Data-Driven Football Strategy Formation and Its Evolution Over The Years
                     DATA-DRIVEN FOOTBALL 
STRATEGY FORMATION 
AND ITS EVOLUTION 
OVER THE YEARS
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No matter how advances the science may be Rafael Benitez once poured in hours 
of his time watching the footage to prepare for matches. With an endless amount 
of footage on the attacking style, individual players playing style, or their defense 
strategy everything could be caught on camera to be studied by the coaches and 
players to curate their strategy.
In the past, coaches went one step further as well and even scanned the scouting 
reports and analysts' assessments of players and teams to formulate strategy. 
Everything that could give a good assessment of the opponents was assessed 
properly to figure out the weakness and who would be the point of interest. Thus 
leaving them with pages and pages of assessments from multiple matches and 
multiple competitions
Later on the field, players on the other hand would be given orders with regards 
to their position and any particular role they need to perform. As per the role, the 
players would be briefed on the strategy that the team would follow for example 
the left-back would be offered an abridged version of the observations on the 
attacking side from the right, the right-back on the other hand would be explained 
about the opponents playing from the left.
In this 15-minute discussion, they would formulate the entire strategy based on 
the clip, and in the end, Benitez would chalk out his plan which would be concise 
and to the point as players would pay attention for a few minutes only. Thus all 
that research would have to be broken down to just a few lines in the end.
Benitez was just an example other 
coaches followed the same strategy 
making slight changes in their strategy 
for some would choose a defense-centric 
approach and others attacking one. All 
this just gave way to 22 players who 
would in the end just give the ball away 
and try to get it back in the hopes to score 
and maintaining a lead. Over the years 
while the way Football is played has 
stayed the same but the strategy 
formation process has undergone a 
significant change.
The clubs that are successful today have entered the digital transformation era, 
with a more data-empowered approach from coaches and staff as well. First came 
the addition of data analysts but they were not given the full rights to take part in 
the strategy-making until the industry underwent a huge change and welcomed 
football data and realized the potential of the data to give the department an 
important seat at the table. Today with data, teams are not just winning matches 
but use that for recruitment as well, Draft phases and predicting injuries so that 
they can be avoided.
Further, the clubs then realized another important revelation that it was not just 
data but quality data effectively used to draw insights that would result in 
success. This strategy has offered a competitive edge to a few teams and helped a 
few clubs bag the title year after year. Later on, data resources exploded with 
wearable technology, even the NFL players were fitted with devices in their 
helmets to create a database and use that to prevent injuries in the long run and 
use that as a matrix for players’ performance as well.
Clubs soon after used data to increase 
revenue by using the power of data to lure 
in audience and enhance their experience 
in the stadium. Where once the ticket sales 
and attendance were dwindling as well data 
helped turn that around to lure in more 
spectators into the stadium by analyzing 
their behaviour over the course of time and 
then augmenting that experience with 
better tech and improved use of data in the 
technology-savvy world. The sports team 
hence underwent a complete change with 
the advent of data and coaches changed the 
way they approached the strategy-making 
process.
Thus giving rise to football data providers who had access to football API which 
could be used by the clubs in any way they desired, Data Sports Group has set 
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