Following on from our discussion yesterday about adopting one or two of the techniques the enormously successful GB Olympic cycling team there are other areas where a technical advantage can be sought.
Football is awash with metrics these days. Clubs know things about their players they never even wondered about 10 years ago, leading to more informed decisions. It is probably no exaggeration to suggest that a club like Celtic will have some information on thousands of players. At the top level, much of this information will be fresh in the minds of coaches and scouts, and will easily be recorded on a database, but scouting permeates through youth football. Acquiring and assimilating information on the many hundreds of players on view each month is an information challenge.
The US sports were early to get on top of this problem. SportsBoard is a iPad-based data capture and management app which enables coaches and scouts to record information on players (their own players and others) as they watch the game. Data is uploaded from the iPad to a cloud-based database. Information and comment on each player or opposing team can then easily be analysed.
The alternative would be to scour through unstructured notes without any way of controlling the up-flow of information.
The app has also been used to provide instant metrics to first team squads. Players can get home from training, login and see how their performance was rated that day, allowing them to adjust their own target for the next session. I spoke to the designer, Gregg Jacobs, who has received a ton of media coverage in the US over the last two years. He told me this was about providing “more meaningful feedback”. Take a look at the Assessment and Contact Management features, which has screenshots of the ‘soccer’ app.
So this week we’ve covered orthopaedic pillows on tour and leg heaters from the GB cycling team, as well as a scouting management and instant metrics system from US sports, all low-cost and designed to reduce risk and improve performance.
Should we do it?
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Hacking into an encrypted NSA computer system would be easier to work out than some of the posts on here.
InthedarkCSC
I got a txt from a friend that works deep in the bowels of a certain Glasgow tabloid. His whisper is that Hoops is off to Spurs this week…
Don’t blame the messenger…
If Hoops gets the shout from Spurs- he will need to go. I doubt he’d make it there mind you.
Skal I’m not rubbishing your post. I am grateful to you for pointing out AM and GH holiday together. I take your word on that point.
I hope you’re not offended that I checked AM’s statement. I did so is because I’m likely to bury your point in my memory so I wanted to verify it to the letter.
I’m more than a wee bit sensitive to paraphrasing when it might change the complexion of someone’s statement. I’m confident that was not your intention.
I hope you’ll accept my initial response in the spirit of “Celtic Quick News: not lazy journalism “
Spurs I could accept but Northwich Victoria……
gordybhoy
It is not meant as a direct reply, more of a piss take on his insecurities.
It is hard to work out whether to ignore the stuff and go on talking to others in the hope he gets bored.
The downside to that is that his racist filth gets left unchallenged.
I see no chance in educating the boy. His mind is already too twisted.
So I’ll settle for mockery, gentle or savage, but he will be mocked, so that he knows his trolling nonsense has no purchase here.
ZIMMERMAN 2010
Everything written by PG Wodehouse WAS a work of genius.
It rarely translates to the screen,unfortunately.
It has little chance of translating to the younger generation,though I’ve tried.
Dunno what they’re missing,IMO.
SFTB
Are you interpreting my post as racist?
KOJO 1854
Alf Tupper……………
Aye,I doff my cap to that analogy.
Nice one,bud!
Cultsbhoy
Black sprinters and boxers win well into their thirties.
SFTB, I see where you’re coming from but I just wouldn’t even give him the satisfaction of any kind of reply
Cults Bhoy
Nothing to do with your postings.
Cultsbhoy I don’t think SFTB was referring to you in his post
Rascar
Treading a thin line politically here, my point is as much to do with genetic stocky build as it is to do with being African…
All I’m saying is Vic could very well be at his career height in terms of saleability….as painful as it feels now may be the optimal price for Vic.
Like any Celtic fan Id love him to stay but reality is he has outgrown what Zceltic can offer out with Champs league.
SFTB
Phew – as I was making an objective point. I abhor any form of discrimination ( except anti-Sevco views). :0)
Look should Gary Hooper decide he’s done enough at Celtic and he leaves this window and gives us a right few quid then he goes with all of us knowing the boy did well for us and he gave his all while playing in the shirt.
No one can ask him to do any more or less whether he goes now or in the summer but he will go.
The thing is regardless of the fee, should he leave now Celtic must use that money to buy a replacement because the forward line without Hooper is dismal in my view.
Miku and Bangura are useless and neither should be at Celtic come June.
Tony Watt is learning and cannot be expected to fire in the goals that would win us a title and a possible treble on his own.
Samaras scores 10 a season if he is lucky
Lassad has 3 goals
Not enough to see us through to May.
Anthony Stokes IS capable of filling Hooper’s shoes BUT:
a. Will he be fit and stay that way?
b. He is out of contract soon – does he have a future with Celtic?
c. Is he in the manager’s plans?
d. Are the off – field problems going to be an on-field problem?
Quite frankly, Hooper is the best man to put the ball in the net who we have and replacing him will not come cheap for someone as effective unless John Park has someone up his sleeve but January is notorious for getting in quality.
A loan player may suffice but it is still a gamble.
Charlie Austin is not going to come for anything less than 5M if English markets are anything to go by. Would Peter Lawwell sanction this? I seriously doubt it.
Jonny Russell to me is the only sensible choice if we want someone who can do it at SPL level as the money would be right and the boy looks to me like he could make the step up. There are no other SPL strikers worth comment (not even Griffiths).
Should Hooper stay all this is academic BUT in my view it is a huge gamble if we let him go and get no one in.
COWIEBHOY
Dreadful news,my condolences to you on the loss of a dear friend.
Please pass on my best wishes to his family.
Shocking that a fella trying to make his way in life should be considered a legitimate target,and struck down.
Cultsbhoy
Of course there are genetic differences, and if you talk about them folk get uneasy.
Dutch people are generally taller than pygmies.
Aboriginal Aussies generally last longer in the sun than Clydebank folk.
On build, I would think that Sutton was fitter than Hartson later in his career.
But was that build, or temperament?
Or are they linked?
Argghhhh!
For Fun and interest, I augmented Snake’s excellent list with my own marks out of 100:
Snake Plissken
22:26 on 21 January, 2013
zimmerman
The Master – Not seen it, looking for it.
Argo – ditto
The Intouchables (french) – ditto
Shame – 75/100 great lead performance from Fassbender.
The Angel’s share – got it, not yet seen.
Troll Hunter (Norwegian) – 72/100 Fun, interesting, good watch.
Senna (Documentary) – not seen.
Ted – 85/100 Ridiculously funny, much more than I expected.
The Devil’s Double – got it, not seen.
Adventureland – 70/100 Velvet Underground cool.
Fish Tank – not seen.
Kick Ass – 77/100 Sparks of brilliance, Hit Girl hilarious.
The killer inside me – not seen
Moon – 70/100 intriguing, but guessed the twist.
Submarine – 70/100 Quirky, very watchable, 2 really good young actors.
Four Lions – 73/100 Love Chris Morris, some memorable black comedy here.
Tyranosaur – got it, not seen yet.
The Guard – ditto
Hobo with a Shotgun – not seen.
We need to talk about Kevin – 73/100 Disturbing, great performances, gets more relevant every day.
Super 8 – 70/100 Takeaway Speilberg, familiar but still enjoyable sci-fi.
Drive – 77/100 Laden with cool, sometimes loses its way, but Gosling extremely watchable.
Hugo – 75/100 Sparkles with classic kids fantasy from the book and a nice sentimental edge from Scorcese.
The Ides of march – got it, not yet seen.
The Girl with the Dragon tatoo (Swedish) – 85/100 Brilliant. The only one to watch.
The Girl who played with Fire (Swedish) – 77/100 As with any second trilogy part, stagnates slightly but still sizzles.
The Girl who kicked the Hornet’s nest (Swedish) – 82/100 Tremendous ending, awesome lead performance.
The Muppets 2012 – got it, kids love it.
All of these are rather good in my humble opinion
And I’ll add:
Life Of Pi – 80/100 Not as mystical as the book but utterly beautiful in 3D.
Lincoln – 75/100 surprisingly better than I expected. Has all familiar biographic traits but adds great tension and gravitas by being mainly based around the month before America’s crucial slavery vote.
Dredd – 88/100 Pine for the days of Dirty Harry, Mad Max, Escape From New York, Terminator, Robocop? It’s all here, an incredible surprise in this PC future we live in. Relentless cool, uncompromising ultra-violence; they don’t make ’em like this any more but thank God someone did. It’s retro sci-fi murderous brilliance. Sequel please!
Lined up this weekend – Django Unchained, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver linings Playbook.
CQNmoviereviews CSC, ‘the only show in town’ (copyright retard zombies, div 3 SFL).
Spurs eh?
The gigolos of English fitba
over the years spending nay squandering millions on glamour players -and what do they have to show?
a few FA cups & League Cups – a few minor European baubles
The last time they won a league J.F. Kennedy was president!
teeny weeny stadium – support full of blowhards
more to be pitied than scorned really but really enjoy ripping the p@sh oot their delusional fans :-)
Rascar, if you have seen me in dalmuir park with a carry oot on a sunny
day then you would know I could give any aborigine a run for their money
in the sunbathing stakes
NTASSOOLLA
Nice to see you back on the site.
Any chance of you making The Doric Arch around 530 on Saturday?
Right beside Euston Station,I’ll be there for a coupla hours.
Lovely wee pub.
Gordybhoy64
I got badly sunburned playing golf in Dalmuir in April!
Sandman instead of all the new films you’re lined up to see this weekend, why no watch some of those on the list that you’ve got but haven’t seen, makes sense to me ;-)))
Barrynormancsc
Rascar, aye the good old clydebank weather,it could be beating down with sun on the fiifth at dalmuir and pouring with rain on hill 60
Ntassoolla
00:57 on 22 January, 2013
Not at all sir. It’s great to hear someone actually read my comment and took the time to respond.
You may have noticed I am not a regular poster on here. The simple reason i’ve not had much practice in writing in the last 15 years since leaving school and that the level of writing on here is so high at times that it leaves me a little intimidated to dip my toe in.
Yeah, the boys like a little holiday together, Hoops has got some cracking pictures up on his instagram account of him Ledley and Matthews having a week in Dubai just there on the winter break.
Anyway, cheers for conversing with me and I agree with you 100% on the ethos of this site, “not lazy journalism”
Always learning csc
Skål
GORDYBHOY64
If you and your bro ever make it to Swindon,sunburn might be the least of your worries,and I hope someday you will.
Burned from the inside out………….
philbhoy – it’s just the beginning!
21:38 on 21 January, 2013
>>>>
Being a grown-up, I can see some merit in what you say. And being a fan of olive branches, I hereby accept.
I hope you do well with staying off the bevy, even if it’s only for charitable purposes.
I have my reasons for feeling extremely irate at times, and sometimes it all comes out sideways; almost immediately I regret my outbursts, but by then it’s too late. Damage done.
Mostly to myself.
You’d think I would’ve learned by now.
Anyway…
….I hope we keep Hooper and Big Vic, at least until the summer.
Hooper was an amazing find, and Big Vic is one of the best all-rounders I have ever seen in a lfetime of watching football, and he deserves the greatest stages to play on.
However, I hope he does a Henrik and devotes his greatest years to us.
HH.
SKAL
With respect to yourself and to other posters,your writing is beyond reproach.
Welcome to the site,feel free to dip your toe more often,please…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS thanks for the encouragement and the invite.
I was on a wee break which ended in an almighty drinking session and then a see you next Tuesday of a journey back to London yesterday. 3 hrs on the tarmac in France. 3 hrs Gatwick to my place. Made bearable by a Scottish head of cabin crew who dealt with the aggressive complaints it in that easy, dismissive, seen it all before way which I often envy in gay men.
Followed by another almighty drinking session.
I came on here to cheer myself up and then had a piece of news while on here which has floored me – and shocked me out of my hangover induced self pity.
So I may see you Saturday.
Another great man, with great things to say:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
MIKI67
You are also welcome anytime in Swindon,not too far.
Moonhowlers are really ok in the flesh,honest.
And I promise not to put any of them in my curry!
BMCUW, alright pal, funny youre here, I was on ebay today buying some hot sauces
for a bhoys night we are having on saturday,made with ghost peppers and chillies
they will defenitely separate the men from the boys
saltires en sevilla –
Agree with you about Spurs fans being delusional.
They actually believe they have the biggest worldwide support of any other club in the UK. I lived in North London in the 80s and that was their general consensus. No amount of evidence could disabuse them of that ridiculous notion.
I used to watch Spurs then and saw them win the FA Cup twice, including that memorable 3-2 replay victory over Man City when the REAL football fans got tickets. What a party that was.
Gordybhoy64
I remember my brother in law brought a wee fat salesman type to play golf with us.
We were all pish, but this wee guy was all talk and bling.
Anyway, his tee shot at Hill 60 only made it half way up, so he heads of into the jungle in a really bad mood to look for his ball.
He finds it (or some other ball) and is so pissed off he swings at it without taking the bag of clubs off his back.
At the top of the back swing he loses his balance and rolls all the way to the bottom of Hill 60.
We couldn’t play another sensible shot that day for laughing.
He never cracked a smile.
NTASSOOLA
If that was the post from COWIEBHOY-or related to it-it makes all our problems seem like little ones.
Either way,I wish you the best dealing with bad news,and thank the Lord that I am not going through that.
I think you may know A CEILER GONOF RUST,in which case,he will be able to pass on my mobile number.
If not,I’ll be the fella wi the khaki jacket and the black case and no wheels asking for a pint of Carling.
I hope things are better for you then regardless.
Skal, it’s not how you write, it’s what you write where I’m concerned.
I tend to be brief and/or dense in my posts. Cue the jokes. Sometimes I come across as cutting. I try to change this but I can’t.
So please post again with what you have to contribute. News, snippets, opinion – it’s all welcome.
I quickly read most of what is on here but ignore the elongated and verbose. No apologies for my choice of vocabulary. Always have one or two on-line dictionaries open.
I’ve just started reading “Skagboys” – no dictionary for that one.
Irvine Welsh – Wannabee Glaswegian.
GORDYBHOY64
IMO,best way is to hold some back till just before serving.
Chop finely,throw them in only enough to warm them.
And remember the miracle of the wine at Canaan,best was held back till last!