The League Two club are only the second English side to partner with Jamestown Analytics, an offshoot of Brighton owner Tony Bloom’s sports gambling firm Starlizard. The other is the Seagulls themselves, whose impressive record in the transfer market is partly down to the edge that Jamestown’s complex algorithms have given them in recruitment. “We’re very early on that journey with Jamestown but we’re excited about it,” Grimsby CEO Polly Bancroft tells i from her office at Blundell Park. “It’s a big opportunity for us to get a competitive advantage over our rivals.”It is, at first glance, a strange place to launch a lower league data revolution. “Our ambitions are to climb to through the leagues and we don’t want to put a cap on it either.

Source: Metro November 16, 2024 00:31 UTC