
Originally Posted by
Derbymiller
Statistics and data do get you points that is why all clubs use them now to input to their decision making in terms of fitness, tactics and player recruitment. You complain about recruitment on about injuries etc, well what do you think they use to identify possible recruits or to evaluate a recruit....yes you guessed it, statistically data that has been collected about that player, they will use that data to undertake a risk assessment, they will look at medical data as part of that assessment. They look at the data that comes of the devices the players wear to assess their fitness, Evans stated this last week when talking about JCH not being at the cardio levels required. The intelligent use of data and the statistically analysis of that data is a large part of the modern game and that usage impacts results.