Mike Treacy

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

Whilst Lionel Messi may be making over $20 million in salary, his salary cap charge as a designated player is going to be much lower than that.

It could be $750,000.

There's a salary cap charge based on these roster designations.

So every slot has a dollar charge associated with it.

So...

You have to work within that framework of what is the charge for each player and your finite amount of capital you're allowed to spend.

Got it.

I'll tell you a story about when I first started building models for AFC Bournemouth back in the Premier League in 2016.

I had no idea where I could find the data.

And so I went on Upwork.

And I posted an ad and I just said, I need a developer who has worked with European football bettors.

And a gentleman named Dimitri in Ukraine replied to me and he said, yeah, I've worked with many professional bettors.

And I said, give me all the data that you can find.

And so it was very skunk works, but Dimitri was able to find a way for me to get access to all of the on-ball data.

across the world at the time to start building my models.

So it's varied throughout the years, but the

most prevalent generic data out there is, is on ball data and on ball data.

If you're just to put on your Excel hat and think about what it looks like in an Excel spreadsheet has every single event tagged.

So you have, it just goes down a series of events, pass, pass, pass, dribble, shot, goal, pass, pass, dribble, tackle.

It has the event.

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