Stats Perform and Birkbeck continue football analytics cooperation

Stats Perform and Birkbeck, University of London have once again teamed up to deliver a dedicated football analytics module

Stats Perform and Birkbeck, University of capital of the United Kingdom have erst once again teamed upwardly to deliver a dedicated football game analytics module.

For the quaternary yr running, both parties will cooperate on an online course as component part of the university’s Sports Management and Business of Football postgraduate programme.

The Master of Science (MSc) module testament lead off tomorrow, Tuesday 26 April, and comprise weekly lectures led by manufacture experts.

“We are rattling well-chosen to be continuing our collaboration with Birkbeck, which we number 1 proclaimed support in 2018,” said Ben Mackriell, Vice President of Data, AI and Pro Products at Stats Perform.

“The propose of the trend is to precis the nucleus bedrock around football analytics, taking into account statement the rapidly evolving data landscape painting for clubs and practitioners.”

He added: “By delivering this course of instruction remotely, we can buoy cater Birkbeck’s MSc students and manufacture practitioners, based around the world, with an ideal chance to obtain new insights into understanding analytical concepts which tin can live of benefit to their future career.”

According to Stats Perform, during the programme’s eight-week run, students will follow granted an unveiling to “core analytical approaches and concepts,” with a focalise on how to apply them inward day-to-day tasks and long-term strategic planning.

Students testament live further introduced to different analytical technologies and information visualisation, among other topics.

Dr Giambattista Rossi, a lecturer at Birkbeck’s Department of Management, commented: “This module has proved increasingly popular with our students year-on-year, so I am real pleased that we testament follow partnering again with Stats Perform for a fourth successive summer.

“By involving different experts during for each one lecture, our enrolled MSc students will capture the chance to evolve a detailed savvy of the magnetic core fundamentals of applied football game analytics.”