AI scouting, the future and Díaz
AI scouting, the future and Díaz
Very topical, we are going to talk about transfers.
Now you all know I think Tottenham should have a research and development department and that Tottenham should be innovative, not follow the crowd.
Tottenham should be at the head of a new wave, not trying to climb about after the wave has crashed.
You know I believe we should be using psychologists to mentally analyse potential transfer purchases, which can be done first with all the scouting footage.
You all know I feel a body language expert should view performances and all communication with players and agents to read the truth and not what is being said.
Well with the Metaverse (Virtual Reality world) coming it will only grow and that inspires me to think how this could be applied to transfers.
Will we come to a time when we can input a players details into a computer and the Artificial Intelligence player then plays out a game in our colours.
It would take a lot of variables, but if your psychologist and body language expert know how an individual might react, then you could predict to a certain extent how he would play in given situations.
If you can see how a player might perform in your system in one of your actual matches, it would benefit you in deciding who to buy.
Admittedly this is some way into the future, but nothing happens until someone thinks of something and works to put it into practice.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fairly new phenomenon being embraced in all areas of the real world.
You evaluate how to construct o model and then work on improving it.
It is entirely possible to write a program that produces a list of player that meet certain data criteria, however many evaluation points you feed into it.
Virtual reality is clearly the next step.
If you watch NCIS, they frequently have computer generated predictions of what might have happened from limited data. now reason that can't be applied to football and assessment of player reactions.
It may sound like FIFA manager but I have never played one of these games in my life, wrong era for me, but adapting ideas is how we progress.
Scouting players is so important we should be doing everything we can to get it right more often than we do.
This is what I say about weekly psychology coaching sessions to improve players mentally.
I am damn sure if we had already introduced this successfully we would have had greater pull this transfer window, far greater.
It's a no-brainer for me.
We'd be the number one club for any player to go to who wants to be the best they can be, currently it is hit and miss for a player in any club.
First objective is to identify the aims and objectives of an AI system.
Then look beyond what is done now, carry out experiments based on our system methodologies to seek improvements.
Critically evaluate our findings and detail a model and how we would implement it.
Then it is a question of further evaluating it and improving it.
Such a system you would first 'paper trade' with.
That's a betting term meaning you don't use your money, you just follow your system to see if it works over a given period or whether it needs adjustment.
To do this and get accurate results, you would 'test' on your own players.
They would be the model you build your system around.
It would be fascinating to see how a predicted game and an actual game went for individual players.
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is a machine learning algorithm that is modelled on the neural structure of the human brain.
Much like humans, the network also learns from experience.
Put simply the network architecture would have 3 layers, an set input layer, a layer you can change and an output layer (the result of layers one and two).
If you look-up Maind and Wankar 2014 you'll find their work and more in-depth discussion on this.
Over time and with greater data that gap would close and when it has to a point where you can use it on external players, you have a whole new world of opportunity ahead of you.
It is also perfectly possible now to write a program that would evaluate a player financially and produce a figure a player is actually worth (according to your algorithm) and not what a selling club are asking.
They ask what it costs them to replace a player, not what a player is actually worth.
He is worth more to them than he is to someone else, hence transfer negotiations.
Well we'll leave that bit for today or you'll all be reading for ages.
It is a topic I can only scratch the surface with, plant a seed, you can think and imagine the possibilities.
What else shall we impart to you today?
Jorge Mendes.
I warned you last summer that we do not want to get involved with him, he is only interested in himself.
Once he gets his claws into a club, then it's a question of moving his own clients around his clubs so he gets fees from both clubs and the players.
I reported to you that Medes was working for Porto...
They needed to raise money by the end of the month.
When a player is sold, regardless of whether it is in instalment payments, the total fee goes straight into the accounts.
He is a high class player so Spurs went after him and agreed a deal.
Now you can do a bit of maths, two and two!
Mendes suggested to Porto he dealt with the Díaz transfer.
Liverpool, and I have to be careful how I say this, somehow seemed to know what we had agreed with ALL parties...
An offer matching ours came in and you know the rest.
Now, it doesn't take Einstein to work out that maybe, just maybe, agents fees might be involved here or it was pure coincidence!
I will say no more.
Quite why a certain journalist suggested it would be good for Spurs if he became involved, goodness knows, clearly knows little about agents, nobody must have told him in his WhatsApp group.
Jorge Mendes is bad news and certainly was for us.
You have had the mail and the Athletic put their twist on this.
Enjoy your day folks
COYS
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