Here is a precis of Soccernomics by Kuper and Szymanski with their ‘rules’ for a successful Moneyball approach. 1. Net wage spend is more important than net transfer spend (pp. 14-21) 2. Don’t needlessly splash out on new players or sell old ones when you take over a club – the New Manager Syndrome (pp. 21-22) 3. Don’t recruit players who impressed at international tournaments: they’re likely to be overvalued and past performance is no indication of future performance, especially when they’re playing with a different team (pp. 22-24) – there are different incentives and a different tactical set-up at tournaments, and it’s a super small sample size. 4. Some nationalities are overrated, like Holland, Brazil, and England (pp. 24-25) 5. Sell your players at the right time: when they’re around 30 years old, goalkeepers aside (p. 29) 6. Use the wisdom of crowds: ask all your scouts and a Director of Football if you have one (pp. 43-44) 7. Buy players in their early twenties, which avoids the problems with not developing properly, and means previous statistics have greater value (pp. 45-47) 8. Centre-forwards cost more than they should (p. 47) 9. Sell any player if a club offers more than they are worth and try to replace them before they are sold (pp. 48-49) 10. Don’t buy players if you don’t need to: develop a youth network and try to develop your own players (pp. 49-51) Southampton have been a good model for this. Brentford seem to be up to speed and QPR will probably be adopting this philosophy next season.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 10:27:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 10:46:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 10:51:00	bobby osborne
Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 11:29:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 12:09:00	Nigel Brooks
Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 12:19:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 12:25:00	Will Watson
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 12:43:00	Nigel Brooks
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 13:13:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 13:32:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 13:46:00	Bob Guyett
Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 13:44:00	bobby osborne
Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 13:47:00	Bob Guyett
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 14:02:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 14:39:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford in the Playoffs	05/05/15 17:12:00	R Rees Williams
Moneyball	05/05/15 22:33:00	Andrew OSullivan
Re:Moneyball	06/05/15 08:19:00	Paul Corcoran
Re:Re:Moneyball	06/05/15 09:25:00	bobby osborne

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