Paul Power, an AI scientist at STATS, is talking about a technique called ‘ghosting’. In layman’s terms, this involves feeding data in at one end and the computer learning how a football team would respond in any given scenario. You can adjust the settings to reveal what a hypothetical ‘average’ team would do, or discover how a really good team side – with really good players – would react. And, in theory, you can compare it to your club’s youth players.
