Sam Gregory

And we do the same thing.

So

On the team side, they don't see a two-week gap in the data where they've lost that player to us.

So there's a lot of collaboration between what we do at the national teams and what the clubs are doing.

You're kind of giving them a Carfax report.

Yeah, so, I mean, we have a team at U.S.

Soccer who the experience ranges from people who are really hardcore on the data engineering side who are more kind of behind the computer screen to data analysts who are more comfortable having a conversation with a coach who can ask those questions, who might know a little bit more about the sport.

And so you have this range of people, and

Different environments want different things.

So we work, as I said, with our men's team and our women's team.

There's some reports that are the exact same, and there's some questions they ask that are completely different.

And so you work with the different coaching staffs or with the different stakeholder to figure out exactly what they want from the data to make sure you're answering questions that are relevant to their environment, that we're not giving, we're not saying this is what the men do so the women get the exact same thing.

Yeah.

And again, the worst thing that can happen in this job is that the person who's the decision maker doesn't care about what you give them, doesn't read it, doesn't take it into account.

So if you say this is the right way to do things and you go to a coach who's been in the game for 30 years and say, this is my report on how you should play.

you're not going to have very much success.

You need to understand what they are seeing, what they want to get out of the data.

And these people are curious.

I think there's this perception maybe from that one scene in Moneyball, I think, has set us back a little bit, where there's this perception of these scouts sitting around a room and saying whatever their opinions are of a player, and they don't want the data.

In my experience, maybe that was the case 20 years ago.