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The ArsenalVision Podcast - Arsenal FC

Episode 526 - Sarah Rudd - Former Head Of Analytics At Arsenal

The ArsenalVision Podcast - Arsenal FC

ArsenalVision Podcast LLC

Sports, Soccer

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of the Arsenal Vision Post Match Podcast, Elliot (@yankeegunner) is joined by Sarah Rudd (@srudd_ok) the former head of analytics at Arsenal (and long time Arsenal supporter). The conversation covers a wide range of topics from how analytics are used within football clubs, to the difference between public and non-public data, to the problems with data in football and what the data misses, to the way way data has to be sold to people within clubs and outside of clubs as well as a few anecdotes and more. All that and more on this edition of the Arsenal Vision Post Match Podcast. Signup for our Patreon at patreon.com/arsenalvisionpodcast Get our latest merch at avpodshop.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What a great.

0:14.0

What a popular sober goal, my dearie, all right?

0:33.5

Possibilities here in the second. Udo W. Remember all the Furnalke Remember all those debates we had over the FB Ref data?

0:35.5

Well, it's time to find out just how wrong we were.

0:37.1

This is the Arsenal Vision post-match podcast.

0:39.1

My name's Alec Timothy Gabat me on Twitter, Angi Gunner.

0:34.9

Yeah, you know, the debates where someone says, I like this player, we should sign that player, and someone else throws up the green bars from FB Ref and goes, ha ha, I can settle the argument with my fancy data that I got from this publicly available website. And everyone goes, what? that doesn't settle the argument and then they argue more.

0:35.9

It's fun.

0:36.5

It's a never-ending story.

0:37.5

It's a circle of life.

0:38.5

But we're about to find out

0:39.3

how it's really done

0:58.1

because we are going to talk to the former head of analytics at arsenal Sarah Rudd that's right

1:04.3

she was head of analytics at Arsenal formerly of stats DNA stats DNA of course acquired by

1:10.0

arsenal she became the head of analytics at Arsenal over time, someone with a tremendous

1:14.7

background, but also got into it as an Arsenal fan.

1:17.8

Was an Arsenal fan?

1:18.5

You'll hear about that in the interview.

1:20.8

It sort of drew her into football analytics.

1:23.7

She's now onto another venture pursuing a similar area, but we're going to keep all of that very hush-hush and top secret.

1:30.7

But it's an interview I've really been looking forward to because I think as we try to incorporate data into our process of discussing football, there are always going to be people that say, screw the data.

1:40.3

Fair enough.

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