Mike Treacy

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Odd Lots · Why Soccer Analytics Works Like Volatility Arbitrage Trading · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

I think a lot of clubs look at it from two perspectives.

I don't think there's this...

old-school scouts versus the data guy mentality.

I think it's very collaborative.

I think what a lot of clubs do is they have an individual scout who will go watch a player and give his assessment and his rating, and then they will have their own internal model with data, and they will look at the deltas between those two different models.

And if something seems off, you often have collaboration between

the data person and the scout and they figure out who's right, who's wrong.

And then to your point about hustle, let's call it.

There are Swiss army knife ways to, to quantify that in, in soccer, in certain instances, if you look at game state, say the game state, you know, when game state is essentially zero, zero,

plus one, minus one, plus two, minus two, plus three, minus three.

And so say you're in a plus three, minus three game state and win probability for one team is 98%.

You can manipulate the data and only look at how players are performing in that game state.

You're out of the game.

Are you still competing?

Do you still care?

Are you in the right position?

Now that may not align with the old school scout

saying, you know, this guy has grit.

But again, there's Swiss army knife ways to give some type of indication.

You know, I like to say soccer data creates questions.

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