Article 75PAE Man City’s dribbles to Wolves’ counterpress: each Premier League team’s strongest trait this season

Man City’s dribbles to Wolves’ counterpress: each Premier League team’s strongest trait this season

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John Muller
from US news | The Guardian on (#75PAE)

As the campaign draws to a close, we looked at what each of the teams did best this season in the English top-flight

What enriches you is the game, not the result. The result is a piece of data," the Spanish football coach Juanma Lillo once said. The birthrate goes up. Is that enriching? No. But the process that led to that? Now that's enriching."

Let that serve as the thinking behind the first annual Football Style Awards, a celebration of process over results. These awards are not about who won, though they are about pieces of data. A club data scientist friend and I have spent the last year building a new football app called futi that measures not just who's good but what they're good at, based on detailed phase of play data and models that measure how teams and players play.

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