Dan Altman on The Best Goalkeepers Today

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Dan Altman, the creator of the free soccer data site SmarterScout.com, speaks with Grant about data analytics and goalkeeping, answering a bunch of intriguing questions. Who are the best shot-stoppers in world soccer today? Who are the best goalkeepers with outfield skills? Which keepers are overrated and underrated in the data? What makes Brazilians Ederson and Alisson so good? And who are the top keepers in MLS and on the USMNT? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.8	Hey there I'm Grant Wall. Welcome to the Planet Football
0:31.3	podcast. This week's interview guest is Dan Altman, the creator of Smarter Scout.com,
0:37.6	who's here to go in depth on goalkeepers. Onward.
0:41.2	Today is all about
0:45.0	goalkeepers on the Planet Football Podcast and our guest is Dan Altman. He is the creator of Smarter Scout, which brings data analytics to the people.
0:58.0	Dan, thanks for coming back on the show and fill me in or fill our listeners in on what is Smarter Scout.
1:05.0	So Smarter Scout.com is a website which brings sports analytics,
1:10.0	specifically soccer analytics to a broad audience really for the first time.
1:14.1	You can look at player metrics from around the world.
1:17.4	We've got 45 leagues from around the world.
1:19.1	We cover almost all of Europe, all of South America's main leagues, Asia, and you can see player metrics for all of those for free with 3D heat maps and side by side comparisons, all sorts of fun stuff, and you can even benchmark all of the metrics that you see to one
1:35.0	league so you can say well I want to see a Paraguayan League player by an
1:38.2	MLS standard or a Bundesliga player by a la Liga standard All of that is automatic and free and instantaneous.
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