Charles Reep

[thanetbee]

Brentford noted as the first club of “Charles Reep” the godfather of footie analysis.
No mention of his role. Fascinating that it all started here!

VHS tapes sent to the South Pacific - how football's data boom began

Richard Pollard was the first person to apply computer analysis to football data. His pioneering work helped shape the busy modern game.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[wanderer paul]

It’s all on his wiki page.

Charles Reep - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[vcmazz]

It'll never work. You need to spend top money on players in their late 20's/early 30's who have been there and done it to have any chance of success. No ambition. Didn't want to go up. Warbs in!

 

[Mark Bonner]

really enjoyed that article. Amazing that we were first to use data analysis in the ealry 1900s given our data-led reputation today.

 

[Silly Chip]

Incredible person given that his research would have been based on attending actual matches as opposed to today's wall to wall TV coverage of games.

 

[hairman]

It'll never work. You need to spend top money on players in their late 20's/early 30's who have been there and done it to have any chance of success. No ambition. Didn't want to go up. Warbs in!

You need two nippy wingers and a big man/little man duo up front. Anyone knows that. f*** data analysis.

 

[SydneySwansBee]

This has no doubt been posted before. Charles Reep gets a big mention in this book of the development of football tactics over the history of the game.

Inverting the Pyramid

 

[GlasgowBee]

Bloody frequentist...be Bayesian (but not necessarily Ashley)

 

[Mikey Bee]

So we planted the seeds of data analysis at the club back in 1951, eh?

It took 70 years but it just goes to show that you Reep what you sow...

 

[JANORAK]

You need two nippy wingers and a big man/little man duo up front. Anyone knows that. f*** data analysis.

But you counter that with a couple of clogging dockers at full back, and a pair of centre halves built like Eddystone Lighthouse….

 

[Jay Bee]

I know there are several fans of cartoonist David Squires around here.

You can see his take on Charles Reep's contribution to football history in his book "The Illustrated History of football: Hall of Fame"

You can see the intro and some of the cartoon here

The Illustrated History of Football

‘A fresh look at the beautiful game’ - NMEWelcome back to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires.Most football fans can only dream of pulling on the shirt of their favourite team and running out in front of thousands of adoring fans. Pitch invaders aside, few of us get to experience...

books.google.co.uk

Will share the rest from the book later if this is allowed, otherwise it's an excellent purchase.

 

[OhBeehave]

Article about him on the BBC from yesterday.

Charles Reep: The military accountant who brought data analysis to English game

British football analysis began in a drafty hut on a military airfield 90 years ago, driven by one pioneering but misunderstood man.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[GABS]

What happened to the Bees data driven approach between Reep's departure and Benham's arrival then? The wilderness decades (almost century!) it seems ?

 

[Ken_Hom's_Wok]

What happened to the Bees data driven approach between Reep's departure and Benham's arrival then? The wilderness decades (almost century!) it seems ?

Butcher reintroduced it i recall, using the well regarded soccerbase website to make our signings. His data driven approach was excellent in unearthing new and more humiliating ways to lose each week