Sarah Rudd

Sarah Rudd is one of the early pioneers of sports analytics applied to soccer.[1] In 2011, Rudd developed a method, based on Markov Chains, for evaluating the performance of players.[2] This method was later adopted by several other companies, academics and bloggers to evaluate actions from soccer event data[3].

Soon after presenting her work, Rudd worked for startup StatsDNA which was acquired by Arsenal FC in 2013.[4] She is currently head of Analytics and Software Development at the Arsenal FC Data Analytics group. Her work is reported to have been highly influential within the club.[5]

References
  1. Sumpter, David (2016). Soccermatics. Bloomsbury.
  2. Rudd, Sarah (2011). "A framework for tactical analysis and individual offensive production assessment in soccer using Markov chains". New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports.
  3. Sumpter, David (18 September 2019). "Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician?". Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  4. Andrew Allen (2017-06-13). "VIDEO: Arsenal-owned StatDNA on why football data matters". Arseblog News - the Arsenal news site. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  5. Smith, Rory (2017-02-03). "How Arsenal and Arsène Wenger Bought Into Analytics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
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