Shaw, who was born in Manchester and moved to Scotland at the age of nine, graduated with a first in physics from Imperial College London before completing his PhD in astrophysics from Cambridge in 2006.
After that he conducted postdoctoral research at McGill and Yale Universities, ahead of a move to Winton Capital Management in Hammersmith, London, in 2012, where he worked for a £30bn hedge fund.
From 2014 to 2019, Shaw was Head of Statistics and Model Development for the Treasury and for the past three-and-a-half years he’s worked for the Harvard Sports Analytics Lab.
But above all, the question is "Can he do it on a wet windy night at Stoke?"
Exactly....whatever those scruffy cnuts stole via the data breach will no longer be of relevance, if it was just a list of target names with their stats etcGood signing. The secret is what to measure and how to apply the data? When Liverpool spoke of moneyball it seems to have included hacking City's database and poaching performance staff. "Football is Fixed" may well have been right about City having people not acting in the Clubs best interests and action was taken.
We have already seen improvements from signing Mangala, Fernando and Bony back in the day to Torres, Dias and Ake this year. Any Liverpool advantage Liverpool gained from past information has gone. None of their recent signings have made a big impact on heir performance.
The key is the City team are employed by CFG and will include all member and associated clubs in standard measures and analysis to add to local feet on the ground through traditional scouting. Other clubs have woken up to the fact and having failed to make breach of FFP charges stick, will be playing catch up when it comes to identifying and coaching the best new talent.
I've heard a little something that has mentioned 'Rag' but I'm told he isn't 'tribal' - like the rest of us on here!TBF to him, he doesn't sound like the 'typical City' type.
Its on side 4 of Topagraphic oceans by Yes :-)Just what is 'spatiotemporal data'?