How to Win the Premier League - The Inside Story of Football's Data Revolution

How to Win the Premier League'' gives you three books for the price of one: a book about all of the silly inefficiencies plaguing European football, a book about what it''s like to be empowered to use outside-the-box thinking to help turn your boyhood club into the best team in the world, and a book about how football actually works. If he really wanted to, Ian could easily put me out of a job.''>

About the author

Ian Graham is the founder of sports advisory business Ludonautics, where he develops statistical tools for the prediction of football matches and the performance analysis of players. He is one of the original architects of the data revolution that has swept through football.

Between 2012 and 2023, Ian worked for Liverpool FC as Director of Research and built the first in-house analytics department in the Premier League. He was previously head of football research at Decision Technology. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Graham
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9781804950302
• ISBN: 978-1-80495-030-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Liverpool, SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer, SPORTS & RECREATION / Coaching / Soccer, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, Sports teams and clubs, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), c 2010 to c 2019, Sporting events & management, c 2020 to c 2029, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Analytics