The Australian National Football Team General Discussion*OFFICIAL*

[NicCarBel]

Ta.

Concise, clear explanation, G.

Yep that about covers it.

It's a shitshow to calculate though, because so many variables, and I think also uses past outcomes to predict chances, etc. Hence, why I think you're on the right track about it being an AI thing.

 

[Decentric]

As a coach, I don't use Google as a pedagogical tool, I try to explain and demonstrate in the training sessions.


As to your question as to what level I coach at, I don't think that is important on this forum. I coach male players who play at a reasonable level, let's just leave it at that.

Good on you for sentence 1 - sound practice.

If it was you on a thread on new trends in gegenpressing, what you, or whomever the coach was trying to impart to players, it sounded quite sophisticated. A few years back , a few of the senior NPL clubs' players in this state, devoid of years of underage current methodology in Aus, would have struggled to comprehend it.

Credit to you for coaching! The more people coaching and having accreditation the better for the entire football scene in Aus - and for national team success.

It was massive objective of the Baan/Berger/Abrahms coaching eras - to improve coach education in Aus and to spread it as widely as possible.

 

[Decentric]

Yep that about covers it.

It's a shitshow to calculate though, because so many variables, and I think also uses past outcomes to predict chances, etc. Hence, why I think you're on the right track about it being an AI thing.

I'm guessing it is AI.

There must be a bit that is AI. On TV when I see the half time and full time stats, they appear to be dodgy.

When I do my own stats it can sometimes involve 3- 4 replays to determine who has won a 1v1 heading duel, or whether a pass was completed. This can take some time. Impossible to do accurately in live time accurately like the TV has immediately. With Socceroo games against Japan and Saudi, I was getting 6-8% differences in possession over whole games compared to the TV coverage.

After one Socceroo game early in Geria's resurgent Socceroo career, off forum a person quoted with Melb Vic he only won 2 out of 6 heading 1v1 duels contested in the next AL match.

When I watched a replay, I wouldn't have considered any of them to be defined as 1v1 duels. Players, Geria and his supposed opponents, were too far from each other in criteria I use to determine a 1v1 heading contest every time he headed a ball.

Shots at goal and corners are easier to determine in live time.