Analytics FC is a football podcast looking at the beautiful game in a different light. Each episode, we’re joined by a guest from the world of football analytics to talk about the ways we can use numbers, statistics and data to better understand the sport.
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Episode 45: Elliott Stapley, Sports Interactive and Football Manager
This month, we spoke to Elliott Stapley, a software engineer working on the match engine and data for Sports Interactive’s Football Manager game. During our conversation, we talked about how the Football Manager match engine works, how Sports Interactive use data benchmarking to guarantee the realism of Football Manager, and considered what Football Manager can teach us about the game in real life. You can follow Elliott on Twitter @elliott_stapley and Sports Interactive @SIgames.