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7 Reader Comments    1. Similar or same system Used in the
premiership (soccer) for a while.     1508 posts | registered
2. This kind of analytic software sounds scary but its actually
very very simple. You just point it to a number of variables a
large amount of data and a prediction field and it will figure
out the prediction algorithm or model more or less by itself.
And it is completely normal that only a couple of the input
fields actually influence the output.      The tricky part is in
getting good input data. That takes forever.     5306 posts |
registered   3. I would say that watching the player
performance, his velocity over the field, how long he is down
before he gets up after a play, watching for limps and stressed
limbs would be what I woul