So much ignorance in this thread about what a data scientist is. We already have people who can you tell the % of corners we score from and how often we lose the ball and all that. That doesn’t take a data scientist, any bright high school student can do that.
We probably have big data on all matches and what happens in-play from a provider like OPTA. Based on what is being observed in the game in-play and all the games we’ve observed before, I’d be surprised if some clubs don’t have good recommendation systems, or at the very least models that can simulate what happens if an action is taken (it sounds like Liverpool do).
The other obvious one is transfers. We already have data analysts, but that still relies on a person interpreting the data, rather than models making predictions and recommendations.
It’s hard to make any educated guesses about how useful this role will be without knowing what kind of data we’re working with and how predictable the problem outcomes are, but it would be criminal in this day and age for any large organizations to not be trying to leverage its data this way.
I work as a data analyst, it’s really clear in this thread who doesn’t understand it.
