ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[loooweee]

There is more to it than that, it's about finding players who offer more value statistically to your playing strategy than the competition and capitalizing on their relative market value to their value to your team.

It would work much better for Brentford because it is easier to gain a larger marginal advantage at that level. The competition for players and the difference in values the teams are capable of paying are very different in terms of range between Brentford and Liverpool. Brentford has done an excellent job and as I said, if Liverpool ever were trying to implement Moneyball tactics then they went about it the wrong way.

The reason the baseball team from Moneyball was seen as so successful was because they managed to win the league by trading for guys that had lower market values, but statistically as individuals they supported an overall strategy for the team to be more competitive for each dollar spent. Now, baseball has a salary cap and a draft system like most North American sports and this is designed to ensure that each team has a reasonable chance of competing with good coaching and management. Baseball is weird though because it allows teams to pay fines if they exceed the cap, essentially allowing and encouraging the teams like the Yankees who have a bigger fan base and profits(they have their own tv channel) to use their capital to out-compete the smaller teams.

Is it such a weird thing that draft system almost like a communist system for sports yet somehow in America land of capitalism and terrible goalkeepers

 

[loooweee]

I remember this game when Utd played 100 mph football and Bayern couldn't get near them for 45 minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/8604742.stm
Like you said standard fayre in England but you can see how it would have worked for a spell for Klopp until teams adapted, question is did Dortmund have a plan B?

Seeing that Gibson on the scoresheet, I hope he turns it around with his luck at everton

 

[Khalekan]

"Gegenpressen" is the new "tiki taka": i.e proof that the person who uses it seriously in any discussion of football is a complete tosser.

And he spends too much time on FIFA

 

[boris]

I looked up this moneyball idea to get a better grasp of it. Is it essentially buy low sell high, and try to buy below the market value? Because unless I'm missing something, that's what every club tries to do?

Yep, it's also the exact opposite of what the RS did do.

Did the yanks by anyone who turned out to fit that criteria??

I assume Suarez, if he was bought under there watch. Anyone else??

 

[Tramps_mate]

#NeverForget

That is hilarious!!

 

[Sapie88]

@sageyefc

 

[LAToffee]

 

[peteblue]

It's bankruptball or perhaps wastrelball.

Buyingshyteball.......

 

[zirc]

I love the way they keep saying they can't compete financially with Chelsea and Man C, while forgetting they've spent an absolute fortune recently.

They're happy to blame anything but their own ineptitude on their failures. They also (bizarrely) believe the refs and the media are against them.

 

[DrEFC]

Don't we have bookmarks on this thread so I can revisit Crystanbul as it played out on the fora?

 

[zirc]

He's funny but there's no excuse for a fella with tits that big wearin a shirt that tight.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

What is it with kopite lardy's and clobber that's far too small for them?

 

[davek]

The adulation for that dog Sakho says it all about where they are right now. He's a cult hero. Fine by me. It used to be goal scoring machines they worshipped, now it's an ungainly galoot who falls over his own feet. Lol.

 

[paultheblue]

It will nice for them tomorrow to get an early look at next years players

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

The adulation for that dog Sakho says it all about where they are right now. He's a cult hero. Fine y me. It used to be goal scoring machines they worshipped, now it's an ungainly galoot who falls over his own feet. Lol.

And a 5 year extension to boot lollollol