Ismail Gomez, data scientist and author of datosfutbol.cl, explains that most of the Chilean first division clubs pay membership to programs like Washout or Instate, video and analysis tools, which provide minute details of the teams of the different world leagues. Data from the championships of 112 countries, both from unknown tournaments and from the main leagues, have made life easier for managers, coaches and clubs.
However, they still do not include the analysis
with which they work in the old continent, favoring the videos generated by the club itself and which; using the aforementioned platforms, deliver reports to the technicians. In other words, the phenomenon of analytics is still a distant opportunity to include at the country level. “We have detected that there is a gap. Big Data is not so deeply rooted, there is distrust and old practices are privileged. It is not easy to change a paradigm”, says Gomes.
Pablo Tapia, founder of Futbolytics,
an application that uses the latest techniques to analyze a huge universe of players in Latin America, and which has 31,275 analyzed players belonging to 65 leagues, says that if similarity and performance algorithms were applied in the national league, they could find players with similar characteristics and for prices according to the market.
“One of the thanks of Big Data is that they can see where no one is looking,
giving a general sample of players to raise the level of local competitions,” he describes regarding the app, which counts nearly 1,200 athletes who compete in Chilean clubs. , from first to third division. For example, Universidad Catholics could review central defenders who share similarities with Benjamin Kuscevic, a player recently sold to Palmira’s, to replace him and respond before market prices.
Futbolytics also reviewed the panorama of Chilean players abroad.
Without applying bias, they mapped forwards who play in international leagues, reviewing according to data how they have behaved, generating a ranking, equally taking over the percentage of minutes played, goals scored and the league standard, according to analysis by specialized sites.
In the case of the recent payroll,
one of the names that attracts attention is Nicolas Castro, a 24-year-old Norwegian-Chilean footballer who, despite playing in the first division of the Nordic country, a league that does not stand out competitively in Europe , his numbers make him lead the ranking, with 4 goals in 21 games, accumulating 1,746 minutes. He figures that against Alexis Sanchez, a scorer who plays for Inter Milan, a “world-class” league, he has disparate numbers on the court in the face of the series of injuries suffered in recent times.
The 해외축구중계 analytics market is expected to grow at an annual rate of over 40% at a CAGR of 40.1% during the forecast period 2016-2022 to reach a total of US$3.97 billion by 2022, according to a study carried out by the consulting firm HTF Market.
