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The Football Department at Leeds United is working to create bespoke intelligence to enhance player recruitment and game analysis. We are looking for individuals who use their intellectual curiosity to build models that enhance the way we describe and predict player and team performance.
Main Responsibilities:
- Design intelligent ways to use data, through modelling to understand and inform the technical and tactical requirements of football for both individual and game analysis.
- Leverage bespoke, internal data to build supervised models to detect key technical and tactical aspects of the game.
- Utilising concepts such as pitch control to create features for both on-ball and off-ball actions to improve our player evaluation models.
- Create features from synchronised event-tracking data that can evaluate team performance relevant to the game phase.
- Develop, validate, automate and monitor quantitative models using statistics, machine learning, optimization, and simulation