Meanwhile, Liverpool's owners, the Fenway Sports Group, are keeping to their data-based Moneyball philosophies by appointing Ian Graham, who has a PhD in biological physics from Cardiff University, as their director of research to make the best use of all the statistics that now emerge from matches and training.
I could find no record of his thesis. I have no doubt it was a pile of shit however. This cunt then worked with a research/consultancy company called decision technology.
This is their football predictor software http://www.dectech.co.uk/football_sites/football_dectech/index.php. Go have a play around, and dear god I don't know what to say. It's like shit infused with piss.
And in 2008 he published this paper on trying to get his predictions to match up with William Hill's odds. http://www.dectech.org/docs/academicPapers/GrahamStott_2008_PredictingBookmakerOdds.pdf.
So this club, is now basically making it's decisions based on a douche who is trying to model the odds of a bookmaker. 1. Why the fuck would you do this. 2. Why the fuck wouldn't you just go to willhill.com and use the odds calculated by proper mathematicians (which still don't work). 3. We're fucking doomed.