Blunts Want Odour

[Dragon Tyke]

£2+ million and a 15% sell on and they would let him go.

[DOOALI]

Peanuts feeding the monkeys running this circus 🐒🐵🐒🐵🐒🦁🐒🐵

[animallittle3]

We are a development parnd shop for clubs to pick off the shelves the player they fancy.

We stock up with young players, the more the better. Twelve last summer made it the best ever. Put them all on 4 year contracts, sell after two years development. Regular Clearance Sales of duds left on shelves gathering dust.

The effect of a transfer on the team's football ambitions is irrelevant.

#Profit Before Ambition

The fundamental difference with Billy Beane's cross over between baseball and football is the actual objectives of the Oakland A's and Barnsley football club .

Let's for the sake of argument say the data based model of recruitment does convert between the two sports .

The Oakland A's use the model to find undervalued players to enable them to compete as a very low budget franchise .

The transfer market doesn't exist as such within the MLB , players are generally traded between clubs as swaps or draft picks from the universities .

When contracts are up they are free agents and even within contracts they can be waived and got rid of .

It's a totally different culture , if the A's find a player it's to the benefit of their season until his contract is up that is .

It's not really about financing the club , it's already financed every year with the way sports clubs operate in the US .

You could finish bottom of the league one year and win the world series the next but it's unlikely you'd see too much difference in the budget in Oakland .

[Wardy]

Nah, can't see it

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Leeds fan in peace - hey Acido lad. good luck for next season hope you lads go well and get into the top 6.

Not sure Moneyball translates so easily to football as more variability in football with the ball being lost and regained. Of all team sports the favourite loses more often in football than other sports such as baseball.

If you like that sort stuff Soccernomics is a good read but will change how you look at football forever.

Hope you keep hold of your better players and get some decent loans in - there is a lad at the back from down south who is pretty good - goes by the name of White.

[animallittle3]

Leeds fan in peace - hey Acido lad. good luck for next season hope you lads go well and get into the top 6.

Not sure Moneyball translates so easily to football as more variability in football with the ball being lost and regained. Of all team sports the favourite loses more often in football than other sports such as baseball.

If you like that sort stuff Soccernomics is a good read but will change how you look at football forever.

Hope you keep hold of your better players and get some decent loans in - there is a lad at the back from down south who is pretty good - goes by the name of White.

I read the book a few years ago , it lost credibility with me when it said it was inevitable the US and Iran would eventually become world super powers .

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Hehe true - have you read the pyramid game - that is quite good and the nowhere men about scouts was also interesting.

How is Mowatt doing for you lads - always liked him?

[SBRed48]

Hehe true - have you read the pyramid game - that is quite good and the nowhere men about scouts was also interesting.

Tha'll nivva beat the original Baden Powell book "Scouting for Boys".

[Exiletyke]

Might be a bit of fun to name your best books
I'll start

Over the edge by Eileen Toofar

[SBRed48]

"Struber's Promotion Season" by Rose Tint.