Talk about sports analytics to a traditional coach and he will rubbish it with a frown. For most coaches, it’s a concept that needlessly complicates matters which can be better sorted with sporting acumen gathered through experience and intuition. At a time when most decisions are being taken on analytics based predictions, distrusting the predictability of numbers over the unpredictability of human nature in sports is like living in a state of self-denial. Whether they…
