Quote Originally Posted by WJ99mobile View Post
I've watched moneyball. Simple concept.

Football has a lot more influences from external factors than baseball. Not really quantifiable as easily.
It's not just baseball that this is used in, most American sports spend a lot of money doing this kind of thing, and they wouldn't be doing so if they didn't feel like it was giving them a benefit.
Football is starting to catch up, but there are still plenty of clubs around that aren't into this at all.

A few years ago arsenal bought up a company of football analytics called stats DNA, Liverpool have also been investing in this area. I dare say that many other clubs are also.