8 Best Articles on Sports Analytics

The most useful articles on sports analytics from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.

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Top 5 Sports Analytics Articles

At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on sports analytics by Refind users in 2023 so far.

  1. Rasmus Ankersen: How to outthink your competition
  2. How data, not humans, run this Danish football club
  3. Why Nike selected a tech executive as its next CEO
  4. The End of the Beautiful Game? How the Analytics Revolution Is Changing Soccer
  5. The Curious Have Won

Videos

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Short Articles

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Long Articles

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Publications

We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Sports Analytics, including:

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Literary Hub

A daily literary website highlighting the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and criticism.

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Demis Hassabis

Co-founder & CEO Google DeepMind - working on AGI. Trying to understand the fundamental nature of reality. Also revolutionising drug discovery @IsomorphicLabs

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De Correspondent

📩Schrijf je in voor de proefmail en ontvang elke zaterdag een gratis artikel van De Correspondent in je inbox: http://decorrespondent.nl/proefmail

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Sportico

Sportico is a high quality digital content company providing sports industry breaking news, data, information, strategies, leadership and insight.

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