In this panel, panelists Chris Anderson, Paul Carr, Gabriele Marcotti, Devin Pleuler, and Blake Wooster share their thoughts on how soccer has started to integrate analytical tools to help determine a club’s or individual player’s efficiency. These analytical tools have been adapted from other sports and are now used to determine data such as shots on goal, possession percentage, and number of tackles. With soccer clubs now using analytics and hiring analyst to help reform clubs and their tactics, soccer is beginning to go in a direction it has resisted for years. One of the biggest topics discussed by the panelists was the use of analytical data to formulate an expected goal rate for clubs to use. This idea was both criticized and praised
