's on your mind. I'll explain what I find in plain English, and you keep whatever I build.
All I'd ask is to write some of it up here, so other clubs can learn from it too. Your club's name stays out of it if you'd rather, and nothing goes up without your OK.
Rather email? bryan@bryanmcguire.co.uk. Or book a free call.