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Keeping score: Has Premier League ceded too much power to maths geeks?
As data and AI remake the league Asia adores, fans can only hope the analytics revolution does not rob the game of its romance.
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This summer, alongside the familiar bidding wars for star players, the quieter contest has been over the growing influence of data teams.
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The world’s most-followed domestic football league returns this weekend, supercharged by data analytics like never before.
The English Premier League (EPL), Singapore and much of Asia’s favourite sports league, may not be the Major League Baseball (MLB) or the National Basketball Association (NBA), where big data has long reigned and maths whizzes, who could just as easily be running algorithms at Goldman Sachs, shape everything from recruitment to in-game tactics. But it is by no means a bystander in this numbers revolution.
