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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022

Football has always measured success by what you win but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played coached scouted and consumed But its not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change its the people behind them
This is the story of modern footballs great data revolution and the group of curious entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game Central to this cast is Chris Anderson an academic with no experience in football who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed His aim to infiltrate the strange insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data
Expected Goals charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich began to see how data could help them unearth new players define radical tactics and plot their path to glory