[toyg]

Thanks so much for your work and for your awesome suggestions!

My family (everyone except me, lol) sort-of runs an amateur football club, so I have some second-hand knowledge of that world (at least in Italy). They tell me that systematic, professional and data-driven approaches are incredibly scarce but very effective. It's a system that still runs on personal networks and a lot of outdated knowledge and "magic", not unlike the baseball world described in Moneyball [1]. As you said it's early days, but still, most coaches under 40 now bring a tablet with them on the bench, and not to take funny pictures.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0393324818/ref=as_li_ss_t...

[hhamil]

What your family says is true, but "systematic, professional, and data-driven" packages that are appealing to semi-pro or amateur clubs tend to be expensive. To further complicate things, each club will insist that certain specific events be tracked in order to verify that their gameplan is being implemented, which leads to "custom" data that are actually a tagged composite of basic data points.

By the way, thanks for the pull requests on the client. Developing the client and the API backend has been a learning experience at every step, so I appreciate contributions from experienced developers.