Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022 Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them. This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities who zealously believed in its potential to transform the game. Central to this cast is Chris Anderson, an academic with no experience in football, who saw data as an opportunity to fundamentally change a sport that did not think it could be changed. His aim: to infiltrate the strange, insular world of professional football by establishing a club whose entire DNA could be built around data. Expected Goals charts his remarkable journey into the heart of the modern game and reveals how clubs across the world, from Liverpool to Leipzig and Brentford to Bayern Munich, began to see how data could help them unearth new players, define radical tactics and plot their path to glory.

Expected Goals: The story of how data conquered football and changed the game forever

Business & Money

Smith, Rory

Economics

Mudlark

Rock and his friends know the perfect place to go to recover from a devastating month of events: Burning Man. But they get much more than they bargained for--and there is no time for recovery, just redemption. There in the desert of Nevada, Rock meets Paul--the Apostle Paul, who was never allowed to die. Paul has a message for Rock that is at once terrifying and thrilling. Rock is being targeted for assassination by a clandestine religious group that desperately wants him gone. Why? Because Rock is the last living descendant of Jesus Christ.Fans of Dan Brown's work, most notably The Da Vinci Code, will love Rory Smith's Burning Man. By the last page, fiction will feel all too real, and our history, belief systems, and religions will be challenged.

Burning Man

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Outskirts Press

Devil In The Metal is a fast-paced mystery thriller set in the world of popular music. Three terrifying ritual murders grip L.A. Across the country, in Eastern Long Island, a young man with an uncertain past and his savvy but cautious lawyer friend are caught up in the world of Heavy Metal madness as they probe the deadly secrets of a small town and the evil world of a Satanic rock star. Rory Smith knows the music business well, and his scenes are from today's headlines. The shocking, surprising finale will stun you.

Devil In The Metal

Brompton Pr

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