Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing

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Our guest today is Ted Knutzen, the owner of Statsbaum,

a soccer analytics company.

We discuss the growing role of analytics and soccer today, Ted's story of going

from the University of Oklahoma to living and working in England, how he developed a relationship

with Bob Bradley, and his thoughts on the impact of this week's Supreme Court ruling on sports gambling when it comes to soccer

The difference in moneyball in soccer and moneyball in American sports is that in soccer like you have direct profits you know like

you buy and sell players for money so it's easy to keep track as opposed to you know

baseball and stuff where like you know you kind of have to figure out your

profitability out of the picks your profitability out of the

Pix you made out of the draft that the draft you know then guys get traded and you

don't have like the direct same assets so it's a much cleaner I guess way of

tracking your your progress in soccer than it would be in the US.

All that and more coming up.

Our guest today is Ted Knutzen.

He's an American who lives and works in England and he's the owner of Stats Bomb, a soccer analytics company.

Ted had a big announcement of a new Stats Bomb initiative on May 9th, and I'm really excited to have him on the show.

Ted, welcome.

Thank you, happy to be here.

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