Skip to Main Content

Redefining Technical Scouting

For over a decade, recruitment analysts have been using data to assess prospects through the lens of their primary position. Edge Recruitment introduces a new method of assessing players, applying multiple AI-powered models to profile players based on their role in a team.

SPEAK TO AN EXPERT

Edge RECRUITMENT

Contextual Recruitment Analysis

Edge Recruitment allows a technical scouting department to evaluate recruitment prospects within a wider team style – grouping prospects together based on the key tendencies and characteristics required to fulfil each role within their game model.

By defining roles, recruitment analysts can directly compare players who fit the parameters of each role more objectively. Each role has been defined through applying five unique AI models, combining:

  • A player’s spatial tendencies
  • Contributions to different phases of play
  • Possession involvement
  • Distribution
  • Shooting tendencies

SPEAK WITH OUR TEAM 

Edge RECRUITMENT

Team Overview

A crucial element of the recruitment process is identifying the playing styles being adopted by teams in key markets, in addition to the on-field roles being performed by each player.

Edge Recruitment’s Team Overview enables you to quickly identify a team’s style and their most influential roles, with a detailed breakdown of how each player is performing in their role during the season.

FIND OUT MORE 

Edge RECRUITMENT

Role Breakdown

Edge Recruitment incorporates 19 different role types all over the pitch. The Role Breakdown module provides a detailed analysis of each role and their influence within the overall performance of every team who share your own playing style.

  • Within each team, recruitment analysts can immediately identify the most influential players featuring in key roles.
  • The effectiveness of each player’s on-the-ball actions is quantified using a Possession Value (PV) model, highlighting which of their events increase, or decrease, their team’s chances of scoring.
  • Every player is assigned a net PV rating, which highlights standout players who contribute the most progressive actions, in addition to players recording low regressive actions.

SPEAK TO AN EXPERT

Edge RECRUITMENT

Role Discovery

Using powerful role detection AI-modelling, Edge Recruitment can automatically identify player targets fitting your specific role types, across different leagues and competitions.

  • Players fitting key role criteria can be compared from a stylistic perspective to players already at the club, to help identify like-for-like replacements.
  • Additional biographical and performance filters can be applied to further narrow results based on the club’s recruitment profile.
  • All players fitting the role criteria are plotted on a scatter graph. Specific players can also be compared, to establish which targets are the closest stylistic fit to the players in the current squad.

GET IN TOUCH

Get Access to Edge Recruitment

Find out how Stats Perform’s pioneering recruitment platform can help you quickly identify the player targets who are the best fit for your team.

SPEAK TO AN EXPERT